1 Introduction: Paramilitarization and the globalization of paramilitary culture
Part 1 Projecting the post-heoric warrior in new popular cultural forms
2 Techniques of empathy and embodiment in the paramilitary film: Learning from The Hurt Locker
3 Press X to pay respects: Evolving depictions of war in Call of Duty and Battlefield
4 Re-narrating the paramilitary in the Colombian conflict: Examining the Medellin memory museum
Part 2 Projecting the paramilitary warrior in practices of social memory
5 The social memory of the North Vietnamese soldier in Vietnam and United States popular culture
6 From nationalization to Islamization of the Ottoman Soldier at the Canakkale/Gallipoli WWI Battlefields
7 The Danish soldier reimagined: Civil religion and religion of the self in the post-9/11 era
Part 3 Paramilitary, organisations and the advancement of paramilitary culture
8 Profession and identity: Warriors in the 21st Century
9 The poetics of paramilitarization: Hizbollah and the Shade of Resistance in Southern Lebanon
10 Firefights and the performance of occupational masculinity during downtime.