ISBN:
9781138810693
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (249 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
War, Politics and Experience
Parallel Title:
Print version Masquerades of War
DDC:
303.6/6
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This collection explores the concepts and practices of masquerade as they apply to concepts and practices of war.The contributors insist that masquerades are everyday aspects of the politics, praxis, and experiences of war, while also discovering that finding masquerades and tracing how they work with war is hardly simple. With a range of theories, innovative methodologies, and contextual binoculars, masquerade emerges as a layered and complex phenomenon. It can appear as state deception, lie, or camouflage, as in the population-centric American warfare in Iraq that was sold as good for the lo
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: All those masquerades and wars; PART I Genres of masquerade; 1 The armour of Hector: From the mediation of violence to its masquerade; 2 'Seems he a dove?': The masquerades of conscientious objection; 3 Drawing the line between violence and non-violence in Gandhi and Fanon: Deceits and conceits; 4 The foundational masquerade: Security as sociology of death; PART II International theaters of war and masquerade
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Masquerading Maoists and the politics of securitization in India6 Syrian masquerades of war; 7 The fangs behind the mask: Everyday life in wartime Chechnya; 8 Masquerading genocide in Patricia McCormick's Never Fall Down: Rehearsing, restaging, remembering, and critiquing Pol Pot time; 9 Pain as masquerades/Masquerades as pain; PART III How the West masquerades war; 10 Enlisting Madison Avenue: Contemporary war masquerading as a communication enterprise; 11 Hiding in the light: Drawings of arms fairs
Description / Table of Contents:
12 Research in the rape capital of the world: Multiple masquerades - a (semi) fictional account13 TerrorWars: Boston/Iraq; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
