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1 online resource (229 pages) |
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Cover; War, Identity and the Liberal State; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Glossary of military terminology and acronyms; Basic rank structure of the British Armed Forces; Introduction: The geopolitics of the everyday in the British Armed Forces; "In the flesh": an introductory tale; War, identity and the liberal state; Researching the geopolitics of the everyday: an invitation to fieldwork; Theorising the geopolitics of the everyday: from experience to performance; Visualising intra-activity; Outline of the book |
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1 Materialising identity and the British warfare stateBritish society must be defended; Mind the gap; Support the troops; This green and pleasant land; Securing the peace; Welfare state, warfare state; For Queen and country?; A man's duty?; 2 Intimacies of war and gender: the politics of women's bodies in war; Gender-in-the-making; The biopolitics of gender and the war on terror; Just warriors and beautiful souls; Beautiful bodies; Natural born killers?; Sexy bodies; Reproductive bodies; Weak and leaky bodies; Deploying beautiful souls; The body resists |
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3 Forbidden intimacies: rethinking military masculinities through heteronormativity and desireA brief history of sexuality in the British military; Here and queer; Heteronormativity and the limits of tolerance; Heterosexual potency; Military masculinities, homoeroticism and desire; Military masculinities and the geopolitics of desire; 4 Imperial encounters and the structural privileging of whiteness; Protectors of the realm; Who are the "ethnics"?; Political (in)correctness?; Martial races; The "war on terror"; Racisms -- old and new; Concluding thoughts -- the march of progress?; Notes |
| Summary |
This book critically examines the significance of gender, race and sexuality to wars waged by liberal states. Drawing on original field-research with British soldiers, it offers insights into how their everyday experiences are shaped by, and shape, a politics of gender, race and sexuality that not only underpins power relations in the military, but the geopolitics of wars waged by liberal states. Linking the politics of daily life to the international is an intervention into international relations (IR) and security studies because instead of overlooking the politics of the everyday, this b |
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Great Britain. Army -- Military life
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Great Britain. Army fast |
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Sociology, Military -- Great Britain
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Soldiers -- Great Britain -- Attitudes
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Women soldiers -- Great Britain -- Social conditions
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Sex role -- Great Britain
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Masculinity -- Great Britain
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Geopolitics.
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geopolitics.
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Armed Forces -- Military life
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Geopolitics
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Masculinity
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Race relations
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Sex role
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Sociology, Military
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Soldiers -- Attitudes
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Great Britain -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007006281
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Great Britain
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135016821 |
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1135016828 |
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