Christine Sylvester

Provides a new theoretical lens for feminists to understand war, security studies and international relations.

Contributions from International Relations and Feminist Analysis

War as Experience

Dennis Clark Pirages

Dennis C. Piraces

This book brings together a collection of essays that focus on the various dimensions of this transformation and prospects for future changes. The book begins with an analytical essay that offers an overview of causes of change in the global political economy.

Transformations in the Global Political Economy

This book evaluates the major debates around which the discipline of international relations has developed in the light of contemporary feminist theories.

Feminist Theory and International Relations in a Postmodern Era

Sylvester C

An Unfinished Journey

Feminist International Relations

This edited collection explores aspects of contemporary war that affect average people –physically, emotionally, and ethically through activities ranging from combat to television viewing. The aim of this work is to supplement the usual emphasis on strategic and national issues of war in the interest of theorizing aspects of war from the point of view of individual experience, be the individual a combatant, a casualty, a supporter, opponent, recorder, veteran, distant viewer, an international lawyer, an ethicist or other intellectual. This volume presents essays that push the boundaries of war studies and war thinking, without promoting one kind of theory or methodology for studying war as experiential politics, but with an eye to exploring the possibilities and encouraging others to take up the new agenda. It includes new and challenging thinking on humanitarianism and war, new wars in the Third World, gender and war thinking, and the sense of the body within war that inspires recent UN resolutions. It also gives examples that can change our understanding of who is located where doing what with respect to war –women warriors in Sierra Leone, war survivors living with their memories, and even an artist drawing something seemingly intangible about war –the arms trade. The unique aspect of this book is its purposive pulling together of foci and theoretical and methodological perspectives from a number of disciplines on a variety of contemporary wars. Arguably, war is an activity that engages the attention, the politics, and the lives of many people. To theorize it with those lives and perspectives in mind, recognizing the political contexts of war, is long overdue. This inter-disciplinary book will be of much interest to students of war studies, critical security studies, gender studies, sociology and IR in general.

Experiencing War

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 local people, or the hidden violence Russian military forces used on each other and on local men in Chechnya. Masquerade can also be part of a people's war logic as exemplified by the Maoist movement in India. Yet masquerade can also be understood as a normal social mask that people don to foreground an identity or belief from one's cluttered repertoire in order to gain agency. Elements of masquerade can appear in texts that proclaim seemingly unequivocal positions while simultaneously yet subtly suggesting opposing positions. Masquerades of all kinds also seem ubiquitous in fieldwork research and in resistance movements in war zones. Perhaps masquerade, though, is ultimately the denial of death lurking behind the clarion call of security, a call that bolsters war by making militarized policing normal to secure populations from terrorists. These interpretations and others comprise Masquerades of War. This book will be of much interest to students of critical war studies, critical security, conflict studies and IR in general.

Masquerades of War

"Curating and Re-Curating the American Wars in Vietnam and Iraq is about looking for war knowledge in unexpected places, such as war memorials, museum exhibitions, war cemeteries, and novels and memoirs. What one finds there can contradict the prescribed understandings of a particular war or, say, endorse the tendency to treat military personnel as heroes to be thanked. Especially when 'ordinary curators' display memories of their war experiences through the objects left at memorials and graves, or through the words they curate in war novels, the observer/reader gets a glimpse of actual lives lost, futures cut short and even some of the dull noncombat jobs military do in war zones. The main point is that war is a social institution and its experiences are plentiful and decentralized. Many scholars and other interested readers look for war in the decisions and movements of militaries and states, but this book's difference is that it focuses on how a variety of formal and informal war curators present the American wars in Vietnam and Iraq at a moment of American militarism"--

Curating and Re-Curating the American Wars in Vietnam and Iraq

Regine Kölpin

Heidi Moor-Blank

Claudia Schmid

Regine Schleheck

Ella Theiss

Roland Spranger

Maren Schwarz

Astrid Seehaus

Franziska Franke

Christoph Krumbiegel

Sandra Rehschuh

Beate Werner

Manfred Köhler

Mischa Bach

Arnd Federspiel

Stefan Jahnke

Bettine Reichelt

Sabine Kampermann

Göran Seyfarth

Gunnar Schuberth

Andreas M. Sturm

Klaus Paffrath

Frank Dörfelt

Dieter Loga

25 Autoren waren im Vierländereck des Vogtlandes unterwegs, um den kriminellen Alltag in Gegenwart und Vergangenheit unter die ermittlerische Lupe zu nehmen und dabei in die regionalen Kochtöpfe oder Backröhren zu schauen. Von Kartoffeln in allen Variationen über Tote Oma, Nackete Maadle und Kalten Hund bis zum Weihnachtsstollen zieht sich ihre mörderische Spur durch das sonst eher friedliche und in sich ruhende Vogtland. Wir wünschen mörderische Spannung und guten Appetit!

Vogtländisches Blut(bad): 25 Krimis, 25 Rezepte

Art/Museums takes the study of international relations to the art museum. It seeks to persuade those who study international relations to take art/museums seriously and museum studies to take up the insights of international relations. And it does so at a time when both international relations and art are said to be at an end-that is, out of control and beyond sight of their usual constituencies. The book focuses on the British Museum, the National Gallery of London, the Museum of Iraq, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Getty museums, the Guggenheim museums, and "museum" spaces instantly created by the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. The art includes works over which museums might struggle, acquire through questionable means, hoard and possibly lose, such as the Parthenon sculptures, Raphael's Madonna of the Pinks, the ancient art of Babylon, modern art, and the art/museum itself in an era of rapid museum expansion. Bringing art, museums, and international relations together draws on the art technique of collage, which combines disparate objects, themes, and time periods in one work to juxtapose unexpected elements, leaving the viewer to relate objects that are not where they are expected to be.

International Relations Where We Least Expect it

Art/Museums

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