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Support the troops : military obligation, gender, and the making of political community / Katharine M. Millar

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  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Type de support
  • Volume
Titre(s)
  • Support the troops : military obligation, gender, and the making of political community / Katharine M. Millar
A pour autre édition sur un support différent
  • Support the Troops Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community Katharine M. Millar 2022 Oxford Oxford University Press 978-0-19-764236-8
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Publication
  • Oxford New York (N.Y.) : Oxford University press
Date de copyright
  • C 2022
Description matérielle
  • 1 volume (XVI-284 pages) : graphiques ; 25 cm
Collection
  • Oxford studies in gender and international relations
ISBN
  • 978-0-19-764233-7
  • 0-19-764233-0
EAN
  • 9780197642337 rel.
Appartient à la collection
  • Oxford studies in gender and international relations
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 306.27
Note sur le titre et les responsabilités
  • Titre provenant des métadonnées fournies par l'éditeur
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliogr. p. [237]-272. Notes bibliogr. Index
Note sur le contenu
  • 1. Introduction 2. The Military, Gender, and Liberal Political Obligation 3. Supporting the Troops in Historical Context 4. Contemporary Support the Troops Discourse and Practice 5. The Politics of the Troops 6. The Meaning(s) of Support 7. Support and the Making of Political Community 8. The Meaning of Support for War Opposition 9. Conclusion
Note de thèses et écrits académiques
  • Texte remanié de Doctoral thesis International relations Oxford (GB) 2017
Résumé ou extrait
  • "Provides an empirical overview of "support the troops" discourses in the US and UK during the early years of the global war on terror (2001-2010). As Millar argues, seemingly stable understandings of the relationship between military service, citizenship, and gender norms are being unsettled by changes in warfare. The effect is a sense of uneasiness about the meaning of what it means to be a "good" citizen, "good" person, and, crucially, a "good" man in a context where neither war nor military service easily align with existing cultural myths about wartime obligations and collective sacrifice. Instead we participate in the performance of supporting the troops, even when we oppose war--an act that appears not only patriotic and moral, but also apolitical. Failing to support the troops, either through active opposition or a lack of overt supportive actions, is perceived as not only offensive and inappropriately political, but disloyal anddangerous. Millar asserts that military support acts as a new form of military service, which serves to limit anti-war dissent, plays a crucial role in naturalizing the violence of the transnational liberal order, and recasts war as an internal issue of solidarity and loyalty. Rigorous and politically challenging, Millar provides the first work to systematically examine "support the troops" as a distinct social phenomenon and offers a novel reading of this discourse through a gendered lens that places it in historical and transnational context." (éd.)
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