Full Description
From the history of state terrorism in Latin America, to state- and group-perpetrated plunder and genocide in Africa, to war and armed conflicts in the Middle East, militarization--the heightened role of organized aggression in society--continues to painfully shape the lives of millions of people around the world.In Security Disarmed, scholars, policy planners, and activists come together to think critically about the human cost of violence and viable alternatives to armed conflict. Arranged in four parts--alternative paradigms of security, cross-national militarization, militarism in the United States, and pedagogical and cultural concerns--the book critically challenges militarization and voices an alternative encompassing vision of human security by analyzing the relationships among gender, race, and militarization. This collection of essays evaluates and resists the worldwide crisis of militarizationÙincluding but going beyond American military engagements in the twenty-first century.
Contents
Rethinking security, confronting inequality : an introduction / Barbara Sutton and Julie Novkov
Contesting militarization : global perspectives / Gwyn Kirk
Gender, race, and militarism : toward a more just alternative / Barbara Lee
Activist statements : visions and strategies for a just peace / International Congress of Women at The Hague Gender and Human Security Network, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
Los nuevos desaparecidos y muertos : immigration, militarization, death, and disappearance on Mexico's borders / Lynn Stephen
Saving Iranian women : Orientalist feminism and the Axis of Evil / Roksana Bahramitash
On women and "Indians" : the politics of inclusion and exclusion in militarized Fiji / Teresia K. Teaiwa
Plunder as statecraft : militarism and resistance in neocolonial Africa / Patricia McFadden
Because Vieques is our home : defend it! Women resisting militarization in Vieques, Puerto Rico / Katherine T. McCaffrey
Manhood, sexuality, and nation in post 9/11 United States / Bonnie Mann
The citizen-soldier as a substitute soldier : militarism at the intersection of neoliberalism and neoconservatism / Leonard C. Feldman
I want you! The 3 R's : reading, 'riting, and recruiting / Karen Houppert
Living room terrorists / Catherine Lutz
Militarizing women in film : toward a cinematic framing of war and terror / Janell Hobson
Army of none : militarism, positionality, and film / Cindy Sousa and Ron Smith
Teaching about gender, race, and militarization after 9/11 : nurturing dissent, compassion, and hope in the classroom / Simona Sharoni
