Full Description
Demilitarizing the Future draws from art, anthropology, and activism to investigate the entrenchment of militarism in everyday lives and to consider novel imaginaries of its dissolution. The pieces collected in this anthology track across military training camps in the United States, the tenements of Palestine, and other sites in the global networks of warfare and military preparedness to consider the pathways by which more equitable futures might be envisioned and sustained. Representing fields from anthropology to poetry and from literary studies to community organizing, the authors together weave a multidisciplinary collection of creative scholarship. Rather than presuming that the aftermath of war requires the reimposition of new military infrastructures, the collection speaks to the socially and artistically generative potentialities of military waste infrastructures as well as their enduring toxicities. Militarism and preparedness for war undergirds the infrastructure and design of everyday lives across the globe and its satellites, but the processes of demilitarization offer their own affordances. Within this collection, the authors broaden our understanding of militarization to examine its excesses and their repurposing toward demilitarized futures.
Contents
Contents; Figures; Acknowledgment; Preface: More Than One Future; Darcie DeAngelo-Rebecca Kastleman, Joshua Reno, and Leah Zani; Occupied Sleep: Notes on Ambient Ecologies of Rest in War-Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins; Deadly Infrastructure: Veteran Narratives of the Toxicity of Warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan-Peter C. Little, Joshua Reno, Jennifer Sare, and Chelsey Simoni; Ðất Nuớc: On the Metabolic Entanglements of Life and Death- Boone Nguyen; Witnessing the Upheavals of Democracy in Peru-Alonso Gamarra and Luis Javier Maguiña; Bathed in Sunlight-Darcie DeAngelo; A Walking Tour of the Dynamite District-Leah Zani; Fifty Empty Verbs: A Speculative Performance for the Big Hole-Rebecca Kastleman; Lives and Afterlives of Military Technologies-Nomi Stone
