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War, identity and the liberal state [electronic resource] : everyday experiences of the geopolitical in the Armed Forces / Victoria M. Basham

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Basham, Victoria
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Description
xvii, 208 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Contents
Glossary of military terminology and acronyms -- Basic rank structure of the British Armed Forces -- Introduction - the geopolitics of the everyday in the 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 -- Materialising identity and the British warfare state -- British 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? -- 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 -- Forbidden intimacies: rethinking military masculinities through heteronormativity and desire -- A 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 -- 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?
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9780415583411 (hardback)
0415583411 (hardback)
9780203758328 (e-book)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-192) and index.
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