Beschreibung:
Drawing on original research with members of the Armed Forces, War, Identity and the Liberal State offers a critical account of the ways in which the everyday politics of gender, race and sexuality in the military facilitates and contests the geopolitics of wars waged by liberal democratic states and societies.
The Geopolitics of the Everyday in the Military 2. Towards a 'History of the Present' 3. Intimacies of War and Gender 4. Forbidden Intimacies: Heteronormativity and Military 'Values' 5. Imperial Encounters and the Structural Privileging of Whiteness 6. The March of Progress?