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War Without Bodies
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Author : Martin Danahay
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2022-03-18
War Without Bodies written by Martin Danahay and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-18 with History categories.
Historically the bodies of civilians are the most damaged by the increasing mechanization and derealization of warfare, but this is not reflected in the representation of violence in popular media. In War Without Bodies, author Martin Danahay argues that the media in the United States in particular constructs a “war without bodies” in which neither the corpses of soldiers or civilians are shown. War Without Bodies traces the intertwining of new communications technologies and war from the Crimean War, when Roger Fenton took the first photographs of the British army and William Howard Russell used the telegraph to transmit his dispatches, to the first of three “video wars” in the Gulf region in 1990-91, within the context of a war culture that made the costs of organized violence acceptable to a wider public. New modes of communication have paradoxically not made more war “real” but made it more ubiquitous and at the same time unremarkable as bodies are erased from coverage. Media such as photography and instantaneous video initially seemed to promise more realism but were assimilated into existing conventions that implicitly justified war. These new representations of war were framed in a way that erased the human cost of violence and replaced it with images that defused opposition to warfare. Analyzing poetry, photographs, video and video games the book illustrates the ways in which war was framed in these different historical contexts. It examines the cultural assumptions that influenced the reception of images of war and discusses how death and damage to bodies was made acceptable to the public. War Without Bodies aims to heighten awareness of how acceptance of war is coded into texts and how active resistance to such hidden messages can help prevent future unnecessary wars.
War Without Bodies
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Author : Martin A. Danahay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
War Without Bodies written by Martin A. Danahay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Mass media and war categories.
"Historically the bodies of civilians are the most damaged by the increasing mechanization and derealization of warfare, but this is not reflected in the representation of violence in popular media. In War Without Bodies, author Martin Danahay argues that the media in the United States in particular constructs a "war without bodies" in which neither the corpses of soldiers or civilians are shown. War Without Bodies traces the intertwining of new communications technologies and war from the Crimean War, when Roger Fenton took the first photographs of the British army and William Howard Russell used the telegraph to transmit his dispatches, to the first of three "video wars" in the Gulf region in 1990-91, within the context of a war culture that made the costs of organized violence acceptable to a wider public. New modes of communication have paradoxically not made more war "real" but made it more ubiquitous and at the same time unremarkable as bodies are erased from coverage. Media such as photography and instantaneous video initially seemed to promise more realism but were assimilated into existing conventions that implicitly justified war. These new representations of war were framed in a way that erased the human cost of violence and replaced it with images that defused opposition to warfare. Analyzing poetry, photographs, video and video games the book illustrates the ways in which war was framed in these different historical contexts. It examines the cultural assumptions that influenced the reception of images of war and discusses how death and damage to bodies was made acceptable to the public. War Without Bodies aims to heighten awareness of how acceptance of war is coded into texts and how active resistance to such hidden messages can help prevent future unnecessary wars"--
War Without Bodies
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Author : Martin Danahay
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2022-03-18
War Without Bodies written by Martin Danahay and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-18 with History categories.
Introduction: Two photographs -- Sacrificial bodies : Fenton, Tennyson and the Charge of the Light Brigade -- The soldier's body and sites of mourning -- War games -- Trauma and the soldier's body -- Sophie Ristelhueber : landscape as body -- Conclusion: Future war without bodies.
Making War On Bodies
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Author : Baker Catherine Baker
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2020-03-02
Making War On Bodies written by Baker Catherine Baker and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-02 with History categories.
This vibrant collection of essays reveals the intimate politics of how people with a wide range of relationships to war identify with, and against, the military and its gendered and racialised norms. It synthesises three recent turns in the study of international politics: aesthetics, embodiment and the everyday, into a new conceptual framework. This helps us to understand how militarism permeates society and how far its practices can be re-appropriated or even turned against it.
War Without Fronts
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Author : Bernd Greiner
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-05-05
War Without Fronts written by Bernd Greiner and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-05 with History categories.
Shortly before 8 am on 16 March 1968, C Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Regiment, 11th Brigade, Americal Division, on a search-and-destroy mission in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, entered the hamlet of My Lai. By noon more than 400 women, children and old men had been systematically murdered. To this day, the My Lai massacre has remained the most shocking episode of the Vietnam War. Yet this infamous incident was not an exception or aberration. Based on extensive research and unprecedented access to US Army archives, and tracing the responsibility for these atrocities all the way up to the White House and the Pentagon, War Without Fronts reveals the true extent of war crimes committed by American troops in Vietnam and how a war to win hearts and minds soon became a war against civilians.
Our Bodies Their Battlefields
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Author : Christina Lamb
language : en
Publisher: Scribner
Release Date : 2020-09-22
Our Bodies Their Battlefields written by Christina Lamb and has been published by Scribner this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-22 with Political Science categories.
From Christina Lamb, the coauthor of the bestselling I Am Malala and an award-winning journalist—an essential, groundbreaking examination of how women experience war. In Our Bodies, Their Battlefields, longtime intrepid war correspondent Christina Lamb makes us witness to the lives of women in wartime. An award-winning war correspondent for twenty-five years (she’s never had a female editor) Lamb reports two wars—the “bang-bang” war and the story of how the people behind the lines live and survive. At the same time, since men usually act as the fighters, women are rarely interviewed about their experience of wartime, other than as grieving widows and mothers, though their experience is markedly different from that of the men involved in battle. Lamb chronicles extraordinary tragedy and challenges in the lives of women in wartime. And none is more devastating than the increase of the use of rape as a weapon of war. Visiting warzones including the Congo, Rwanda, Nigeria, Bosnia, and Iraq, and spending time with the Rohingya fleeing Myanmar, she records the harrowing stories of survivors, from Yazidi girls kept as sex slaves by ISIS fighters and the beekeeper risking his life to rescue them; to the thousands of schoolgirls abducted across northern Nigeria by Boko Haram, to the Congolese gynecologist who stitches up more rape victims than anyone on earth. Told as a journey, and structured by country, Our Bodies, Their Battlefields gives these women voice. We have made significant progress in international women’s rights, but across the world women are victimized by wartime atrocities that are rarely recorded, much less punished. The first ever prosecution for war rape was in 1997 and there have been remarkably few convictions since, as if rape doesn’t matter in the reckoning of war, only killing. Some courageous women in countries around the world are taking things in their own hands, hunting down the war criminals themselves, trying to trap them through Facebook. In this profoundly important book, Christina Lamb shines a light on some of the darkest parts of the human experience—so that we might find a new way forward. Our Bodies, Their Battlefields is as inspiring and empowering is as it is urgent, a clarion call for necessary change.
War Without Fronts
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Author : Bernd Greiner
language : en
Publisher: Bodley Head Childrens
Release Date : 2009
War Without Fronts written by Bernd Greiner and has been published by Bodley Head Childrens this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
War Without Fronts reveals the true extent of war crimes committed by American troops in Vietnam. It looks at the killing work of US Army death squads in the Northern Provinces in 1967; gives a harrowing account of the massacres at My Lai and My Khe on 16 March 1968; and portrays the war of attrition in the Southern Provinces between 1968 and 1971.
Paying With Their Bodies
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Author : John M. Kinder
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2015-03-23
Paying With Their Bodies written by John M. Kinder and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-23 with History categories.
Christian Bagge, an Iraq War veteran, lost both his legs in a roadside bomb attack on his Humvee in 2006. Months after the accident, outfitted with sleek new prosthetic legs, he jogged alongside President Bush for a photo op at the White House. The photograph served many functions, one of them being to revive faith in an American martial ideal—that war could be fought without permanent casualties, and that innovative technology could easily repair war’s damage. When Bagge was awarded his Purple Heart, however, military officials asked him to wear pants to the ceremony, saying that photos of the event should be “soft on the eyes.” Defiant, Bagge wore shorts. America has grappled with the questions posed by injured veterans since its founding, and with particular force since the early twentieth century: What are the nation’s obligations to those who fight in its name? And when does war’s legacy of disability outweigh the nation’s interests at home and abroad? In Paying with Their Bodies, John M. Kinder traces the complicated, intertwined histories of war and disability in modern America. Focusing in particular on the decades surrounding World War I, he argues that disabled veterans have long been at the center of two competing visions of American war: one that highlights the relative safety of US military intervention overseas; the other indelibly associating American war with injury, mutilation, and suffering. Kinder brings disabled veterans to the center of the American war story and shows that when we do so, the history of American war over the last century begins to look very different. War can no longer be seen as a discrete experience, easily left behind; rather, its human legacies are felt for decades. The first book to examine the history of American warfare through the lens of its troubled legacy of injury and disability, Paying with Their Bodies will force us to think anew about war and its painful costs.
War And The Body
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Author : Kevin McSorley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013
War And The Body written by Kevin McSorley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
"This book places the body at the centre of critical thinking about war, giving embodiment and bodily issues an analytic recognition they have often been denied in the annuals and ontology of conventional war scholarship"--Page [1].
War On The Body
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Author : Laura Guillaume
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-03
War On The Body written by Laura Guillaume and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03 with History categories.
This book explores the issues associated with thinking the body at war. Ultimately, it reframes the relationship between the body and war by suggesting a new way of thinking about what ‘the body’ is, and consequently how we can consider it in relation to war. Although ‘the body’ may appear to be an unproblematic concept, through the prism of war it starts to become more difficult to grasp. Rather than being a material object with a certain given significance and with a given set of capabilities, the body emerges as being thoroughly contaminated by politics and culture.While efforts to render the body amenable to scientific knowledge and certainty abound, the very variety of these efforts suggests that they are not neutral scientific tools (whatever this might mean) but active in the construction of bodies of certain types. In other words, the body does not exist independently of our efforts to understand and alter it. This underlines the necessity for thinking the body and war, for thinking war without the body depends on a prior exclusion of the body which creates the body as a certain kind of entity which is amenable to exclusion. Every time we describe, invoke or omit the body, we are actually engaged in an active politics of creation, involved in the determination and definition of the body. If the body is actually actively created wherever it seems to be passively invoked, then it becomes more difficult to determine once and for all what the body is. Scientific and technological determinants of the body begin to appear to be provisional constructions of the body, rather than eternal truths. This leads to the conclusion, reinforced by the work of Deleuze and Guattari, that the body has no final form or substance, but is defined in virtue of its constant capacity for change. This has important implications for thinking about the body and war, and the book suggests that these implications have an ethical significance which reinforces the importance of thinking from the point of view of the unknown body. Rather than being simply anchored in geo-political space and linear time, war begins to appear through its affects on the body, for example, through post-traumatic stress disorder, or ‘shell-shock’. It becomes possible to see war in terms of the way in which it is enacted and performed by the body, and in this sense it becomes a more elusive term which is intrinsically corporeal not only in its effects (in terms of the bodies it mobilises and damages) but in terms of an ongoing negotiation with the resonances of war which may take place long after battle has ostensibly ceased, and which may permeate apparently non-militarised areas of society. This book chimes with a range of themes current in contemporary scholarship. For example, the question of how to diagnose trends in contemporary war and the War on Terror has provoked a number of responses from those such as Michael Dillon, Julian Reid and Luis Lobo-Guerrero who are concerned to interrogate how war intersects with political ontology and is productive of a certain mode of governance. While indebted to these readings for a number of insights, this book differs from them in regarding war not so much in terms of a martial science, but as a social and cultural phenomenon whose effects are immanent and intimate. This book’s desire to posit the unknown body as an ineluctable ethical dimension in all thought relates to, but differs from, the works of Judith Butler and Maja Zehfuss which seek to reconsider what our ethical responsibilities and responses in relation to war might be. The book is original in bringing the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari to bear on thinking about the body and war, and may therefore serve to introduce these thinkers to a new audience.