War, identity and the liberal state everyday experiences of the geopolitical in the Armed Forces / Victoria M. Basham.
| Author/creator | Basham, Victoria |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | 1st edition. |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013. |
| Description | xvii, 208 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Interventions |
| 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? |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-192) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012051297 |
| ISBN | 9780415583411 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0415583411 (hardback) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |