| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 306 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Rethinking security, confronting inequality : an introduction / Barbara Sutton and Julie Novkov -- Contesting militarization : global perspectives / Gwyn Kirk -- Gender, race, and militarism : toward a more just alternative / Barbara Lee -- Activist statements : visions and strategies for a just peace / International Congress of Women at The Hague Gender and Human Security Network, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center -- Los nuevos desaparecidos y muertos : immigration, militarization, death, and disappearance on Mexico's borders / Lynn Stephen -- Saving Iranian women : Orientalist feminism and the Axis of Evil / Roksana Bahramitash -- On women and "Indians" : the politics of inclusion and exclusion in militarized Fiji / Teresia K. Teaiwa -- Plunder as statecraft : militarism and resistance in neocolonial Africa / Patricia McFadden -- Because Vieques is our home : defend it! Women resisting militarization in Vieques, Puerto Rico / Katherine T. McCaffrey -- Manhood, sexuality, and nation in post 9/11 United States / Bonnie Mann -- The citizen-soldier as a substitute soldier : militarism at the intersection of neoliberalism and neoconservatism / Leonard C. Feldman -- I want you! The 3 R's : reading, 'riting, and recruiting / Karen Houppert -- Living room terrorists / Catherine Lutz -- Militarizing women in film : toward a cinematic framing of war and terror / Janell Hobson -- Army of none : militarism, positionality, and film / Cindy Sousa and Ron Smith -- Teaching about gender, race, and militarization after 9/11 : nurturing dissent, compassion, and hope in the classroom / Simona Sharoni. |
| Summary |
From the history of state terrorism in Latin America, to state- and group-perpetrated plunder and genocide in Africa, to war and armed conflicts in the Middle East, militarization?the heightened role of organized aggression in society?continues to painfully shape the lives of millions of people around the world. In Security Disarmed, scholars, policy planners, and activists come together to think critically about the human cost of violence and viable alternatives to armed conflict. Arranged in four parts?alternative paradigms of security, cross-national militarization, militarism in the United. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sociology, Military.
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Sociology, Military. |
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Militarism.
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Militarism. |
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Women and the military.
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Women and the military. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Sutton, Barbara, 1970-
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Morgen, Sandra.
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Novkov, Julie, 1966-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Security disarmed. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2008 9780813543598 (DLC) 2007048327 (OCoLC)182553045 |
| ISBN |
9780813545554 (electronic book) |
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0813545552 (electronic book) |
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1281801682 |
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9781281801685 |
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0813543592 |
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0813543606 |
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9780813543598 |
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9780813543604 |
| Standard No. |
9786611801687 |
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