War, Citizenship, Territory

by York University; Division of S

• ISBN13: 9780415955133
• ISBN10: 0415955130
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-08-09
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The apparent ubiquity of war demands that we rethink long-held assumptions. War is not only pervasive, it is changing. New geographies of armed conflict and the shifting boundaries between military and civilian life mean that attention must turn to the nexus of war, citizenship and territory. How does urban warfare reshape more traditional conceptions of national territoriality and violence? If the line between war and peace has become more difficult to discern, how are politics reconstituted in the wake of combat? What kinds of recalibrations are underway between the warring body politic and the racialization and gendering of bodies? How do citizens confront the global legal and economic architectures of empire? What are the implications for the future of citizenship and geo/political analysis? This collection features eighteen chapters that take up these pressing questions, and others, with empirical examples from different regions of the world. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xiii
The Politics of War, Citizenship, Territory	p. 1
At War: Struggle, "Strategy," and Spatiality
Imagining Urban Warfare: Urbanization and U.S. Military Technoscience	p. 33
Spaces of Exception and Unexceptionability	p. 57
Bombs, Bodies, Acts: The Banalization of Suicide	p. 75
Panic, Civility, and the Homeland	p. 97
Distributed Preparedness: Space, Security, and Citizenship in the United States	p. 119
Re/constituting Territory
Reconstituting Iraq	p. 147
War Veterans, Disability, and Postcolonial Citizenship in Angola and Mozambique	p. 177
Who Are the Victims? Where Is the Violence? The Spatial Dialectics of Andean Violence as Revealed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Peru	p. 199
Unreliable Chinese: Internal Security and the Devaluation and Expansion of Citizenship in Postwar Hong Kong	p. 219
Conflict, Citizenship, and Human Security: Geographies of Protection	p. 241
Citizens and the Body Politic
Citizenship in the "Homeland": Families at War	p. 261
Resistance, Detainment, Asylum: The Onto-Political Limits of Border Crossing in North America	p. 281
IDs and Territory: Population Control for Resource Expropriation	p. 303
Nation and Gender in Jewish Israel	p. 327
Mobilizing Civil Society for the Hegemonic State: The Korean War and the Construction of Soldiercitizens in the United States	p. 345
"Not for Queen and Country or Any of That Shit..." Reflections on Citizenship and Military Participation in Contemporary British Soldier Narratives	p. 363
Afterword	p. 385
About the Contributors	p. 393
Index	p. 399
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