ABSTRACT

For all too obvious reasons, war, empire, and military conflict have become extremely hot topics in the academy. Given the changing nature of war, one of the more promising areas of scholarly investigation has been the development of new theories of war and war’s impact on society. War, Citizenship, Territory features 19 chapters that look at the impact of war and militarism on citizenship, whether traditional territorially-bound national citizenship or "transnational" citizenship. Cowen and Gilbert argue that while there has been an explosion of work on citizenship and territory, Western academia’s avoidance of the immediate effects of war (among other things) has led them to ignore war, which they contend is both pervasive and well nigh permanent.  This volume sets forth a new, geopolitically based theory of war’s transformative role on contemporary forms of citizenship and territoriality, and includes empirical chapters that offer global coverage.

part 1|26 pages

At War: Struggle, “Strategy,” and Spatiality

chapter 2|24 pages

Imagining Urban Warfare

Urbanization and U.S. Military Technoscience

chapter 4|21 pages

Bombs, Bodies, Acts

The Banalization of Suicide

chapter 5|22 pages

Panic, Civility, and the Homeland

chapter 6|25 pages

Distributed Preparedness

Space, Security, and Citizenship in the United States

part 2|113 pages

Re/constituting Territory

chapter 7|30 pages

Reconstituting Iraq

chapter 9|20 pages

Who Are the Victims? Where Is the Violence?

The Spatial Dialectics of Andean Violence as Revealed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Peru

chapter 10|22 pages

Unreliable Chinese

Internal Security and the Devaluation and Expansion of Citizenship in Postwar Hong Kong

chapter 11|17 pages

Conflict, Citizenship, and Human Security

Geographies of Protection

part III|134 pages

Citizens and the Body Politic

chapter 12|19 pages

Citizenship in the “Homeland”

Families at War

chapter 13|22 pages

Resistance, Detainment, Asylum

The Onto-Political Limits of Border Crossing in North America

chapter 14|24 pages

IDs and Territory

Population Control for Resource Expropriation

chapter 15|18 pages

Nation and Gender in Jewish Israel

chapter 16|17 pages

Mobilizing Civil Society for the Hegemonic State

The Korean War and the Construction of Soldiercitizens in the United States

chapter 17|22 pages

“Not for Queen and Country or Any of That Shit …”

Reflections on Citizenship and Military Participation in Contemporary British Soldier Narratives

chapter III|8 pages

Afterword