Rebecca A. Adelman

Figuring Violence: Affective Investments in Perpetual War

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Produktbeschreibung

Figuring Violence explores the roles of imagination and affects like apprehension, affection, admiration, gratitude, pity, and anger in sustaining contemporary American militarism. The book charts the politics of wartime sentimental investment in civilian children, military children, military spouses, veterans with PTSD and TBI, Guantánamo Bay detainees, and military dogs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: FORDHAM UNIV PR
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780823281688
• ISBN-10: 082328168X
• Artikelnr.: 51496540

Autorenporträt

Rebecca A. Adelman is Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is the author of Beyond the Checkpoint: Visual Practices in America's Global War on Terror.

Inhaltsangabe

On the Cover Image: ¿Vertigo at Guantanamö ix
Introduction: Fabricated Connections, Deeply Felt 1
1. Envisioning Civilian Childhood 27
2. Affective Pedagogies for Military Children 52
3. Recognizing Military Wives 88
4. Economies of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury
137
5. Liberal Imaginaries of Guantánamo 178
6. Feeling for Dogs in the War on Terror 212
Conclusion: A Radical and Unsentimental Attention 245
Acknowledgments 251
Notes 257
Index 329