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The Militarization of Childhood

Thinking Beyond the Global South

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  • © 2011

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  1. J. Marshall Beier
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In its various manifestations, the campaign to end child soldiering has brought graphic images of militarized children to popular consciousness. In the main, this has been a campaign that has seemed to speak to African contexts without as much reflection on the myriad ways in which the lives of children are militarized in advanced (post)industrial societies. Proceeding from this quite striking omission, the contributors to this volume move beyond the usual focus on the global South. Making what will be an important contribution to a much needed critical turn in the vast and still rapidly growing child soldier literature, they address multifarious ways in which childhood is militarized beyond the global South through enactments of militarism that have drawn much less in the way of critical inquiry.

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Everyday Zones of Militarization

    • J. Marshall Beier
    Pages 1-15

  3. (Neo) Zones of Violence: Reconstructing Empire on the Bodies of Militarized Youth

    • Anna M. Agathangelou, Kyle D. Killian
    Pages 17-41

  4. Guardians of the Peace?: The Significance of Children to Continued Militarism

    • Alison M. S. Watson
    Pages 43-60

  5. Militarized Children and Sovereign Power

    • Lorraine Macmillan
    Pages 61-76

  6. Education and the War on Terror: The Early Years

    • Helen Brocklehurst
    Pages 77-94

  7. War Stories: Militarized Pedagogies of Children’s Everyday

    • J. Marshall Beier
    Pages 95-110

  8. Superheroes or Super-Soldiers?: The Militarization of Our Modern-Day Heroes

    • Lori A. Crowe
    Pages 111-131

  9. Mediated War: Imaginative Disembodiment and the Militarization of Childhood

    • Lesley Copeland
    Pages 133-152

  10. “We Die for the Glory of the Emperor”: Young People, Warhammer, and Role-Playing War Online

    • Nie Crowe
    Pages 153-173

  11. Kids with Guns: Militarization, Masculinities, Moral Panic, and (Dis)Organized Violence

    • Victoria M. Basham
    Pages 175-193

  12. Interrogating “Militarized” Images and Disrupting Sovereign Narratives in the Case of Omar Khadr

    • Jessica E. Foran
    Pages 195-216

  13. The Killers among Us: School Shootings and the Militarization of Childhood

    • Claire Turenne Sjolander
    Pages 217-236

  14. Everyday Stories of a Militarized Childhood

    • Heather A. Smith, Maureen P. Smith, C. Ross Smith
    Pages 237-253

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 255-297
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The Militarization of Childhood . . . is insightful and covers ground that one would not normally find in the same collection, such as critiques of international law and child development approaches to parenting, analyses of children's literature, and indepth examinations of internet games and media. In spite of this breadth of coverage, the book is well integrated and quite accessible. Because of its scope, scholars from various fields will no doubt find it highly valuable. This collection is also remarkably timely, particularly given current discussions about gun control in the United States. I recommend it strongly as it invites reflection on the linkages of many factors that come together in visible and less-visible forms of violence in society today. Contemporary Sociology

"Reading The Militarization of Childhood prompts all of us to explore and critique the subtle ways that girls and boys are being militarized - in classrooms, video game shops, and the corridors of theUN. This is a valuable book for anyone trying to make sense of everyday politics." - Cynthia Enloe, author of Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War

About the authors

J. Marshall Beier holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from York University, Canada. He has taught in the areas of International Relations Theory, Critical Security Studies, Peace Studies, and International Political Economy. He currently holds the International Relations Theory position in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University at the rank of Associate Professor (tenured) where his duties include both undergraduate and graduate teaching and supervision.

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