Martialling Peace
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Afghanistan
Author_Nicole Wegner
Category=GTU
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Category=JWLP
Cultural militarisation
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Middle power identity
militarised masculinities
Nationalism
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- ISBN 9781474492836
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Jun 2023
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Examines the mythology of the peacekeeper and how it functions to sustain militarism in global politics
Offers novel conceptual framing of martial peace and the peacekeeper myth
Critically examines common understandings of 'warfare' and 'peace'
Provides new ways of thinking about liberal peace and 'peaceful' societies and the roles that academics, government and publics play in reproducing structural violences
Builds on Howell's (2018) martial politics framework and offers important contributions to existing critical examinations of militarisation
This is a not a book about peacekeeping practices. This is a book about storytelling, fantasies and the ways that people connect emotionally to myths about peacekeeping. The celebration of peacekeeping as a legitimate and desirable use of military force is expressed through the unproblematised acceptance of militarism. Introducing a novel framework martial peace the book offers an in-depth examination of the Canadian Armed Forces missions to Afghanistan and the use of police violence against Indigenous protests in Canada as case examples where military violence has been justified in the name of peace. It critically investigates the peacekeeper myth and challenges the academic, government and popular beliefs that martial violence is required to sustain peace.
Nicole Wegner is a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland
