Figuring violence : affective investments in perpetual war / Rebecca A. Adelman.
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TextPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2019Description: 1 online resource (xi, 336 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780823281701
- 0823281701
- 0823281671
- 9780823281671
- Psychology, Military
- Militarism -- United States -- Psychological aspects
- Deployment (Strategy) -- Psychological aspects
- Children of military personnel -- United States -- Psychology
- Veterans -- Health and hygiene -- United States
- Military spouses -- United States -- Psychology
- Prisoners of war -- United States -- Psychology
- Dogs -- War use -- United States
- Psychology, Military
- Psychologie militaire
- Militarisme -- États-Unis -- Aspect psychologique
- Déploiement (Stratégie) -- Aspect psychologique
- Enfants de militaires -- États-Unis -- Psychologie
- Anciens combattants -- Santé et hygiène -- États-Unis
- Militaires -- Conjoints -- États-Unis -- Psychologie
- Chiens -- Utilisation militaire -- États-Unis
- HISTORY -- Military -- Other
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory
- Children of military personnel -- Psychology
- Dogs -- War use
- Military spouses -- Psychology
- Prisoners of war -- Psychology
- Psychology, Military
- Veterans -- Health and hygiene
- United States
- American militarism
- PTSD and TBI
- War on Terror
- affect
- detainees
- imagination
- mediation
- military children
- military spouses
- military working dogs
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- U22.3 .A34 2019
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Fabricated connections, deeply felt -- Envisioning civilian childhood -- Affective pedagogies for military children -- Recognizing military wives -- Economies of post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury -- Liberal imaginaries of Guantánamo -- Feeling for dogs in the War on Terror -- Conclusion: a radical and unsentimental attention.
This volume explores the roles of imagination and affects like apprehension, affection, admiration, gratitude, pity and anger in sustaining contemporary American militarism. The text 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.
Description based on print version record.
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