Addressing the Militarization of Youth

Kershner, Seth; Harding, Scott

doi:10.1080/10402659.2014.906994

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“…The young people often adapted the discourse that renders their neighbours and peers as ‘enemies of the state’, drawing a line between those who deserve and those who do not deserve to die: ‘There’s shootouts, and sometimes, the people who shouldn’t die, die ’ (male, 12 years, emphasis added). This witnesses about a ‘politics of personal responsibility’ (Kershner and Harding, 2014) that skew wider socio-economic and political conditions.…”

Section: Militarized Logics and Responsesmentioning

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Militarized everyday lives, logics and responses among children and youth in a violent community in urban Brazil

Ursin

2020

Childhood

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This article draws on interviews with 40 participants (12–25 years) to examine how drug trafficking and armed violence militarizes the everyday lives of young residents in a deprived community in urban Brazil. The overall aim is to explore whether, and how, children and youth who are not involved in the drug trade are influenced by, engage with, and respond to militarist rationalities and manifestations. In addition, it frames militarization as resting upon and reinforcing structural inequalities.

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Section: Militarized Logics and Responsesmentioning

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Militarized everyday lives, logics and responses among children and youth in a violent community in urban Brazil

Ursin

2020

Childhood

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“…19 American public schools are susceptible to this influence because they are legally required to grant recruiters access, but Kershner and Harding find that '[t]here has been a significant increase in the level of military involvement in European schools.' 20 The non-profit Forces Watch has even taken on the project of contesting recruiters' influence on schools in the United Kingdom. 21 Sporting events are not only used as a forum for recruitment but also display patriotic tributes to the military that promote its values and missions.…”

Section: Necessary and Surplus Militarisationmentioning

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Necessary and surplus militarisation: Rethinking civil-military interactions and their consequences

Schulzke

2017

Eur j.of int. secur.

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Recent scholarship on militarisation suggests that Western democracies are threatened by military influence spreading into civilian domains. I contend that this research has identified problematic forms of militarisation, but that more careful attention should be given to different manifestations of this phenomenon. I borrow Herbert Marcuse’s distinction between necessary and surplus repression to show that militarisation can be excusable or excessive, depending on the context and its extent. Militarisation is potentially harmful and should be opposed when it is coercive or promotes militarism. By contrast, militarisation may be necessary if it is beneficial or ineliminable. A degree of militarisation may be desirable insofar as contact between civilians and soldiers promotes the spread of information, ensures that civilians have some influence on the military, and prevents members of the military from feeling detached and resentful. Some militarisation may also be indispensable for guarding against plausible threats or promoting social stability. Thus, militarisation should be treated as a process that has mixed costs and benefits depending on how it is enacted.

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“…With the shift to the AVF, the military has directed significant resources to reaching students in their schools. Reading this as an ‘intrusion’ into or ‘invasion of our schools, our communities and our future’, 16 activists have framed public schools as the critical battleground in counter-recruitment work (Anderson, 2009; Friesen, 2014; Harding and Kershner, 2011; Kershner and Harding, 2014). Citing the manual of the Army’s School Recruiting Program, counter-recruitment activists point out that military recruiters seek ‘“school ownership” and “total market penetration” by insinuating themselves into the social and cultural fabric of public schools and colleges’ (Mariscal, 2004).…”

Section: State Predation Youth As Preymentioning

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“…These victories are undoubtedly important, especially when the demilitarized schools are those serving working-class youth of color who are most likely to be targeted by the military (see e.g. Kershner and Harding, 2014: 254–5). At the same time, however, the APHA statement strikingly strips youth of agency and responsibility.…”

Section: State Predation Youth As Preymentioning

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From Complicit Citizens to Potential Prey: State Imaginaries and Subjectivities in US War Resistance

Brissette

2016

Critical Sociology

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The movements against the Vietnam and Iraq wars gave rise to analogous resistance efforts, in the form of draft resistance and counter-recruitment, respectively. Despite their many similarities, the draft resistance and counter-recruitment movements emerged in distinct historical eras marked by very different 'state imaginaries' or assumptions about the nature of the state and people's relation to it. Drawing on original archival work, this paper excavates these state imaginaries and examines how they conditioned activists' subjectivities in each era. More specifically, this paper argues that the 1960s were marked by an imaginary of the state based on consent, which positioned draft resisters as complicit citizens and engendered a sense of personal responsibility for the war. This state imaginary was displaced in the neoliberal era by an imaginary of the state as an alien and invasive force, which positioned counter-recruitment activists (or their children) as potential prey and impelled efforts at self-defense.

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Addressing the Militarization of Youth

Cited by 4 publications

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Militarized everyday lives, logics and responses among children and youth in a violent community in urban Brazil

Militarized everyday lives, logics and responses among children and youth in a violent community in urban Brazil

Necessary and surplus militarisation: Rethinking civil-military interactions and their consequences

From Complicit Citizens to Potential Prey: State Imaginaries and Subjectivities in US War Resistance

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