Bare life of the virtuous shadow warrior: The use of silhouette in military training advertisements

Roderick, Ian

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“…Additionally, much work has focused upon the role and position of the human body within these mediatised representations. The work of Jenkings, Winter, and Woodward (2008), Roderick (2009), Woodward et al (2009) and Woodward, Winter, and Jenkings (2010 illustrate the ways in which the soldier's body is inscribed with meaning within photographic media. Less well documented, however (although see Rech, 2014), are the ways in which specific technologies of warfare are fetishised; represented within the media in particular ways that iterate notions of power and dominance that are ascribed to them.…”

Section: Popular Geopolitics and The Militarymentioning

confidence: 96%

Disrupting air power: Performativity and the unsettling of geopolitical frames through artworks

Williams

2014

Political Geography

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a b s t r a c tThis paper advances the concept of disruption, drawing upon Butler's (1993) work on performativity, her engagement with Goffman's (1974) frame analysis and recent work on performativity within critical geopolitics. It argues this approach provides a useful tool with which to elucidate gaps in the iterative processes of geopolitical discourse production that offer opportunities for momentary distortions to these dominant articulations of power. It analyses the utility of this approach through discussion of three artworks by the acclaimed British artist Fiona Banner. In June 2010 she unveiled her prestigious Duveens commission project at Tate Britain. The work, entitled 'Harrier and Jaguar', was the most ambitious of a series of engagements with military aircraft which have spanned over a decade of creative work. Banner's work has become synonymous with challenging dominant discourses on power and war especially through textual representations of war films and innovative uses of military aircraft. Beginning with her book project, 'All the world's fighter planes' (2004) and moving through her Duveens project to the military aircraft-related work 'Tornado' (2010), this paper argues that Banner's work illustrates the utility of the concept of disruption; going beyond simply raising questions about our engagements with military aircraft, to actively disrupting our encounters with and understandings of these objects and thus popular representations of air power.

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Section: Popular Geopolitics and The Militarymentioning

confidence: 96%

Disrupting air power: Performativity and the unsettling of geopolitical frames through artworks

Williams

2014

Political Geography

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“…5 Here, the stack of books remain but are reduced in number and are topped by a pair of aviator sunglasses of a style popular at the time of the books' publication. That this is a military story is indicated by the silhouetted figure of the soldier, rifle and helicopter reflected in one of the lenses (Roderick 2009;Woodward et al 2009). Hennessey's memoir is distinct in tone and structure, striking a different tone with its conscious distancing from the models of military masculinity that saturate much of the contemporary genre and its self-conscious presentation of the author and his fellow officers as distinct in their class and education backgrounds.…”

Section: Judging a Book By Its Covermentioning

confidence: 98%

Military memoirs, their covers and the reproduction of public narratives of war

Woodward¹,

Jenkings²

2012

Journal of War & Culture Studies

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Military memoirs, their covers and the reproduction of public narratives of war abstRactThis article explores the role of the covers of military memoirs in articulating and reproducing ideas about men at war. Drawing on the range of published military memoirs about service with the British armed forces from 1980 onwards, the article looks at the covers of these texts as paratextual features that provide a threshold for the reader. The article explores how these covers contribute to public narratives of war, which include discourses that prioritize a specific model of military masculinity. It does this by examining features such as specific design features, dominant conventions and changes in covers over time. The article concludes with a discussion of the ways in which memoir covers correspond with the stylistic conventions and discourses about men and war evident in other media entertainment formats. It also considers the disparity often evident between the messages promoted by a cover's design and that of the text itself.Military memoirs, the personal narratives about experiences of military participation, have long been a source of social ideas about men and war. These are books written overwhelmingly by men, about a specific aspect of experiences in war that remain predominantly those of men. From the emergence of the genre in the mid-nineteenth century to the present, of the many readings KeyWoRds military memoir armed forces masculinity book covers paratext

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“…Similarly, recent and contemporary CMR uses survey-based approaches to public and military attitudes toward the 'culture gap' and the Triangle Institute for Security Studies), and relies upon testing relationships between dependent and independent variables (Feaver 1999). Whilst there do exist a small number of qualitative analyses of recruiting images (Hockey 1981;Rowland 2006;Saucier 2010), military promotional iconographies (Roderick 2009), and the disparity between the image and reality of military service (Shyles and Hocking 1990), little has been done to consider, in particular, the power of the image to affect dispensations toward military service. Neither has there been much attempt to understand what Jenkings et al (2011) call 'military identities' and situated, local and '(inter)subjective experiences' which are clearly part of military promotion (Allen 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

Recruitment, counter-recruitment and critical military studies

Rech

2014

Global Discourse

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Despite constituting the formal mechanism by which states and militaries persuade and enrol their personnel, military recruitment is poorly understood in the social and political sciences. Tied either to a normative and partisan sociology which aims to provide applied solutions for recruitment and retention programmes, or subsumed under a broad banner, by critical scholars, of a global 'cultural condition' of militarisation, studies of recruitment lack the rigour they should be afforded. In exploring these issues, the paper offers a vision of critical military studies which takes seriously the efforts of counter-military recruiting activist and protest movements in the US and UK. Counter-recruitment activism is billed as the most practical way to resist policies of militarism and militarisation. In promoting locally situated, practical solutions to the effects of militarised cultures (often as part of activism in schools), it aims to expose the relationship between, and acts to correct, both local and global injustices. In reviewing the practical and conceptual basis for counter-recruiting strategies, and speaking to broader movements in feminist scholarship on militarisation, the paper demonstrates the importance of critical studies of military recruitment, and in so doing, argues for a critical military studies which is situated amidst the people and places militarism affects.

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Bare life of the virtuous shadow warrior: The use of silhouette in military training advertisements

Cited by 11 publications

References 9 publications

Disrupting air power: Performativity and the unsettling of geopolitical frames through artworks

Disrupting air power: Performativity and the unsettling of geopolitical frames through artworks

Military memoirs, their covers and the reproduction of public narratives of war

Recruitment, counter-recruitment and critical military studies

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