Counter-Recruitment and the Campaign to Demilitarize Public Schools

Harding, Scott; Kershner, Seth

doi:10.1057/9781137493279

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“…What is key is how these things come to be normalized. While the militarization of public education, for example, includes the direct reach of the military and even of overt recruitment efforts into schools (Harding and Kershner, 2015), other aspects might seem less intuitively connected to militarism until we look more deeply. Responding to the problem of mass shootings and other gun violence, the trend toward fortification of schools in the United States—and, increasingly, elsewhere—is predicated on sustained reinforcement of a sense of the immanence of threat and the presumed imperative of particular kinds of measures designed to meet it.…”

Section: Childhood(s) Militarism(s)mentioning

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Children, childhoods, and everyday militarisms

Beier

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2020

Childhood

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Like childhood, thinking critically about militarism can entail a great deal of unlearning before coming to a more nuanced understanding of what lies beyond the signifier. Just as childhoods are multiple, overlapping, contingent, and bound up in many more aspects of our social worlds than is apparent if we look only for the child, so too militarism. The ways in which militarisms intersect childhoods and vice versa, therefore, call us to reflect not only on the conspicuous presence of militaries as institutions or on life in zones of conflict, but on the everyday lives of children everywhere in all their complexity and diversity.

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Section: Childhood(s) Militarism(s)mentioning

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Children, childhoods, and everyday militarisms

Beier

Tabak

2020

Childhood

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“…Militarization is a 'general cultural condition' (Rech 2014b, 246) that manifests itself in a plethora of different ways, be that in the form of military recruitment in schools (Harding and Kershner 2015), in US military bases across the globe (Fitz-Henry 2015), or in popular culture and global media (Der Derian 2009;Stahl 2010). What Harding and Kershner's interviews with activists, and Fitz-Henry's ethnography, make clear is that militarization is best understood from the point of view of those whose lives are affected by it every day.…”

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