From Military Geography to militarism's geographies: disciplinary engagements with the geographies of militarism and military activities

Woodward, Rachel

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“…Some provisos are needed, as distinctions between war and peace are clearly hazy, military violence often permeates 'peacetime' (Cuomo, 1996), and militarism certainly shapes the spaces of 'peaceful' countries (Woodward, 2005). Nonetheless, there is a reason for this starting point for analysis, which I examine more critically at the end of this section.…”

Section: Domestic Violence As Warfarementioning

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“…It is tempting to analyse these intimate uses of violence in light of geographical work on militarism. Militarism, the extension of military influence into everyday civilian life, inflects civilian spaces and social relations (Woodward, 2005) and provides a way of making sense of 'the ways in which war is already in our peace' (Cowen, 2012). The shared intimate dynamics of domestic violence and international warfare might thus be understood on the basis that we all live in societies where militarism inflects not only intimate spaces (Cowen and Storey, 2013) but patterns of masculine aggression.…”

Section: Rotating Militarismmentioning

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“…Yet these forms of violence share bases of power with more pervasive intimate forms of violence: they are similarly located, they work through emotions, and there is always some enactment of resistance (Pain, 2014a(Pain, , 2014b, all of which points to a shared analysis. Far more than terrorism, which I have discussed elsewhere (Pain, 2014a), war is inseparable from the politics and experience of everyday life (Cuomo, 1996;Woodward, 2005), yet the spatial metaphors used to analyse war tend to situate it as different and distant (Sjoberg, 2013).…”

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“…Historical/civilizational perspectives can for example refer to the shared understandings about the birth and evolution of a nation state among its elites and population, such as defining battles of independence, or resistance, a colonial history, or -as Snyder alluded to in his work on Soviet nuclear thinking -the unique thresholds for things like an "unacceptable damage to the homeland" (Snyder 1977, 28). The impact of geography and resources on military thinking has been written on extensively, including from more structuralist perspectives (Gray 1999;Baum and Sorenson 2003;Woodward 2005). Approaches to military isolationism in…”

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Am I my brother’s peacekeeper? Strategic cultures and change among major troop contributors to United Nations peacekeeping

Libben

2017

Canadian Foreign Policy Journal

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AcknowledgementsFirst and foremost, I would like to dedicate this dissertation to my parents, whose example inspired me to start a doctorate in the first place and without whose support I would not have been able to complete this thesis. To my mother, who read the first draft and the last draft, and who provided invaluable advice and suggestions every step of the way. To my father, who has been an academic and intellectual role model throughout my life, and provides a constant reminder to me to never stop being curious. To my sister, who has been a source both of academic inspiration and commiseration, and who helped me see the light at the end of the Ph.D.tunnel when things seemed dark. To my supervisors, Dr. Claire Turenne-Sjolander and Dr. Miguel de Larrinaga, who supported my ideas from the start and who helped me navigate my way to a final draft. To my friend Doug, who has always been there to listen to my triumphs and defeats, and who has always been willing to talk about the big questions with me. To all my friends, who I have relied on time and again to replenish my energy and regain my perspective.To my wife, who helped me reach the end of this thesis in ways big and small, supporting me with her food, her advice, her love, and her very existence. And to my dog Lyla, who did her best to prevent me from writing this thesis while at the same time reminding me that sometimes it's important to stop writing, get up, and go for a walk.iii Tables Table 1: Summary of the three generations of strategic culture Table 2: Strategic norms concerning the legitimate ends and means of defence policy Table 3: The Peacekeeping Sweet Spot Table 4: Breakdown of scalable strategic norms Table 5: Member States with more than 1,000 peacekeeping troops, 1990-2015 Table 6 With 16 ongoing peacekeeping operations currently deploying almost 100,000 troops, United Nations peacekeeping is the largest single source of multilateral military intervention in conflict zones. Because UN peacekeeping is entirely dependent on voluntary contributions from Member States, there a pressing need to better understand why nations contribute peacekeeping troops in the first place. Individual national rationales for peacekeeping contribution vary significantly, and incentives may include regional hegemonic aspirations, positive economic benefits from peacekeeping, desiring a seat at the Security Council, or a combination of any number of incentives. This has made it difficult to provide a generalized explanation about why states provide peacekeepers. This thesis proposes a model for understanding the peacekeeping contribution issue under the lens of strategic culture. The strategic culture approach focuses on elite beliefs about the objectives of the use of force, with national factors such a geography, history, domestic politics, and bureaucracy forming into cohesive and competing norms about the purpose of the military. Drawing on the fourth generation of strategic culture literature, this dissertation argues that strategic culture serves as an...

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“…Traditional military geography may have continued as a small, niche area for inquiry in the US, but mainstream human geography moved on. In doing so, an emergent critical approach in human geography from the early 1990s, with its critiques of power and its attendant effects on inequalities and social justice at scales from the individual to the global (Best 2009;Berg 2010;Berg and Best, forthcoming), appeared increasingly reluctant to engage with questions of military activity and militarism (Woodward 2005). However, the wars of the first decade of the twenty-first century in Iraq and Afghanistan, coupled with mounting evidence for the effects of the exercise of global military ambitions primarily (though not exclusively) by the US, have started to effect change in the agendas for human geography.…”

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Geography, military geography, and critical military studies

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Critical Military Studies

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This paper is about the distinctive contributions which contemporary military geography might make to the wider critical military studies project. The paper notes the relative absence of the study of military topics across Anglophone human geography in the second half of the twentieth century, and the resurgence of interest in the spatialities of militarism and military activities over the past decade or so in tandem with the emergence of critical geography. The paper then goes on to examine three key tropes of geographical inquiry to illustrate how a critical military studies alert to spatiality might develop further. These are geography's rich tradition of research and writing about landscape, geography's engagement with concepts of representation, and geography's theorizing on scale. The paper argues that a geographically informed critical military studies can be illuminating on matters of war and militarism because of its attention to the located, situated, and constitutive natures of military power and its effects. The paper concludes with a reflexive commentary on what critical military studies might take from ongoing debates in human geography about the necessity of engagement and co-inquiry with research subjects, when a focus on military topics raises ethical questions about collaboration. We argue that transparency, accountability, and awareness of the multiple and complex politics of academic inquiry are necessarily part of the wider critical military studies project.

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From Military Geography to militarism's geographies: disciplinary engagements with the geographies of militarism and military activities

Cited by 129 publications

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