How America Justifies Its War: A Modern/Postmodern Aesthetics of Masculinity and Sovereignty

Mann, Bonnie

doi:10.1353/hyp.2006.0051

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“…Bonnie Mann argues the reason why spectacular statements of war, such as the treatise of “shock and awe”, were not countered with stunning public protests, relates back to the discursive link between masculinity and sovereignty. Mann suggests that the notions of war and masculinity are so embedded in the roots of western identity, that to interrogate them would be like “trying to leap on our own shadows” (Eagleton 2002 cited in Mann 2006, 150).…”

Section: Militarism Militarization and Sovereigntymentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender, Militarization and Sovereignty

Dowler¹

2012

Geography Compass

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Militarization is a process that we often consider restricted to the boundaries of the state. However this essay offers a feminist reformulation of militarization as a banal process that is furtively present in our everyday spaces. This essay focuses on some of the arguments put forth by both scholars of geopolitics and feminist political geography in order to understand how the process of militarization traverses not only at the scales of global politics but also with the intimates scales of the home and the body. Most importantly, the arguments presented in this essay are in agreement that militarization is a hegemonic process, which reinforces sovereignty, resulting in the creation of gendered political identities.

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Section: Militarism Militarization and Sovereigntymentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender, Militarization and Sovereignty

Dowler¹

2012

Geography Compass

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“…It is therefore necessary to acknowledge the definitions and history of masculinity within social, political, and armed conflict contexts. Within the context of war it is important to identify current studies, such as Bonnie Mann's (2006) gendered analysis of America's justification of the current Iraq war. Mann argues, "when war becomes the way that a hyper-masculine national style is constituted and reconstituted, then it is beyond the mundane structures of international law" (159).…”

Section: Man and War -Masculinity And The Military Heromentioning

confidence: 99%

The hero's journey: tracing the history of the myth to the celebrity

Goldberg¹

2021

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The terms "hero," "heroism," and, more recently, "heroine," are broad, wide ranging, and contested terms prominent within academia yet there remains a general consensus that heroes are, historically, an essential component to society. This paper will identify that there are diverse Western cultural conceptions surrounding the hero. It is therefore important to trace the meaning behind the concept and draw conclusions as to whether or not the hero narrative has developed or shifted over time. Through an intensive review of the literature on the "hero," this research paper critically identifies the historical constructions, empirical observations, and theoretical analyses in order to explore and understand how the hero narrative has changed or retained timeless qualities of meaning or myth. As the hero developed from the Classical times to the present, through the periods of oral tradition to electronic media, those who are identified as a "hero" became more and more far-reaching. This paper constructs several empirical tables that identify similarities and differences concerning how Western society's classification of heroes has developed. By taking into account the different types of heroic figures that have existed across time, including Greek gods, soldiers, community workers, and celebrities, this paper establishes whether or not the conception of the "hero" changes depending on war, gender, race, popular culture, historical time period, and changes in communication technology.

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“…Thus, even as a singular act, it must necessarily signal the deeply political, structurally gendered consequences of state-sanctioned killing. If the audio recording on YouTube is understood as a play within a play, the politically constituted framing of war is the larger piece of gendered aesthetics and theatricality (Mann 2006). The citational expression, evoking Hamlet , contributes to a particular aesthetic event and “aesthetic events register a double moment, which, at its most basic, is both a destabilizing aesthetic or performative experience where thought is made strange to itself and a moment of reflection on the aesthetic, political or ethical consequences of this experience” (L.…”

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Military Masculinity and the Act of Killing in Hamlet and Afghanistan

Partis-Jennings¹

2017

Men and Masculinities

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This article looks at a 2011 incident which led to a soldier (Marine A) being convicted of murdering an Afghan insurgent. It focuses on the words (quoting from Hamlet) spoken by the Marine as he carried out the killing: “shuffle off this mortal coil, you cunt” and examines the link that these words establish between the war in Afghanistan and Shakespeare’s play. The article explores the connections between Hamlet and Marine A and how their actions can be understood to both parallel each other and diverge around ethical contemplation; access to military masculinity; the banishing of the feminine; and a process of mediation, performance, and interpretation.

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How America Justifies Its War: A Modern/Postmodern Aesthetics of Masculinity and Sovereignty

Cited by 5 publications

References 1 publication

Gender, Militarization and Sovereignty

Gender, Militarization and Sovereignty

The hero's journey: tracing the history of the myth to the celebrity

Military Masculinity and the Act of Killing in Hamlet and Afghanistan

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