Introducing Children's and Young People's Critical Geopolitics

Benwell, Matthew C.; Hopkins, Peter

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“…Implicitly, this article also touches upon connections between the different theoretical approaches outlined in section 2. Both critical geopolitics and critical terrorism studies have recognised the importance of educational contexts for a while (Benwell & Hopkins, 2016;Quartermaine, 2016).…”

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Teaching terrorism, saving the state? Education and geopolitical imaginations of terrorism in 12 violently challenged states

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2020

Political Geography

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The role of education in political socialisation and the importance of terrorism discourses in promoting (or silencing) certain interests have long been acknowledged. This study combines both themes by asking: How do school textbooks, sanctioned by states that are violently challenged by internal opposition, discuss the issue of terrorism? I draw on, and contribute to, four distinct, yet related streams of research: critical geopolitics, critical terrorism studies, geographies of education, and young people's geographies. Simultaneously, while most work on the topic focuses on individual cases (typically of Western countries), I conduct the first comparative analysis of twelve countries from different world regions: China,

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Teaching terrorism, saving the state? Education and geopolitical imaginations of terrorism in 12 violently challenged states

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2020

Political Geography

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“…Militarization progresses when the military becomes an integral part of everyday life. Military logics, values, and norms might be experienced, felt, or engaged with by purchasing children's toys or playing video games (Benwell and Hopkins, 2016). Following Linda Åhäll's (2016) observation that practices of militarization dance their way into everyday life, this article investigates different instruments that proto-states in the Donbas region employed to bind society to the military, comprising a strategy for control.…”

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Militarization of childhood(s) in Donbas: ‘Growing together with the Republic’

Hoban¹

2021

Cooperation and Conflict

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This essay critically examines how the militarization of childhood(s) takes place in the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics. The intensification of hostilities in Eastern Ukraine in mid-2014 has had a profound impact on local populations, particularly children. While no systematic recruitment and participation of children in conflict has been reported, childhood has become what Agathangelou and Killian would characterize as a ‘site for displacement and maneuvering for militarization.’ Drawing on feminist methodologies, I examine processes of the militarization of children’s everyday lives. This article investigates a range of ways in which authorities of proto-states in the Donbas region address children as participants and potential collaborators in the processes of militarization. In my analysis, I examine how war and preparation for it are simultaneously co-constituted by the geopolitical—legitimation of new proto-states—and everyday practices, such as engaging with school curricula, visiting museums, and (re)inventing historical narratives. Understanding of mechanisms that militarize childhood and how children become subjects and objects of militarization allows for a critical analysis that reveals spaces of everyday violence. This article, therefore, enhances our understanding about the intersections of childhood, militarism, and security.

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“…Scholars have explored the ways militarism might be experienced, felt or engaged with in childhood, such as in the school curricula, museums, toys, films and video games (Carter, Kirby and Woodyer, 2016; Doucet, 2005; Gor, 2003; Hörschelmann, 2016; MacDonald, 2008; Power, 2007; Reagan, 1994; Shaw, 2010) as well as the relationship between militarism, childhood and recruitment to the armed forces (Rech, 2014, 2016; Wells, 2014). However, while debates about war remembrance and the spaces they occupy, the performances they invoke, and the people they involve are central to understanding processes of militarisation, the involvement of children and young people in these commemorative practices, and their responses to them, has received less attention (Benwell and Hopkins, 2016). This article seeks to address the dearth in the literature by capturing children as acting subjects in this social space and, by extension, argue that children, young people, the figure or imaginary of the child, and varied youthful engagements are inherent to contemporary discourses and practices of remembrance, not simply incidental.…”

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‘Remembrance isn’t working’: First World War battlefield tours and the militarisation of British youth during the centenary

Pennell

2020

Childhood

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Between 2014 and 2019, secondary school pupils from every state school in England were given the opportunity to visit the battlefields of the Western Front as part of the UK government’s flagship educational initiative to mark the centenary of the First World War. Based on empirical research conducted with pupil participants on the First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme, this article explores the processes of militarisation present within these tours as well as the way young people participated in and made sense of these practices.

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Introducing Children's and Young People's Critical Geopolitics

Cited by 4 publications

References 1 publication

Teaching terrorism, saving the state? Education and geopolitical imaginations of terrorism in 12 violently challenged states

Teaching terrorism, saving the state? Education and geopolitical imaginations of terrorism in 12 violently challenged states

Militarization of childhood(s) in Donbas: ‘Growing together with the Republic’

‘Remembrance isn’t working’: First World War battlefield tours and the militarisation of British youth during the centenary

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