Pleasure and Depletion in Contemporary Militarism
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2026
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-3074-3 (ISBN)
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
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Why do so many US service members, veterans and military families continue to affectively invest in militarism when the physical and emotional costs are so high?
This book asks why US service members, veterans and military families continue to affectively invest in militarism – both as a structure of global politics and in their everyday lives – when they have experienced first-hand, its physical and emotional costs?
Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with military communities and ethnographic insights from a range of military sites, the book examines how those service members, veterans and military families who have been physically and emotionally depleted through their intimate relations to US militarism are the same individuals who have simultaneously experienced its concomitant pleasures, joys, and have built lives and worlds through their attachment to it.
Ultimately, the book argues these dual and contradictory experiences are central to militarism’s endurance in global politics; both through individuals continued affective investment in a militarised pathway and through the incremental and incomplete ways that militarism is reproduced in their everyday lives.
This book asks why US service members, veterans and military families continue to affectively invest in militarism – both as a structure of global politics and in their everyday lives – when they have experienced first-hand, its physical and emotional costs?
Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with military communities and ethnographic insights from a range of military sites, the book examines how those service members, veterans and military families who have been physically and emotionally depleted through their intimate relations to US militarism are the same individuals who have simultaneously experienced its concomitant pleasures, joys, and have built lives and worlds through their attachment to it.
Ultimately, the book argues these dual and contradictory experiences are central to militarism’s endurance in global politics; both through individuals continued affective investment in a militarised pathway and through the incremental and incomplete ways that militarism is reproduced in their everyday lives.
Julia Welland is Associate Professor of War Studies at University of Warwick, UK.
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Feminist curiosity about war and militarism
1. Feeling Militarism
2. Pleasurable Bodies
3. Affected Bodies
4. Caring Bodies
5. Depleted Bodies
Conclusion: Affectively Sustaining Militarism
Three Contributions
Contribution 1: Conceptualising militarism as Felt
Contribution 2: The Structural and Parasitic Violence of ‘Feeling Good’
Contribution 3: Continued Affective Investment in US Militarism
Implications and Ickiness
Writing-while-teaching
Bibliography
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.3.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Advances in Critical Military Studies |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-3074-7 / 1399530747 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-3074-3 / 9781399530743 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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