...This chapter discusses the intellectual movement and the decline of student activism in Thailand. Students played a crucial role in Thailand’s national politics in from 1950s to 1970s. Students forged a close alliance with intellectuals during the period of military dictatorship, to provide...

...Military peace movement members were outsiders in both the military and the peace movement because they tried to be connected to both, but they believe that this combined identity enhanced the movement’s attempts to effect change. Four social-psychological motivations for unlikely activists...

...This chapter examines the historical, political, and philosophical intimacies between Japanese and U.S. imperial projects. More specifically, it explores how the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized—which is mediated through the threat and use of military violence—is narrativized...

... of thought, now an accepted and highly influential geopolitical attitude supplanting ideas of sustainability with the demand for “adaptation.” In this extensive historical study of scientific, military, political and economic formations from the seventeenth century to the present, Marzec reveals how...

...Embedded in a wide spectrum of military-identified organizations critical of U.S. government policies, the military peace movement had four main organizations. Activists within these faced greater risks for peace movement participation than their civilian counterparts, and these risks helped...

...Activists strategically deployed their combined military/peace identities in order to attract attention, demonstrate legitimacy, reframe “patriotism” and “troop support” in ways that promoted peace, and reach those unconvinced by traditional peace movement frames. Identity strategies were...

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...Although the Iraq War ended, the military peace movement continues organizing to stop the over-extension of the military and better address the traumas facing servicemembers returned from war. The book’s findings are used to deepen theory about the civilian-military divide and the role of emotions...

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...This chapter presents a comparative analysis of two products of the military-entertainment complex—Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2: WWII Pacific Theater (2000) and the film Pearl Harbor (2000)—that remediate narrative and interactive forms of temporal...

...Chapter One traces the rise of the military industrial complex and the US National Security State, focusing the connections being establishing throughout the 20^th century between the formal and natural sciences and the military. It reveals that the ontology forming the basis...

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...This introductory chapter demonstrates the ways in which the academy’s role in supporting state policies is crucial, even—and particularly—as a presumably liberal institution. As U.S. military and overseas interventions are increasingly framed as humanitarian wars, it is liberal ideologies...

...This chapter examines the role of cinematic technologies in the performance of international justice, with particular emphasis on three films in the first set of International Military Tribunals (IMTs) in Europe, also known as the Nuremberg Trials. The Nuremberg Trials were a set of military...

... with twenty-five francs in his pocket, Lang began to sketch postcards, caricatures, watercolors, and easel art, selling them to tourists for coffee and bread. By April 1913, Lang was living in Paris, nurturing a dream of becoming a painter. He enlisted in the Austrian military on January 12, 1915...

...This chapter explores male-on-male sexual violence in the contemporary South Korean military as well as the conditions of such sexual conduct and homoerotic practices based on surveys and first-hand interviews with military personnel. It also analyzes the mass media and official military responses...

...When the military’s ruling party violently quashed Burma’s pro-democracy movement, diplomatic condemnation quickly followed—to little effect. But when Burma’s activists began linking the movement to others around the world, the result was dramatically different. This book explains how Burma’s pro...

... for the District of Columbia pronounced it “highly unlikely” that he would ever be eligible for parole. If this is true, Pollard, who is only 32, could serve 40 years or more. Such a punishment, for the crime of passing military intelligence to an ally in peacetime, is almost unheard of. The sentence was also...

... as they travel between small towns. The narrator also thinks about the nature of beauty and the Vicomte de Bassard past experiences in the French army. This is a tragicomic tale with a superb evocation of life in a military town in Normandy in the early nineteenth century. This short story is about twenty...

...This chapter suggests that the invisibility of Guam historically and contemporaneously is representative of what it describes as the “banal coloniality” of its official “organized unincorporated” status as a territory of the United States. On an island where the U.S. military controls one third...