War: Interdisciplinary Investigations
edited by Julia Boll
ISBN: 978-1-904710-48-6
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CONTENTS
| Introduction |
| Part I: Case Studies |
| Black Soldiers: Military Force and Slavery in the Early Modern Atlantic World Victor Enthoven |
| Moving to the West: Mass Displacement and State-Society Relations in Wartime China, 1937-1945 Lu Liu |
| Breaking Silences and Telling Stories: Renegotiating the Meaning of the Border War in Post-Apartheid South Africa Gary Baines |
| The Madness of Coalitions Thomas M. Kane |
| Part II: The Mediation and Mediatisation of War |
| The Language of War: George W. Bush’s Discursive Practises in Securitising the Western Value System in the War on Terror Janicke Stramer |
| The Immediacy of Narrated Combat: Operation Iraqi Freedom and Public Spectacle Jason T. McEntee |
| Experiencing War the Video Game Way Sue Scheibler |
| Representations of British Soldierly Identity in Print Media and Soldiers’ own Photographic Accounts K. Neil Jenkings, Trish Winter and Rachel Woodward |
| Part III: Writing about War |
| Ethical Crossings in War Writing: Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost and the Sri Lankan Civil War Elke Rosochacki |
| Mobility and Transformation: Engaging the Enemy in Larry Heinemann’s Paco’s Story David Boulting |
| The Unlisted Character: Representing War on Stage Julia Boll |
| Part IV: Protection: Transitory, Illusory or Reality? |
| Is the War on Terror Real? Should it be? Avery Plaw |
| Rights and Duties of the Individual to Disobey Manifestly Illegal Orders under International Law Hitomi Takemura |
| International Security and the Paradox of Proximity in the Coverage of War Using Convergent ICTs Lucas Walsh |
| Part V: Ethics, Morality and Philosophy of War |
| Torture and the “Ticking Bomb”: a Case Study of Fantasy in the so-called War on Terror Bob Brecher |
| The Mechanics of Judgment on the Topic of War Kimana Zulueta-Fuelscher |
| The Laws of War in Outer Space: Some Legal Implications for the Jus ad Bellum and the Jus in Bello of the Militarisation and Weaponisation of Outer Space Arjen Vermeer |
| Questioning Just War Thinking Tarik Kochi |
| Part VI: Prohibition, Interventions and Alternatives |
| Reconstructing War as a Pathology of Under-Development and the Imperative for Western Humanitarian Intervention Julien Barbara |
| The Killers and the Dead: An Exploration of the Viability of and Alternatives to Lethal Warfare Seth B. Scott |
| Reflecting on Human Security , or: About the Inherent Human Nature of National Security Efstathios T. Fakiolas |
| Teaching Nonviolence Helen Fox |
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