Militarization

<i>Militarization: A Reader</i> offers a range of critical perspectives on the dynamics of militarization as a social economic political cultural and environmental phenomenon. It portrays militarism as the condition in which military values and frameworks come to dominate state structures and public culture both in foreign relations and in the domestic sphere. Featuring short readable essays by anthropologists historians political scientists cultural theorists and media commentators the <i>Reader </i>probes militarism's ideologies including those that valorize warriors armed conflict and weaponry. Outlining contemporary militarization processes at work around the world the <i>Reader</i> offers a wide-ranging examination of a phenomenon that touches the lives of billions of people.<br><br>In collaboration with Catherine Besteman Andrew Bickford Catherine Lutz Katherine T. McCaffrey Austin Miller David H. Price David Vine