Making War on Bodies

Catherine Baker is a Senior Lecturer in 20th Century History and Director of the MA Provision in the School of History, Languages and Cultures at the University of Hull. She has previously published articles in the International Feminist Journal of Politics, Critical Military Studies and the European Journal of International Relations, among others. She has published monographs with Palgrave Macmillan and Ashgate.

• Introduction: Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International PoliticsCatherine Baker1: Basic TrainingDan Evans2: The Political Aesthetics of the Body of the Soldier in PainFederica Caso3: Svetlana Alexievich’s Soviet Women Veterans and the Aesthetics of the Disabled Military Body: Staring at the Unwomanly Face of WarCatherine Baker4: Breaking the Silence: Embodiment, Militarisation and Military Dissent in the Israel/Palestine ConflictSorana Jude5: Death Becomes Him: The Hypervisibility of Martyrdom and Invisibility of the Wounded in the Iconography of Lebanese Militarised MasculinitiesHenri Myrttinen6: Ginger Cats and Cute Puppies: Animals, Affect, and Militarisation in the Crisis in UkraineJennifer G. Mathers7: Embodying War, Becoming Warriors: Media, Militarisation and the Case of Islamic State’s Online PropagandaDaniel Møller Ølgaard8: The Defender Collection: Militarisation, Historical Mythology and the Everyday Affective Politics of Nationalist Fashion in CroatiaCatherine Baker9: Images of Insurgency: Reading the Cuban Revolution through Military Aesthetics and EmbodimentJane Tynan10: Seize the Time!: Military Aesthetics, Symbolic Revolution and the Black Panther PartyAmy Abugo Ongiri.

From martyrs’ posters to revolutionary fashion, animal memes to jihadi videos, this brilliantly insightful and interdisciplinary volume sheds new light upon the affective circuits and the intimate politics of military power.