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Masquerades of War (Hardcover)
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Masquerades of War (Hardcover)
Series: War, Politics and Experience
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This collection explores the concepts and practices of masquerade
as they apply to concepts and practices of war. The contributors
insist that masquerades are everyday aspects of the politics,
praxis, and experiences of war, while also discovering that finding
masquerades and tracing how they work with war is hardly simple.
With a range of theories, innovative methodologies, and contextual
binoculars, masquerade emerges as a layered and complex phenomenon.
It can appear as state deception, lie, or camouflage, as in the
population-centric American warfare in Iraq that was sold as good
for the local people, or the hidden violence Russian military
forces used on each other and on local men in Chechnya. Masquerade
can also be part of a people's war logic as exemplified by the
Maoist movement in India. Yet masquerade can also be understood as
a normal social mask that people don to foreground an identity or
belief from one's cluttered repertoire in order to gain agency.
Elements of masquerade can appear in texts that proclaim seemingly
unequivocal positions while simultaneously yet subtly suggesting
opposing positions. Masquerades of all kinds also seem ubiquitous
in fieldwork research and in resistance movements in war zones.
Perhaps masquerade, though, is ultimately the denial of death
lurking behind the clarion call of security, a call that bolsters
war by making militarized policing normal to secure populations
from terrorists. These interpretations and others comprise
Masquerades of War. This book will be of much interest to students
of critical war studies, critical security, conflict studies and IR
in general.
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