Martialling Peace: How the Peacekeeping Myth Legitimises Warfare (Advances in Critical Military Studies) - Hardcover

Wegner, Nicole

 
9781474492836: Martialling Peace: How the Peacekeeping Myth Legitimises Warfare (Advances in Critical Military Studies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1474492835 ISBN 13: 9781474492836
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

Examines the mythology of the peacekeeper and how it functions to sustain militarism in global politics Offers novel conceptual framing of martial peace and the peacekeeper myth Critically examines common understandings of 'warfare' and 'peace' Provides new ways of thinking about liberal peace and 'peaceful' societies and the roles that academics, government and publics play in reproducing structural violences Builds on Howell's (2018) martial politics framework and offers important contributions to existing critical examinations of militarisation This is a not a book about peacekeeping practices. This is a book about storytelling, fantasies and the ways that people connect emotionally to myths about peacekeeping. The celebration of peacekeeping as a legitimate and desirable use of military force is expressed through the unproblematised acceptance of militarism. Introducing a novel framework martial peace the book offers an in-depth examination of the Canadian Armed Forces missions to Afghanistan and the use of police violence against Indigenous protests in Canada as case examples where military violence has been justified in the name of peace. It critically investigates the peacekeeper myth and challenges the academic, government and popular beliefs that martial violence is required to sustain peace.

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Nicole Wegner is a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland

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Examines the mythology of the peacekeeper and how it functions to sustain militarism in global politicsThe peacekeeper – impartial, disciplined, helpful and restrained in their lethal capacity – is a powerful trope. This book examines the mythology of international peacekeeping, using Canada as a case study to explore how the peacekeeping myth both challenged and condoned combat activities in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2014. While Afghanistan was explicitly not a peacekeeping mission, peacekeeping mythology circulated throughout discourse about the War. Introducing a novel framework k– martial peace – Nicole Wegner offers an in-depth examination of the Canadian Armed Forces missions to Afghanistan and the use of police violence against Indigenous protests in Canada as case examples where military violence has been justified in the name of peace. In doing so, she reveals how gender, militarism and nationalism operated in political discourse to justify military force and violence in the name of peace. Martialling Peace critically investigates the peacekeeper myth and challenges academic, government and popular beliefs that martial violence is required to sustain peace.Nicole Wegner is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Gender and War at the University of Sydney, Australia.

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Verlag
Edinburgh University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1474492835
ISBN 13 
9781474492836
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
160
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