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7 results in Advances in Critical Military Studies

Settler Military Politics
  • Militarisation and the Aesthetics of War Commemoration
  • Federica Caso
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    18 March 2026
    Print publication:
    30 June 2024
  • Settler Military Politics provides a thorough investigation of the relationship between settler colonialism and militarisation drawing from the Australian experience. In this book, Caso develops the concept of settler military politics to identify the relationship between settler colonialism and militarisation. The book argues that militarisation is a rationality for governing the settler polity and consolidates the settler colonial project. It investigates settler military politics through an in-depth analysis of the under explored aesthetics of war commemoration in Australia and the role of the Australian War Memorial.

The Cultural Politics of Veterans' Narratives
  • Beyond the Wire
  • Nick Caddick
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    18 March 2026
    Print publication:
    31 August 2024
  • The Cultural Politics of Veterans' Narratives investigates the role of veterans' stories in our collective cultural and political life. Drawing on contemporary narrative theory, it offers a conceptual framework for studying veterans' narratives, followed by a series of unique empirical chapters dealing with different genres of veteran storytelling, including trauma, transition, culture and identity, and the Afghanistan war memoir. The book questions the British veteran as a political figure, exploring what their stories tell us about the morality and politics of war as well as military life. It also traces how social norms about militarism, nationalism, and patriotism pivot as a result. Caddick considers what the stakes are for veterans as their stories interact with wider cultural narratives, and for society in grappling with the 'militarist terms of reference' these stories impart to us.

Mobilising China's One-Child Generation
  • Education, Nationalism and Youth Militarisation in the PRC
  • Orna Naftali
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    24 January 2026
    Print publication:
    31 August 2024
  • Drawing on a wide variety of Chinese-language publications and in-depth interviews with high-school students, Mobilising China's One-Child Generation provides systematic evidence of the spread of martial logic and techniques into Chinese schools. The book explores how China has implemented Patriotic Education and National Defence Education programmes to foster love for the nation and the Party-state, mobilise the population to fight modern wars in the information age, and encourage youth to join the army. It studies how these programmes present the tropes of war and the military to youth, and how they are related to shifting constructions of gender and the national collectivity. It also documents students' varied perceptions - and notably contestations - of this militarised ethos, complicating our understanding of popular nationalism and militarisation processes in this authoritarian global power.

Martialling Peace
  • How the Peacekeeper Myth Legitimises Warfare
  • Nicole Wegner
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    07 March 2025
    Print publication:
    01 June 2023
  • 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 unproblematized 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.

Politics of Impunity

The Gendered and Colonial Lives of Gurkhas in Private Security
  • From Military to Market
  • Amanda Chisholm
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    19 October 2023
    Print publication:
    31 December 2022
  • This book explores the ways in which affect, colonial histories, and militarism organise global security workforces within private military and security companies (PMSCs). It locates its analysis with Gurkhas; a group of militarised men from Nepal with over 200-years of military experience with the British and Indian armies and the Singaporean police, who now participate as security contractors in global markets. These men are celebrated in British popular culture for their heroic martial attributes and their broader military service to the United Kingdom. However, less known, is the fact that many Gurkhas located back in Nepal and their families are drawn into these markets under often exploitative relations. Drawing upon over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork with unprecedented access to these security communities throughout Nepal and in Afghanistan, the book's motivating questions are how security is made through these market relations and how is this security experienced by Gurkhas and their families.

Conscientious Objection in Turkey
  • A Socio-legal Analysis of the Right to Refuse Military Service
  • Demet Asli Çaltekin
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    14 July 2023
    Print publication:
    31 August 2022
  • This book provides a socio-legal perspective to critical military studies by asking socio-legal questions about military conscription in Turkey: How do the international and domestic laws approach the conflict between the law and conscience? Why does Turkey insist on the non-recognition of the right to conscientious objection? How are those pursuing their conscience affected by such non-recognition? These questions are important as the law is shaped by the socio-cultural structures in which it operates, and any attempt to create a social change also necessitates understanding and challenging the legal framework. In this light, the book argues that one cannot fully understand and, as a result, resist the militarisation of society without understanding the relationship between the law and social norms.