Military Workfare: The Soldier and Social Citizenship in Canada (Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy)
By Deborah Cowen.
Description
Despite the centrality of war in social and political thought, the military remains marginal in academic and public conceptions of citizenship, and the soldier seems to be thought of as a peripheral or even exceptional player. Military Workfare draws on five decades of restricted archival material and critical theories on war and politics to examine how a military model of work, discipline, domestic space, and the social self has redefined citizenship in the wake of the Second World War. It is also a study of the complex, often concealed ways in which organized violence continues to shape n...
ISBN(s)
0802092330, 9780802092335
