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Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity: Difference Incorporated

Autor Neda Atanasoski
en Limba Engleză Paperback – dec 2013
When is a war not a war? When it is undertaken in the name of democracy, against the forces of racism, sexism, and religious and political persecution? This is the new world of warfare that Neda Atanasoski observes in Humanitarian Violence, different in name from the old imperialism but not so different in kind. In particular, she considers U.S. militarism—humanitarian militarism—during the Vietnam War, the Soviet-Afghan War, and the 1990s wars of secession in the former Yugoslavia.
What this book brings to light—through novels, travel narratives, photojournalism, films, news media, and political rhetoric—is in fact a system of postsocialist imperialism based on humanitarian ethics. In the fiction of the United States as a multicultural haven, which morally underwrites the nation’s equally brutal waging of war and making of peace, parts of the world are subject to the violence of U.S. power because they are portrayed to be homogeneous and racially, religiously, and sexually intolerant—and thus permanently in need of reform. The entangled notions of humanity and atrocity that follow from such mediations of war and crisis have refigured conceptions of racial and religious freedom in the post–Cold War era. The resulting cultural narratives, Atanasoski suggests, tend to racialize ideological differences—whereas previous forms of imperialism racialized bodies. In place of the European racial imperialism, U.S. settler colonialism, and pre–civil rights racial constructions that associated racial difference with a devaluing of nonwhite bodies, Humanitarian Violence identifies an emerging discourse of race that focuses on ideological and cultural differences and makes postsocialist and Islamic nations the potential targets of U.S. disciplining violence.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780816680948
ISBN-10: 0816680949
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 10
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Minnesota Press
Colecția Univ Of Minnesota Press
Seria Difference Incorporated


Notă biografică

Neda Atanasoski is associate professor of feminist studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Cuprins

Contents
Introduction: The Racial Reorientations of U.S. Humanitarian Imperalism1. Racial Time and the Other: Mapping the Postsocialist Transition2. The Vietnam War and the Ethics of Failure: Heart of Darkness and the Emergence of Humanitarian Feeling at the Limits of Imperial Critique3. Restoring National Faith: The Soviet-Afghan War in U.S. Media and Politics4. Dracula as Ethnic Conflict: The Technologies of Humanitarian Militarism in Serbia and Kosovo5. Feminist Politics of Secular Redemption at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Epilogue. Beyond Spectacle: The Hidden Geographies of the War at Home
AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

Recenzii

"With clear and astute arguments that are executed with force and lucidity, Neda Atanasoski offers a wonderfully rich comparative study of postsocialist regions whose histories have been intertwined in various ways with American discursive and material practices and politics. The sustained focus on these kinds of U.S. historical impulses and their complex connections to Eastern Europe is a highly original and a much-needed intervention." —Katarzyna Marciniak, Ohio University

"Humanitarian Violence is transnational and interdisciplinary scholarship at its best. It offers a much needed deeper look at the constitution of the modern West, while at the same time convincingly arguing for the continued importance of literary analysis and suggesting ways in which this analysis can be related to visual genres such as photojournalism, film, and digital art." —Fatima El-Tayeb, University of California, San Diego

Descriere

Humanitarian Violence considers U.S. militarism—humanitarian militarism—during the Vietnam War, the Soviet-Afghan War, and the 1990s wars of secession in the former Yugoslavia. Neda Atanasoski reveals a system of postsocialist imperialism based on humanitarian ethics, identifying a discourse of race that focuses on ideological and cultural differences and makes postsocialist and Islamic nations the targets of U.S. disciplining violence.