Security Disarmed

ISBN: 9780813543604

出版年: 2008-8

页数: 320

定价: $ 30.45

内容简介

From the history of state terrorism in Latin America, to state- and group-perpetrated plunder and genocide in Africa, to war and armed conflicts in the Middle East, militarizationathe heightened role of organized aggression in societyacontinues to painfully shape the lives of millions of people around the world.In Security Disarmed, scholars, policy planners, and activists come together to think critically about the human cost of violence and viable alternatives to armed conflict. Arranged in four partsaalternative paradigms of security, cross-national militarization, militarism in the United States, and pedagogical and cultural concernsathe book critically challenges militarization and voices an alternative encompassing vision of human security by analyzing the relationships among gender, race, and militarization. This collection of essays evaluates and resists the worldwide crisis of militarizationaincluding but going beyond American military engagements in the twenty-first century.