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Fighting for Peace
Fighting for Peacebrings to light an important yet neglected aspect of opposition to the Iraq War-the role of veterans and their families. Drawing on extensive participant observation and interviews, Lisa Leitz demonstrates how the harrowing war experiences of veterans and their families motivated a significant number of them to engage in peace activism.
Married to a Navy pilot herself, Leitz documents how military peace activists created a movement that allowed them to merge two seemingly contradictory sides of their lives: an intimate relation to the military and antiwar activism. Members of the movement strategically deployed their combined military-peace activist identities to attract media attention, assert their authority about the military and war, and challenge dominant pro-war sentiment. By emphasizing the human costs of war, activists hoped to mobilize American citizens and leaders who were detached from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, bring the wars to an end, and build up programs to take care of returning veterans and their families.
The stories inFighting for Peaceultimately reveal that America's all-volunteer force is contributing to a civilian-military divide that leaves civilians with little connection to the sacrifices of the military. Increasingly, Leitz shows, veterans and their families are being left to not only fight America's wars but also to fight against them.
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'I am an American' : filming the fear of difference
From Samuel Huntington's highly controversial Who Are We? to the urgent appeal of Naomi Wolf's The End of America, Americans are increasingly reflecting on questions of democracy, multiculturalism, and national identity. Yet such debates take place largely at the level of elites, leaving out ordinary American citizens, who have much to offer about the lived reality behind the phrase, \"I am an American.\"
Cynthia Weber set out on a journey across post-9/11 America in search of a deeper understanding of what it means to be an American today. The result is this brave and captivating memoir that gives a voice to ordinary citizens for whom the terrorist attacks of 2001—and their lingering aftermath—live on in collective memory. Heartrending first-person testimonials reveal how the ongoing fear of terrorists and immigrants has betrayed America's core values of fairness and equality, which have been further weakened by polarizing international and domestic responses. Considered together, these portraits also provide a sharp contrast to the idealized vision of Americanness frequently spun by media and politicians.
Far more than a mere remembrance book about September 11, 'I am an American' offers precisely the kind of ground-level empathy needed to reignite a meaningful national debate about who we are and who we might become as a people and a nation.
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Stalemate: autonomy and insurgency along the China-Myanmar border
\"This book is an ethnographic account of political relations in an autonomous highland region in Myanmar, governed by the country's largest insurgent group, the United Wa State Army\"--.
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Pop culture goes to war
Pop Culture Goes to War, by Geoff Martin and Erin Steuter, explores the persistence of militarism in American popular culture in the war on terror, from 9/11 to the present day. The authors detail the role of Hollywood and the entertainment industries in rallying both the troops and the public for war and show how toys, video games, music, and television support contemporary militarism. At the same time that popular culture is enlisting support for militarism, it is also serving as a major source of resistance to the war on terror through the traditional mediums of music and movies, and increasingly through the humor and insight of anti-war artists who are jamming the culture of militarism. The satire of The Daily Show, The Simpsons, and South Park are further examples of so-called culture jamming. This book is for readers who question the persistence of a warrior culture and offers new insights into the perpetuation of militaristic values throughout American culture.
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Stalemate
Stalemate reveals the history
and contemporary politics of the United Wa State Army (UWSA),
Asia's strongest insurgent army on Myanmar's border with
China. This ethnographic tale recounts how a highland
group, often dismissed as rebels or narcotraffickers, maintains a
relational autonomy between two powerful lowland states. The Wa
polity engages rather than evades these surrounding states, yet
struggles to fit into their registers of sovereignty and
statehood.
Andrew Ong examines political culture among Wa elites and
people, UWSA external relations, and capital flows with neighboring
China, showing how Wa autonomy is enacted through careful
navigation of complex borderland geopolitics and the shadow
economy. He analyzes the seeming stalemate between the Myanmar
state and the UWSA as one of tactical dissonance-adopting
simultaneous postures of authority and subordination and creating
disruptions and connections. Stalemate illuminates how
seemingly ambiguous and disorderly practices of political
signaling, economic regulation, and military governance produce
relative stability, challenging our assumptions about state-like
processes at the peripheries.
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Not So Jewish, Not For Peace: How Jewish Voice for Peace falsifies Judaism and glorifies terrorism. A deep dive
When Congresswoman Ilhan Omar posted a tweet denounced by fellow Democrats as anti-Semitic, one self-styled \"Jewish\" group rallied to her defense and organized a social-media campaign, #IStandWithIlhan. When Britain's three Jewish newspapers published an unprecedented joint front-page editorial warning that the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn harbored anti-Semitism and constituted a threat to the Jewish community, one American Jewish organization issued a spirited defense of Corbyn, charging that antisemitism is being cynically exploited to target advocates of Palestinian rights. When some leaders and some entire local chapters of the 2019 Women's March withdrew in protest of anti-Semitic comments and actions by its national leaders, one Jewish organization declared itself proud to endorse the march. It coupled this affirmation with a swipe at the dissenters, charging accusations of antisemitism in the Women's March are being utilized in an attempt to undermine a powerful resistance movement that is taking on Trump and white supremacy.
Magazine Article
The Fight for Peace: A History of Antiwar Movements in America
Gottfried, Ted. The Fight for Peace: A History of Antiwar Movements in America. 2005. 136p. illus. Twenty-First Century. lib. ed., $26.60 (0-7613-2932-3). 303.6. Gottfried, Ted. The Fight for Peace: A History of Antiwar Movements in America. 2005. 136p. illus. Twenty-First Century. lib. ed., $26.60 (0-7613-2932-3). 303.6.
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