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Children, Securitization, War and Peace: Perspectives from the West book cover

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Children, Securitization, War and Peace Perspectives from the West

By Kathrin Horschelmann Copyright 2018
224 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

It is not just in ‘failed states’ and dictatorships that children become a key target for military recruitment and the politics of national security. The ‘securitisation’ in western societies today relies equally strongly on the multi-faceted enrolment of children in national and international security politics, and on the figuring of childhood as a phase for the formation of future... Read more

1. Introduction: Children as subjects and agents in the international politics of war and peace  Part I: Generational biopolitics: Governing children through and for security politics  2. Citizen-soldiers: Neoliberalism, generational politics and the defence of the new world (dis)order  3. Loyalty, obedience and discipline: the divided politics of militarising education and citizenship  4. Fun, games, adventure: cultures of war in children’s everyday lives  5. Fighting fit: producing citizen-soldiers through embodied cultures of war  6. Serve thy country, rescue the world: recruiting children to the reserve army of military labour  Part II: Embodied geopolitics and the political agency of children  7. Violations: embodying military conflict, violence and war 8) Dissent and citizenship: children as active agents in global security politics  8. Dissent and citizenship: children as active agents in global security politics  Part III: Connected security futures  9. For a feminist alter-geopolitics of care

Biography

Kathrin Hörschelmann, Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Durham, UK.

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