Masquerades of War

Introduction: All those masquerades and wars Part I: Genres of masquerade 1. The armour of Hector: From the mediation of violence to its masquerade 2. Seems he a dove?': The masquerades of conscientious objection 3. Drawing the line between violence and non-violence in Gandhi and Fanon: Deceits and conceits 4. The foundational masquerade: Security as sociology of death 5. Masquerading Maoists and the politics of securitization in India 6. Syrian masquerades of war 7. The fangs behind the mask: Everyday life in wartime Chechnya Part II: International theaters of war and masquerade 8. Masquerading genocide in Patricia McCormick's Never Fall Down: Rehearsing, restaging, remembering, and critiquing Pol Pot time 9. Pain as masquerades/Masquerades as pain Part III: How the West masquerades war 10. Enlisting Madison Avenue: Contemporary war masquerading as a communication enterprise 11. Hiding in the light: Drawings of arms fairs 12. Research in the rape capital of the world: Multiple masquerades - a (semi) fictional account 13. Terror Wars: Boston/Iraq

Biography

Christine Sylvester is professor of political science and of women's studies at the University of Connecticut, USA.