Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community by Millar, Katharine M.
Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community by Millar, Katharine M.

Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community

In the past, it was assumed that men, as good citizens, would serve in the armed forces...
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Author: Katharine M. Millar
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Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community by Millar, Katharine M.

Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community

$1,607.27
Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community by Millar, Katharine M.

Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community

$1,607.27
Author: Katharine M. Millar
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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In the past, it was assumed that men, as good citizens, would serve in the armed forces in wartime. In the present, however, liberal democratic states increasingly rely on small, all-volunteer militaries deployed in distant wars of choice. While few people now serve in the armed forces, our cultural myths and narratives of warfare continue to reproduce a strong connection between military service, citizenship, and normative masculinity.

In Support the Troops, Katharine M. Millar provides an empirical overview of "support the troops" discourses in the US and UK during the early years of the global war on terror (2001-2010). As Millar argues, seemingly stable understandings of the relationship between military service, citizenship, and gender norms are being unsettled by changes in warfare. The effect is a sense of uneasiness about the meaning of what it means to be a "good" citizen, "good" person, and, crucially, a "good" man in a context where neither war nor military service easily align with existing cultural myths about wartime obligations and collective sacrifice. Instead we participate in the performance of supporting the troops, even when we oppose war--an act that appears not only patriotic and moral, but also apolitical. Failing to support the troops, either through active opposition or a lack of overt supportive actions, is perceived as not only offensive and inappropriately political, but disloyal and
dangerous. Millar asserts that military support acts as a new form of military service, which serves to limit anti-war dissent, plays a crucial role in naturalizing the violence of the transnational liberal order, and recasts war as an internal issue of solidarity and loyalty. Rigorous and politically challenging, Millar provides the first work to systematically examine "support the troops" as a distinct social phenomenon and offers a novel reading of this discourse through a gendered lens that places it in historical and transnational context.


Author: Katharine M. Millar
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 11/04/2022
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.29lbs
Size: 9.38h x 6.44w x 1.04d
ISBN: 9780197642337
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