Vol. 3: EMERGENCY AS SECURITY: Liberal Empire at Home and Abroad
Edited by Kyle McLoughlin & Maximilian Forte
The New Imperialism, Vol. 3, presents advanced research by some of the participants in the 2013 seminar on the new imperialism, in sociology and anthropology at Concordia University. Chapters in this volume offer some profound theoretical and analytical insights into the history and complexity of contemporary imperialism, as well as developing a useful conceptual vocabulary for analyzing the imperial landscape.This volume’s impressive scope ranges from description and analysis of the historical context of the first “new imperialism,” that of Britain in the late 1880s, along with theorizing the normative, psychological, and socio-economic transformations of neoliberal imperialism and U.S. exceptionalism. Also included are the gender dynamics of militarism; analysis of the “men of the frontier” syndrome; the relationships between paternalism, effeminization, and imperialism; and, even the beginnings of an ambiguous queering of empire. Furthermore, the links between imperialism, ecology, and environmentalism, and the unequal environmental exchange of the contemporary world system, also come into focus. Retrospective analysis of the watershed events surrounding Hurricane Katrina in 2005 raises not only the specter of “humanitarian intervention” (still primarily other- and outward-oriented), but also the rise of the nonprofit-industrial complex. Chapters on the military-industrial complex, on the other hand, address the domestication of militarization in policing and surveillance, the militarization of entertainment media, and the militarization of anthropology. Finally, we consider guidelines for an anti-imperial anthropology.
Contributors to this volume: Philip Capozzi, Max Forte, Élie Jalbert, Kyle McLoughlin, Nathaniel Millington, Angela Noel, Nicole Pas, Gretchen Smith, Julian Stasky, and H. Jordane Struck.
Hard Cover ISBN 978-0-9868021-1-9
Paperback ISBN 978-0-9868021-3-3
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Contributors to this volume: Philip Capozzi, Max Forte, Élie Jalbert, Kyle McLoughlin, Nathaniel Millington, Angela Noel, Nicole Pas, Gretchen Smith, Julian Stasky, and H. Jordane Struck.
Hard Cover ISBN 978-0-9868021-1-9
Paperback ISBN 978-0-9868021-3-3
To order the hardcover (library edition) click here.
To order the paperback (trade edition) click here.
To obtain an alternate version of the free e-book, click here.
To obtain a bookmarked version of the free e-book, or individual chapter files, click here.