Demilitarizing the Future
Reimagining Landscapes of War
Edited by Rebecca Kastleman
Joshua Reno
Darcie DeAngelo
Leah Zani
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Demilitarizing the Future draws from art, anthropology, and activism to investigate the entrenchment of militarism in everyday lives and consider novel imaginaries of its dissolution—of peacemaking, community, and shared equitable futures. The pieces collected in this anthology track across the Korean DMZ, fortified homes of high-crime Jamaica, the tenements of Palestine, police drones in the skies over U.S. cities, and other sites in the global networks of warfare and military preparedness. The authors represent various fields from anthropology, poetry, literary studies, and community organizing to together present a multidisciplinary collection of creative scholarship. In addition to typical chapters with empirically backed arguments, we include one anthropologist-poet contributor, Nomi Stone, and one photographer, Boone Nguyen, who both showcase the interdisciplinary experiments of our humanistic social science about militarized landscapes. Rather than presuming that the aftermath of war requires the reimposition of new military infrastructures, we have collected a variety of pieces that speak to the socially and artistically generative potentialities of military waste infrastructures as well as their enduring toxicities. Militarism and preparedness for war undergirds the infrastructure and design of everyday lives across the globe and its satellites, but the processes of demilitarization offer their own forms and affordances. Within this collection, we do not insist on a dichotomy between militarism and demilitarization, but rather invite our authors and artists to depict these forces as a categorical range with interdependent imaginaries.
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Demilitarizing the Future draws from art, anthropology, and activism to investigate the entrenchment of militarism in everyday lives and consider novel imaginaries of its dissolution—of peacemaking, community, and shared equitable futures.
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Anthem Studies in Peace, Conflict and Development
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