The Resource Humanitarian violence : the U.S. deployment of diversity, Neda Atanasoski
Humanitarian violence : the U.S. deployment of diversity, Neda Atanasoski
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- Summary
- " When is a war not a war? When it is undertaken in the name of democracy, against the forces of racism, sexism, and religious and political persecution? This is the new world of warfare that Neda Atanasoski observes in Humanitarian Violence, different in name from the old imperialism but not so different in kind. In particular, she considers U.S. militarism--humanitarian militarism--during the Vietnam War, the Soviet-Afghan War, and the 1990s wars of secession in the former Yugoslavia. What this book brings to light--through novels, travel narratives, photojournalism, films, news media, and political rhetoric--is in fact a system of postsocialist imperialism based on humanitarian ethics. In the fiction of the United States as a multicultural haven, which morally underwrites the nation's equally brutal waging of war and making of peace, parts of the world are subject to the violence of U.S. power because they are portrayed to be homogeneous and racially, religiously, and sexually intolerant--and thus permanently in need of reform. The entangled notions of humanity and atrocity that follow from such mediations of war and crisis have refigured conceptions of racial and religious freedom in the post-Cold War era. The resulting cultural narratives, Atanasoski suggests, tend to racialize ideological differences--whereas previous forms of imperialism racialized bodies. In place of the European racial imperialism, U.S. settler colonialism, and pre-civil rights racial constructions that associated racial difference with a devaluing of nonwhite bodies, Humanitarian Violence identifies an emerging discourse of race that focuses on ideological and cultural differences and makes postsocialist and Islamic nations the potential targets of U.S. disciplining violence."--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 260 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction: The Racial Reorientations of U.S. Humanitarian Imperalism
- 1. Racial Time and the Other: Mapping the Postsocialist Transition
- 2. The Vietnam War and the Ethics of Failure: Heart of Darkness and the Emergence of Humanitarian Feeling at the Limits of Imperial Critique
- 3. Restoring National Faith: The Soviet-Afghan War in U.S. Media and Politics
- 4. Dracula as Ethnic Conflict: The Technologies of Humanitarian Militarism in Serbia and Kosovo
- 5. The Feminist Politics of Secular Redemption at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
- Epilogue. Beyond Spectacle: The Hidden Geographies of the War at Home
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- Isbn
- 9780816680931
- Label
- Humanitarian violence : the U.S. deployment of diversity
- Title
- Humanitarian violence
- Title remainder
- the U.S. deployment of diversity
- Statement of responsibility
- Neda Atanasoski
- Subject
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- Imperialism -- Social aspects
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
- United States -- Foreign relations
- United States -- Military policy | Social aspects
- War and society -- United States
- HISTORY / United States / General
- Humanitarianism -- United States
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- " When is a war not a war? When it is undertaken in the name of democracy, against the forces of racism, sexism, and religious and political persecution? This is the new world of warfare that Neda Atanasoski observes in Humanitarian Violence, different in name from the old imperialism but not so different in kind. In particular, she considers U.S. militarism--humanitarian militarism--during the Vietnam War, the Soviet-Afghan War, and the 1990s wars of secession in the former Yugoslavia. What this book brings to light--through novels, travel narratives, photojournalism, films, news media, and political rhetoric--is in fact a system of postsocialist imperialism based on humanitarian ethics. In the fiction of the United States as a multicultural haven, which morally underwrites the nation's equally brutal waging of war and making of peace, parts of the world are subject to the violence of U.S. power because they are portrayed to be homogeneous and racially, religiously, and sexually intolerant--and thus permanently in need of reform. The entangled notions of humanity and atrocity that follow from such mediations of war and crisis have refigured conceptions of racial and religious freedom in the post-Cold War era. The resulting cultural narratives, Atanasoski suggests, tend to racialize ideological differences--whereas previous forms of imperialism racialized bodies. In place of the European racial imperialism, U.S. settler colonialism, and pre-civil rights racial constructions that associated racial difference with a devaluing of nonwhite bodies, Humanitarian Violence identifies an emerging discourse of race that focuses on ideological and cultural differences and makes postsocialist and Islamic nations the potential targets of U.S. disciplining violence."--
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- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Atanasoski, Neda
- Dewey number
- 327.73
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E183.7
- LC item number
- .A83 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Difference incorporated
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Imperialism
- Humanitarianism
- War and society
- United States
- United States
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
- HISTORY / United States / General
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
- Label
- Humanitarian violence : the U.S. deployment of diversity, Neda Atanasoski
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Introduction: The Racial Reorientations of U.S. Humanitarian Imperalism -- 1. Racial Time and the Other: Mapping the Postsocialist Transition -- 2. The Vietnam War and the Ethics of Failure: Heart of Darkness and the Emergence of Humanitarian Feeling at the Limits of Imperial Critique -- 3. Restoring National Faith: The Soviet-Afghan War in U.S. Media and Politics -- 4. Dracula as Ethnic Conflict: The Technologies of Humanitarian Militarism in Serbia and Kosovo -- 5. The Feminist Politics of Secular Redemption at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia -- Epilogue. Beyond Spectacle: The Hidden Geographies of the War at Home -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
- Control code
- 840465556
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 260 pages
- Isbn
- 9780816680931
- Lccn
- 2013030773
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)840465556
- Label
- Humanitarian violence : the U.S. deployment of diversity, Neda Atanasoski
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Introduction: The Racial Reorientations of U.S. Humanitarian Imperalism -- 1. Racial Time and the Other: Mapping the Postsocialist Transition -- 2. The Vietnam War and the Ethics of Failure: Heart of Darkness and the Emergence of Humanitarian Feeling at the Limits of Imperial Critique -- 3. Restoring National Faith: The Soviet-Afghan War in U.S. Media and Politics -- 4. Dracula as Ethnic Conflict: The Technologies of Humanitarian Militarism in Serbia and Kosovo -- 5. The Feminist Politics of Secular Redemption at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia -- Epilogue. Beyond Spectacle: The Hidden Geographies of the War at Home -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
- Control code
- 840465556
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 260 pages
- Isbn
- 9780816680931
- Lccn
- 2013030773
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)840465556
Subject
- Imperialism -- Social aspects
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
- United States -- Foreign relations
- United States -- Military policy | Social aspects
- War and society -- United States
- HISTORY / United States / General
- Humanitarianism -- United States
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