Figuring violence : affective investments in perpetual war / / Rebecca A. Adelman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910813634103321
• Autore: Adelman Rebecca A.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Fordham University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• ISBN: 0-8232-8478-6; 0-8232-8170-1; 0-8232-8169-8
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 pages)
• Collana: Fordham scholarship online
• Disciplina: 355.0019
• Soggetti: Psychology, Military
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- On the Cover Image: “Vertigo at Guantanamo” -- introduction. Fabricated Connections, Deeply Felt -- chapter 1. Envisioning Civilian Childhood -- chapter 2. Affective Pedagogies for Military Children -- chapter 3. Recognizing Military Wives -- chapter 4. Economies of Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury -- chapter 5. Liberal Imaginaries of Guantánamo -- chapter 6. Feeling for Dogs in the War on Terror -- conclusion. A Radical and Unsentimental Attention -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In the United States, the early years of the war on terror were marked by the primacy of affects like fear and insecurity. These aligned neatly with the state’s drive toward intensive securitization and an aggressive foreign policy. But for the broader citizenry, such affects were tolerable at best and unbearable at worst; they were not sustainable. Figuring Violence catalogs the affects that define the latter stages of this war and the imaginative work that underpins them. These affects—apprehension, affection, admiration, gratitude, pity, and righteous anger—are far more subtle and durable than their predecessors, rendering them deeply compatible with the ambitions of a state embroiling itself in a perpetual and unwinnable war. Surveying the ; cultural landscape of this sprawling conflict, Figuring Violence reveals the varied mechanisms by which these affects have been militarized. Rebecca Adelman tracks their convergences around six types of beings: civilian children, military children, military spouses, veterans with PTSD and TBI, Guantánamo detainees, and military dogs. All of these groups have become preferred objects of sentiment in wartime public culture, but they also have in common their status as political subjects who are partially or fully unknowable. They become visible to outsiders through a range of mediated and imaginative practices that are ostensibly motivated by concern or compassion. However, these practices actually function to reduce these beings to abstracted figures, silencing their political subjectivities and obscuring their suffering. As a result, they are erased and rendered hypervisible at once. Figuring Violence demonstrates that this dynamic ultimately propagates the very militarism that begets their victimization.

Development derailed : Calgary and the CPR, 1962-64 / / Max Foran

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910811456003321
• Autore: Foran Maxwell
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Edmonton, [Alberta] : , : AU Press, , 2013; ©2013
• ISBN: 1-927356-09-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (258 pages) : illustrations, maps ; digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 385.0971
• Soggetti: Economic development - Political aspects - Alberta - Calgary - History - 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: List of tables, maps, and figures --Acknowledgements --Introduction --1 Setting the stage: the city's personalities and agendas, 1953 to July 1962 --2 Heady days of hope: two announcements, June 1962 to April 1963 --3 From arrangement to agreement: dodging the negotiation potholes, April 1963 to January 1964 --4 Temperature rising: the project under public scrutiny, February to June 1964 --Conclusion --; Epilogue --Appendix A: Heads of arrangement --Appendix B: Agreement of intent --Appendix C: Major participants --Appendix D: Calgary City Councils, 1962-64 --Notes --Bibliography --Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: In June of 1962, the Canadian Pacific Railway announced a proposal to redevelop part of its reserved land in the heart of downtown Calgary. In an effort to bolster its waning revenues and to redefine its urban presence, the CPR proposed a multimillion dollar development project that included retail, office, and convention facilities, along with a major transportation centre. With visions of enhanced tax revenues, increased land values, and new investment opportunities, Calgary’s political and business leaders greeted the proposal with excitement. Over the following year, the scope of the project expanded, growing to a scale never before seen in Canada. The plan took official form through an agreement between the City of Calgary and the railway company to develop a much larger area of land and to reroute or remove the railway tracks from the downtown area—a grand design for reshaping Calgary’s urban core. In 1964, amid bickering and a failed negotiating process, the project came to an abrupt end. What caused this promising partnership between the nation’s leading corporation and the burgeoning city of Calgary to collapse?What, in economic terms, was perceived to be a win-win situation for both parties fell prey to a conflict between corporate rigidity and an unorganized, ill-informed, and over-enthusiastic civic administration and city council. Drawing on the private records of Rod Sykes, the CPR’s onsite negotiator and later Calgary’s mayor, Foran unravels the fascinating story of how politics ultimately undermined promise.