LEADER 04298nam 2200685 450 001 9910793005103321 005 20220526095107.0 010 $a0-8232-8478-6 010 $a0-8232-8170-1 010 $a0-8232-8169-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823281701 035 $a(CKB)4100000007101043 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5568664 035 $a(OCoLC)1059450758 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse68813 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002046501 035 $a(DE-B1597)554922 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823281701 035 $a(OCoLC)1061119327 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5568664 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007101043 100 $a20220526d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFiguring violence $eaffective investments in perpetual war /$fRebecca A. Adelman 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York :$cFordham University Press,$d[2019] 210 4$d©2019 215 $a1 online resource (353 pages) 225 1 $aFordham scholarship online 300 $aThis edition previously issued in print: 2018. 311 0 $a0-8232-8167-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tOn the Cover Image: ?Vertigo at Guantanamo? --$tintroduction. Fabricated Connections, Deeply Felt --$tchapter 1. Envisioning Civilian Childhood --$tchapter 2. Affective Pedagogies for Military Children --$tchapter 3. Recognizing Military Wives --$tchapter 4. Economies of Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury --$tchapter 5. Liberal Imaginaries of Guantánamo --$tchapter 6. Feeling for Dogs in the War on Terror --$tconclusion. A Radical and Unsentimental Attention --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aIn the United States, the early years of the war on terror were marked by the primacy of affects like fear and insecurity. These aligned neatly with the state?s drive toward intensive securitization and an aggressive foreign policy. But for the broader citizenry, such affects were tolerable at best and unbearable at worst; they were not sustainable. Figuring Violence catalogs the affects that define the latter stages of this war and the imaginative work that underpins them. These affects?apprehension, affection, admiration, gratitude, pity, and righteous anger?are far more subtle and durable than their predecessors, rendering them deeply compatible with the ambitions of a state embroiling itself in a perpetual and unwinnable war. Surveying the cultural landscape of this sprawling conflict, Figuring Violence reveals the varied mechanisms by which these affects have been militarized. Rebecca Adelman tracks their convergences around six types of beings: civilian children, military children, military spouses, veterans with PTSD and TBI, Guantánamo detainees, and military dogs. All of these groups have become preferred objects of sentiment in wartime public culture, but they also have in common their status as political subjects who are partially or fully unknowable. They become visible to outsiders through a range of mediated and imaginative practices that are ostensibly motivated by concern or compassion. However, these practices actually function to reduce these beings to abstracted figures, silencing their political subjectivities and obscuring their suffering. As a result, they are erased and rendered hypervisible at once. Figuring Violence demonstrates that this dynamic ultimately propagates the very militarism that begets their victimization. 410 0$aFordham scholarship online. 606 $aPsychology, Military 610 $aAmerican militarism. 610 $aPTSD and TBI. 610 $aWar on Terror. 610 $aaffect. 610 $adetainees. 610 $aimagination. 610 $amediation. 610 $amilitary children. 610 $amilitary spouses. 610 $amilitary working dogs. 615 0$aPsychology, Military. 676 $a355.0019 700 $aAdelman$b Rebecca A.$01560085 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793005103321 996 $aFiguring violence$93866509 997 $aUNINA