Series: Advances in Critical Military Studies

Drawing on a wide variety of Chinese-language publications and in-depth interviews with high-school students, Mobilising China's One-Child Generation provides systematic evidence of the spread of martial logic and techniques into Chinese schools. The book explores how China has implemented Patriotic Education and National Defence Education programmes to foster love for the nation and the Party-state, mobilise the population to fight...

This book asks why US service members, veterans, and military families continue to affectively invest in militarism—both as a structure of global politics and in their everyday lives—when they have experienced first-hand its physical and emotional costs. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with military communities and ethnographic insights from a range of military sites, Pleasure and Depletion in Contemporary Militarism...

The Cultural Politics of Veterans’ Narratives investigates the role of veterans' stories in our collective cultural and political life. Drawing on contemporary narrative theory, it offers a conceptual framework for studying veterans' narratives, followed by a series of unique empirical chapters dealing with different genres of veteran storytelling, including trauma, transition, culture and identity, and the Afghanistan war memoir. The...