Gender and Sexual Politics of Pacific Island Militarisation: A Call for Critical Militarisation Studies

Militarisation is something of a proverbial elephant in the room when considering the once and current course of empire. When Pacific militarisation has been examined, the focus often turns to the strategic military history of World War II or draws on an unreconstructed area studies, uncritically co...

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Published in:Intersections (Perth, W.A.) W.A.), 2015-03 (37)
Main Authors: Bascara, Victor, Camacho, Keith L, DeLoughrey, Elizabeth
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Colonialism
Cultural Pluralism
Discourse
Empires
Ethnicity
Politics
Sex
Sexuality
World War II
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Summary:Militarisation is something of a proverbial elephant in the room when considering the once and current course of empire. When Pacific militarisation has been examined, the focus often turns to the strategic military history of World War II or draws on an unreconstructed area studies, uncritically complicit with development and its methods of being realised. The Pacific Islands are therefore at both the centre and the margins of any reckoning with the colonial and neocolonial history of state violence in the region. The authors in this volume call for a critical militarisation studies (CMS); one that weaves the complex histories of state violence in the region in relation to issues of ethnicity, indigeneity, gender and sexuality. CMS also calls for scrutiny of the diversity of discourses expressed by communities complicit in regimes of militarisation as well as those articulating cultural and political modes of demilitarisation and resistance. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:1440-9151
1440-9151