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Finance Fictions : Affective Investments in Perpetual War.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2019Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (353 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823281701
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Finance FictionsDDC classification:
  • 355.0019
LOC classification:
  • U22.3 .A345 2019
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- FIGURING VIOLENCE -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- On the Cover Image: "Vertigo at Guantanamo" -- Introduction: Fabricated Connections, Deeply Felt -- 1. Envisioning Civilian Childhood -- 2. Affective Pedagogies for Military Children -- 3. Recognizing Military Wives -- 4. Economies of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury -- 5. Liberal Imaginaries of Guantánamo -- 6. Feeling for Dogs in the War on Terror -- Conclusion: A Radical and Unsentimental Attention -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: Figuring Violence explores the roles of imagination and affects like apprehension, affection, admiration, gratitude, pity, and anger in sustaining contemporary American militarism. The book charts the politics of wartime sentimental investment in civilian children, military children, military spouses, veterans with PTSD and TBI, Guantánamo Bay detainees, and military dogs.
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Cover -- FIGURING VIOLENCE -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- On the Cover Image: "Vertigo at Guantanamo" -- Introduction: Fabricated Connections, Deeply Felt -- 1. Envisioning Civilian Childhood -- 2. Affective Pedagogies for Military Children -- 3. Recognizing Military Wives -- 4. Economies of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury -- 5. Liberal Imaginaries of Guantánamo -- 6. Feeling for Dogs in the War on Terror -- Conclusion: A Radical and Unsentimental Attention -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

Figuring Violence explores the roles of imagination and affects like apprehension, affection, admiration, gratitude, pity, and anger in sustaining contemporary American militarism. The book charts the politics of wartime sentimental investment in civilian children, military children, military spouses, veterans with PTSD and TBI, Guantánamo Bay detainees, and military dogs.

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