Feminist Praxis against U.S. Militarism
Nami Kim editor Wonhee Anne Joh editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:4th Dec '19
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Feminist Praxis against U.S. Militarism provides critical feminist and womanist analyses of U.S. militarism that challenge the ongoing U.S. neoliberal military-industrial complex and its multivalent violence that destroys people’s lives, especially women and other vulnerable populations. It highlights the intentional critique of U.S. militarism from feminist/womanist perspectives that seek to show the ways in which gender, race/ethnicity, sexuality, and violence intersect to threaten women’s lives, especially women of color’s lives, and the broader environment upon which women’s lives are dependent. Most of all, this volume challenges the readers to understand the U.S. as the warfare, counterterror, carceral state and its devastating effects on the everyday lives of women, especially women of color, locally, nationally, and globally. This volume also helps readers understand the racialized gendered impacts of U.S. militarism in conjunction with the ongoing global economies of dispossession and militarized violence across the borders of nation-states. Interrogating U.S. military interventions in “other” countries can show how the U.S. War on Terror directly affects U.S. “domestic” affairs and daily lives in the United States.
This book provides much for reflection on the complexification of notions of violence. It makes cogent points about the role of growing militarization and how narratives of safety, security, and violence against women are used to support the proliferation of the military industrial complex into many realms of religion and society. -- Neomi De Anda, University of Dayton
This provocative book by, leading cutting-edge transnational and cross-racial Christian feminist/womanist scholars, provides in-depth, critical, and comprehensive analyses of the current US Christian supremacy that fuels militarized white nationalism and US imperial projects. It helps readers connect many invisible dots between police violence, racialized surveillance, anti-black racism, the prison-industrial complex, Islamophobia, and settler colonialism through the lens of militarization and colonialism. A must-read for anyone concerned about the world and justice! -- Boyung Lee, Iliff School of Theology
Grounded in ongoing experiences of colonialist militarism, these engaging essays offer cogent, sophisticated analyses that unpack Christian collusion, both implicit and explicit, in the ongoing project of U.S. imperialism. And, more importantly, they offer liberative theo-political practices committed to resisting endless war and making peace. -- Rita Nakashima Brock, co-author of Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury After War, director of the Shay Moral Injury Center at Volunteers of America
ISBN: 9781498579216
Dimensions: 238mm x 158mm x 22mm
Weight: 467g
194 pages