War Beyond the Battlefield - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415523680 ISBN 13: 9780415523684

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

In an effort to make sense of war beyond the battlefield in studying the wars that were captured under the rubric of the "War on Terror", this special issue book seeks to explore the complex spatial relationships between war and the spaces that one is not used to thinking of as the battlefield. It focuses on the conflicts that still animate the spaces and places where violence has been launched and that the war has not left untouched. In focusing on war beyond the battlefield, it is not that the battlefield as the place where war is waged has gone in smoke or has borne out of importance, it is rather the case that the battlefield has been dis-placed, re-designed, re-shaped and rethought through new spatializing practices of warfare. These new spaces of war – new in the sense that they are not traditionally thought of as spaces where war takes place or is brought to – are television screens, cellular phones and bandwidth, George W. Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, videogames, popular culture sites, news media, blogs, and so on. These spaces of war beyond the battlefield are crucial to understanding what goes on the battlefield, in Iraq, Afghanistan, or in other fronts of the War on Terror (such as the homeland) – to understand how terror has globally been waged beyond the battlefield.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Geopolitics.

About this title

About the Author:

David Grondin is assistant professor at the School of Political Studies of the University of Ottawa, Canada. His current research deals with the US preparation of and for the future of war and draws on the crucial links between sci-fi and cinema in imagining the transformation of war.

Review:

"The work represents some serious scholarship. The various selections provide both information and insight." - Sheldon G. Levy, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan in e-International Relations, September 2012

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0415523680
• ISBN 13: 9780415523684
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 226
• Editor: Grondin David