Security Disarmed: Critical Perspectives on Gender, Race, and Militarization

From the history of state terrorism in Latin America, to state- and group-perpetrated plunder and genocide in Africa, to war and armed conflicts in the Middle East, militarization--the heightened role of organized aggression in society--continues to painfully shape the lives of millions of people around the world.

In Security Disarmed, scholars, policy planners, and activists come together to think critically about the human cost of violence and viable alternatives to armed conflict. Arranged in four parts--alternative paradigms of security, cross-national militarization, militarism in the United States, and pedagogical and cultural concerns--the book critically challenges militarization and voices an alternative encompassing vision of human security by analyzing the relationships among gender, race, and militarization. This collection of essays evaluates and resists the worldwide crisis of militarizationùincluding but going beyond American military engagements in the twenty-first century.

Barbara Sutton is an assistant professor of women's studies at the University at Albany, SUNY.

Sandra Morgen is the associate dean of the Graduate School and professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon.

Julie Novkov is an associate professor of political science and women's studies at the University at Albany, SUNY.