Martialling Peace : : How the Peacekeeper Myth Legitimises Warfare / / Nicole Wegner.
The peacekeeper—impartial, disciplined, helpful and restrained in their lethal capacity—is a powerful trope. This book examines the mythology of international peacekeeping and focuses on Canada as a case study of a "peacekeeper par excellence" (Jockel, 1994) and the ways the peacekeeping m...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Advances in Critical Military Studies : ACMS
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (160 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Dedication and Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Martialling Peace: How the Peacekeeping Myth Legitimises Warfare
- 1. Putting the ‘Peace’ in Peacekeeping: Martial Peace, Martial Politics and the Objects of Our Peacekeeping Desires
- 2. Myths, Peacekeeping and the Peacekeeping Myth
- 3. Cultural Nostalgia and the Political Construction of the Canadian Peacekeeping Myth
- 4. The Peacekeeping Myth and the War in Afghanistan
- 5. Creating Martial Peace: Martial Politics and Militarised ‘Peace’ Enforcement in Canada
- Conclusion: Myths, Militarism and Martial(ed) Peace
- References
- Index