...Nancy Scheper-Hughes This essay explores the militarization of everyday life in the United States today, following decades of unresolved cycles of wars fought at home (e.g., the war on drugs) and abroad. A “continuum of violence” is established, through which the tactics of war and war crimes...

... in the Militarized Borderlands ​Since adopting the 1994 Border Patrol Strategic Plan, a strategy called “Prevention through Deterrence” (PTD) has governed the enforcement of the US-Mexico border. Relying on heavy physical enforcement like walls, surveillance, and concentrating personnel in urban crossing...

... and its militarization. On this count, I modify Timothy Mitchell's thesis in Carbon Democracy that the militarization of the Middle East was a largely American solution to lost profits following the nationalization of oil by producing countries (insofar as lost oil profits were recuperated through weapons...

... forces. With the active involvement of corporate partners, administrations are striving to commercialize, vocationalize, and militarize both curriculum and student culture itself. Furthermore, the role of higher education in sharply intensified exploitation means that we have to ask the same question...

... of intensified deportations, border militarization, and congressional posturing on immigration reform; the undocumented migrant is no longer the anonymous dishwasher or nanny in hiding but rather appears as the highly publicized face of the “illegal alien.” On the other hand, this is a time of increased...

...Fred Moten; Stefano Harney This is an offering to the ones in violent flight from the militarized enclosure of politics out into the social life that surrounds it, which is where we are and what we were all along. © 2011 Duke University Press 2011...

... the environment and culture of the island, and as such have become objects of local community debate and protest. Michael Lujan Bevacqua's article chronicles recent activism against US militarization in Guam and provides a context as to why this 212-square-mile colony in the Western Pacific holds so much...

..., and beyond them, reflecting on experiences in the student movement, we consider the complex of militarized violence, on one hand, and, on the other, masculinist, physicalized resistance informed by particular readings, interpretations, and embodiments of Afropessimist positions on black people that seem...

...-institutional offensive force. On the other hand, there is also a global dynamic limited to liberal democracies of institutional reform that cowers in the face of radical demands, such as the end of national policing above all. Finally, the constant colonization of Brazilian politics by society's militarized...

...” in advocating for the creation of “security zones” and militarized interventions. This approach, rooted in a so‐called caring racism, argues for the protection of the welfare state by excluding and expelling racialized others. Understanding capitalism as requiring inequality, sustained by racism, Sweden's...

... that the mental reaction of the vast majority of thoughtful men and women in this country to the European conflagration has been a revulsion against the doctrines and practices of militarism. Although we are a bit puzzled concerning the causes which brought the war to pass, we are agreed in de­ nouncing...

..., a surge of resource nationalism, revolution, and a commitment in Washing- ton, DC, to militarizing access to and managing the “free flow” of oil helped produce an arc of almost constant war. Much of the region’s contemporary conflict is rooted in the rise of the supertanker and the post-pipeline flow...

... them as effectively as possible, to win rather than to lose and to win at the lowest cost in human suffering (p. 118). To do this means militarism as philosophy as well as instrument, and eventually a gigantic imperalism as the natural expres­ sion and reward of militarism. In a time of total warfare...

... and the role it had played in the previous decades, when Germany had launched five aggressive wars, he would have searched in vain. Nevertheless, there were then and are still organizations in Ger­ many intended to combat militarism. Their numerical weakness, the violence with which they were suppressed...

... to place ourselves in a position to ward off wars as long as possible and to prepare ourselves to fight them as effectively as possible, to win rather than to lose and to win at the lowest cost in human suffering (p. 118). To do this means militarism as philosophy as well as instrument, and eventually...

... is a means of quickly authorizing vio- lence and militarism: the innovation of the new border security strategy was originally posed as a reactive measure in a historic moment of temporarily increased migration caused by the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Its later enhancement...

..., ecological destruction, and militarized exploi- tation. Its work has included critical engagements with the Asia-Pacific Eco- nomic Cooperation (APEC), a Pacific Rim forum that supports free trade and other kinds of economic integration, and the Pacific Pivot, an Obama administration strategy...

... Conspiracy: Nationalism and Militarism [1783 Socially, the na­ tional military establishment proposed by nationalists implied diver­ sity, division of labor, [and] hierarchy . . . [in] a stable nation which could protect its interests in the Atlantic world of trade and empire, rather than a more...

... politics of US military bases. First, it underscores that the ideology of militarized security continues to undermine the security of daily lives of local men and women in a host society. The local residents are forced to sacrifice their houses, farmlands, and communities for the smooth working...

... the values and desires of its organizers and participants by enabling a space of alterity to imagine, represent, and participate in the university community. Correspondingly, the physical and discursive modes of repression that are gradually waged against the encampments by a militarized coalition...