Reconstructing conflict : integrating war and post-war geographies
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Reconstructing conflict : integrating war and post-war geographies
(Critical geopolitics)
Ashgate, c2011
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  Hiroshima
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  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Reconstruction - the rebuilding of state, economy, culture and society in the wake of war - is a powerful idea, and a profoundly transformative one. From the refashioning of new landscapes in bombed-out cities and towns to the reframing of national identities to accommodate changed historical narratives, the term has become synonymous with notions of "post-conflict" society; it draws much of its rhetorical power from the neat demarcation, both spatially and temporally, between war and peace. The reality is far more complex. In this volume, reconstruction is identified as a process of conflict and of militarized power, not something that clearly demarcates a post-war period of peace. Kirsch and Flint bring together an internationally diverse range of studies by leading scholars to examine how periods of war and other forms of political violence have been justified as processes of necessary and valid reconstruction as well as the role of war in catalyzing the construction of new political institutions and destroying old regimes. Challenging the false dichotomy between war and peace, this book explores instead the ways that war and peace are mutually constituted in the creation of historically specific geographies and geographical knowledges.
Table of Contents
- I: Introduction
- 1: Introduction: Reconstruction and the Worlds that War Makes
- II: Geographies of War and Reconstruction
- 2: Intertwined Spaces of Peace and War: The Perpetual Dynamism of Geopolitical Landscapes
- 3: Genocide as Reconstruction: The Political Geography of Democratic Kampuchea
- 4: Salient versus Silent Disasters in Post-conflict Aceh, Indonesia
- 5: Not Peace, Not War: The Myriad Spaces of Sovereignty, Peace and Conflict in Myanmar/Burma 1
- 6: Reconstructing the Colonial Present in British Soldiers' Accounts of the Afghanistan Conflict
- 7: Militarising Spaces: A Geographical Exploration of Cyprus
- 8: Paying the Price for Freedom: From Destruction toward Reconstruction in Northern France, 1940-1960
- III: Hegemony and Conflict: Rethinking Peace
- 9: Breaking Iraq: Reconstruction as War
- 10: Object Lessons: War and American Democracy in the Philippines
- 11: Mapping Intelligence: American Geographers and the Office of Strategic Services and GHQ/SCAP (Tokyo)
- 12: The US Militarization of a 'Host' Civilian Society: The Case of Postwar Okinawa, Japan
- 13: War as Emergency? Constructing and Deconstructing the California Agricultural Landscape
- 14: The Hidden War: The "Risk" to Female Soldiers in the US Military
- 15: Conclusion
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