On the Cover Image: "Vertigo at Guantanamo" ixIntroduction: Fabricated Connections, Deeply Felt 11. Envisioning Civilian Childhood 272. Affective Pedagogies for Military Children 523. Recognizing Military Wives 884. Economies of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury 1375. Liberal Imaginaries of Guantanamo 1786. Feeling for Dogs in the War on Terror 212Conclusion: A Radical and Unsentimental Attention 245Acknowledgments 251Notes 257Index 329
Rebecca A. Adelman is Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is the author of Beyond the Checkpoint: Visual Practices in America's Global War on Terror.
This timely, sprightly, and elegantly written monograph explores
how the imagination and affect converge and circulate to generate a
militarized affective economy. Though her strategic use of affect
theory, Adelman provides insights into emotional and interpersonal
phenomena that political theorists tend to ignore. In so doing,
Adelman produces a theoretical account of how affects have shaped
and sustained the U.S. public's responses to persons in the
military and she reflects on the ethical and political intricacies
of these responses. Adelman attends in particular to the imaginings
of citizens, the nation, and the state so as to develop a more
precise account of the affective and imaginative mechanisms by
which militarization results from this interaction. -- Don Pease,
Dartmouth College
Figuring Violence is a challenging, highly original
contribution to critical research on affect and the visual culture
of militarization. Adelman vividly analyzes the people and nonhuman
animals around whom militarized affect gets assembled in
contemporary U.S. culture, scaling the fine granularities of
militarized feeling and the larger imaginaries of wartime
mediation, and their devastating consequences. This book calls us
in and challenges us to take on the struggle against militarized
violence and its powerful structures of feeling. It is a critical
read for anyone willing to `stay with the trouble' of doing the
emotional and political work that de-militarization requires of us.
-- Carrie Rentschler, McGill University
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