Free Download Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BV3FLK1C | 2023 | 12 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 352 MB
Author: Katharine M. Millar
Narrator: Kathryn Markey
In the past, it was assumed that men, as good citizens, would serve in the armed forces in wartime. In the present, however, liberal democratic states increasingly rely on small all-volunteer militaries deployed in distant wars of choice. While few people now serve in the armed forces, our cultural myths and narratives of warfare continue to reproduce a strong connection between military service, citizenship, and normative masculinity. In Support the Troops, Katharine M. Millar provides an empirical overview of "support the troops" discourses in the US and UK during the early years of the global war on terror (2001-2010). As Millar argues, seemingly stable understandings of the relationship between military service, citizenship, and gender norms are being unsettled by changes in warfare.