Thesis
Support is the new service: gendered political obligation, the military, and collective subject formation in international relations
- Subtitle:
- An examination of support the troops discourse and civil-military relations in the US and UK from 2001-2010
- Abstract:
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Military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq highlighted a key characteristic of contemporary Western civil- military relations. Today, a small group of volunteers fights a distant conflict while popular familiarity with military service and war declines. There is a disconnect between this way of war and enduring cultural understandings of the appropriate normative relationship between gender (particularly masculinity), military service, and citizenship. This study examines "support the tro...
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Funding
+ Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada
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Funding agency for:
Katharine M Millar
Bibliographic Details
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Language:
- English
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- Copyright date:
- 2016
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