Late Modern War and the Geos
In: International Political Sociology ; volume 18, issue 2 ; ISSN 1749-5679 1749-5687, 2024
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This article works toward an ontology of war centered on the life of the planet, or geos. Noting a disciplinary tendency to focus on the makers of war, we ask: What if our analyses of war begin not with the technologies of killing but with the life that is targeted? Our response proceeds in four sections. We first identify a “militarized ontology” of war that forms through the ways that militaries figure violence as spatially and temporally “precise” and thus distinct from longer-term environmental effects. We then argue that these ontological bounds persist also in critical scholarship on war. Writing against such ontological contingencies, we learn from feminist IR to set out a theoretical path for knowing war on different terms, from the perspective of the geos. From here, our main contribution forms: Attending to war ecologies and non/human health, war appears in a form that critically contrasts with a large part of current work in IR; it is no longer a primarily accelerated, aerial, or remote activity but rather an enduring, terranean, and proximate intervention in the environment and the life it sustains. We close with explication of the significance of geos-centered study of war in IR and beyond.
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Late Modern War and the Geos
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Griffiths, Mark ; Redwood, Henry ; UKRI |
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Zeitschrift: | International Political Sociology ; volume 18, issue 2 ; ISSN 1749-5679 1749-5687, 2024 |
Veröffentlichung: | Oxford University Press (OUP), 2024 |
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DOI: | 10.1093/ips/olae011 |
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