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SUMMARY:Beyond Militarism conference
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DESCRIPTION:Department of Sociology\, University of Cambridge (with suppor
 t from the ESRC) \n\nKeynote speakers: Prof. Sunny Xiang (Yale)\, Prof. Ne
 el Ahuja (UMD)\n\nIn the 21st century\, when we are said to be living in u
 nprecedented times\, what does it take to make war? Visions conflict as to
  the future of war\, and what it means to be at war now. At the same time 
 as “great-power competition” is widely considered resurgent\, war has 
 become global in seemingly new ways with the integration of technologies a
 nd tactics that trouble conventional distinctions between war and peace. G
 rowing interconnectivity seems to herald a new complexity. However\, the p
 atterns and long continuities of state violence raise questions about what
  might be obscured through such claims of newness. What\, if anything\, is
  new in the new new wars? What does it take to make war seem foreign\, and
  who gets to be “outside” of war\, unimplicated in the violence of the
  state? What\, if anything\, remains untouched by this violence?\n\nThis t
 wo-day conference aims to prompt a fresh reckoning with the very foundatio
 ns necessary for making\, and making sense of\, war\, empire\, peace\, and
  security in the present. Critical scholars increasingly recognize the art
 ificiality and the coloniality of divides inherent in many accounts of sta
 te violences – for instance\, between the “domestic” and the “fore
 ign.” However\, challenges remain in untangling how state violences work
  through both the highly particular and local\, and through broader global
  systems of power.\n\nThis conference proceeds from a place of critical an
 d interdisciplinary reckoning with such divisions\, with an emphasis on ex
 ercises of power that structure the very socio-political. What could happe
 n if we set aside comfortable frames: if we “forgot militarization\,” 
 as Alison Howell has urged (2018)\, or if we looked beneath the presumptio
 ns built into concepts like militarism? Interrogation of police and milita
 ry violence have troubled distinctions made between the two (Schrader 2019
 \; Estes 2019\; Singh 2017\; Gouldhawke 2020\; Manso 2016\; Seigel 2017) a
 nd raised questions fundamental to any analysis of war. How and why is sta
 te violence organized\, how is it justified\, and why does it take the for
 ms it does? Are the answers to these questions changing in the 21st centur
 y? What might be made visible with a re-cognition and centering of the fun
 damentals of war and the “military” and the range of violences of the 
 present: of empire\, settler colonialism\, police\, race\, gender\, the 
 “human”?\n\nAnd if state violences "[tie] our fates together" (Paik 20
 17\, 18)\, how do people take hold of such connections to resist\, create\
 , and envision another world? How might abolitionism as a "praxis of creat
 ivity" (Rodríguez 2019\, 1612) provide ways into thinking and acting othe
 rwise at a time when war - in whatever forms it may take - is so deeply in
 tegrated into the everyday?\nSpeakers:\n Various Speakers
LOCATION:Venue to be announced
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/8211cfcd-c6ea-4ff8-8de5-b23b33b64986/
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