Abstract In the anthropology of Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA), there is an effort underway to decolonize field. This process taking shape in academic writing, institutions, field practices, among broader publics. It must arise from priorities region; it also builds on wider scholarship race, indigeneity, militarism. requires expansion bounds politics, consideration who can participate...

Palestinian activists have long maintained that the hegemonic discourse used to describe their predicament is unhelpful for understanding nature of so-called “conflict” in country. They maintain a discursive hegemony suppresses voices and denies lived experience. A high-profile case settler organization’s attempt evict families from homes Jerusalem brought visibility counter-hegemonic challenge...

The characteristic mobility of highland populations in Southeast Asia relied to a large extent on their particular adaption an ecological environment: swidden cultivation tubers mountain slopes. This ecology corresponded cosmologies which potency was limitless, or at least had no fixed and delimited precinct (as did the rice paddies Buddhist realms valleys). Military state building, modern tran...

The British military institution, like other armed organizations worldwide, relies heavily on the unpaid domestic labour performed by civilian women married to its servicemen. This does not often feature in public understandings of how functions, and feminists have argued that invisibility contributes naturalization power. silence surrounding wives’ labour, however, is complete, this article ex...

This article discusses Japan’s struggle to push its military capabilities become more active in security issues since the reelection of Shinzo Abe 2012. During this time, Japanese defense policy faced great challenges due restriction constitution pacifism (Article 9) and fact that opposed idea militarism or ‘remilitarization’ initiated by political leaders, mainly Abe. However, Chinese presence...

Abstract Angelina Jolie's high-profile visit to NATO in 2018 signals a move brand the alliance's strategic narrative within language of celebrity through engagement with popular culture. The partnership represents significant change approach global security. It also builds on shift NATO's self-narrative advocacy gender justice related Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. Rather than fading i...

Abstract The notion of “leaky” female bodies has long rationalized the exclusion women from military service. Yet, in an attempt to bolster enlistments by appealing women, Swedish Armed Forces (SAF) embarked on a marketing strategy that aims break with gender stereotypes order fill its ranks. Most notably, 2018 recruitment campaign, SAF billboard posed question “Can I have my period field?” Thi...

This Special Section broadens and qualifies the terms through which relationship between home militarization has been understood. We do this by joining a vibrant growing field of transdisciplinary scholars who address everyday life attending to domesticity practices domestication. grapple with how naturalizes becomes catalyst for militarism: How ordinary domestic objects, technologies, spaces, ...