Binding: Paperback
Description: World War III has yet to happen and yet material evidence of this conflict is strewn everywhere: resting at the bottom of the ocean rusting in deserts and floating in near - Earth orbit. In Military Waste Joshua O. Reno offers a unique analysis of the costs of American war preparation through an examination of the lives and stories of American civilians confronted with what is left over and cast aside when a society is permanently ready for war. Using ethnographic and archival research Reno demonstrates how obsolete military junk in its various incarnations affects people and places far from the battlegrounds that are ordinarily associated with warfare. Using a broad swath of examples from excess planes ships and space debris that fall into civilian hands to the dispossessed and polluted island territories once occupied by military bases to the militarized masculinities of mass shooters Military Waste reveals the unexpected and open - ended relationships that non - combatants on the home front form with a nation permanently ready for war.
Title: Military Waste The Unexpected Consequences Of Permanent War Readiness
Author(s): Reno Joshua O.
Publisher: University Of California Press
Barcode: 9780520316027
Pages: 288 Pages, 2 B-W Photographs
Publication Date: 2/4/2020
Category: Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography