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Necropolitical branding: building communities of pre-emptive violence 死气沉沉的政治品牌：建立先发制人的暴力社区

Critical Military Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-12 DOI: 10.1080/23337486.2022.2156838

T. Beaumont

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Total defense as a happy object: gendering mobilization of civil defense in Sweden 作为幸福对象的全面防御:瑞典民防的性别化动员

Critical Military Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-12 DOI: 10.1080/23337486.2022.2156837

Mathias Ericson, Maja Svenbro, Misse Wester

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Living war, writing war, teaching war 生活战争、写作战争、教学战争

Critical Military Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-07 DOI: 10.1080/23337486.2022.2144161

B. Schrader

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Thwarted selves: neoliberal boredom among Aotearoa New Zealand peacekeepers 自我觉醒：新西兰维和人员中的新自由主义无聊

Critical Military Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-05 DOI: 10.1080/23337486.2022.2143676

Nina Harding

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Proud to ‘fly a desk’ and wear a medal? Interrogations of military pride through the eyes of the RAF veteran 以“飞办公桌”和佩戴奖牌为荣?通过这位英国皇家空军老兵的眼睛，对军人自豪感的拷问

Critical Military Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-04 DOI: 10.1080/23337486.2022.2140095

Paul Higate

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Argentinian peacekeepers and moral becoming in Cyprus 阿根廷维和部队和塞浦路斯的道德转变

Critical Military Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-02 DOI: 10.1080/23337486.2022.2141088

Eva van Roekel

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Dance as a register of war: following unruly bodies, affects, and sounds in conflict 作为战争记录的舞蹈:在冲突中追随不守规矩的身体、情感和声音

Critical Military Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-17 DOI: 10.1080/23337486.2022.2134139

Maria-Adriana Deiana

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Critical veteran researchers’ unique adequacy: accounting for friendly-fire and fratricide 关键的资深研究人员独特的充分性:解释友军射击和自相残杀

Critical Military Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-15 DOI: 10.1080/23337486.2022.2131974

K. Jenkings

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‘Can I Be Gay in the Army?’: British Army recruitment advertising to LGBTQ youth in 2017–18 and belonging in the queer military home “在军队里我能成为同性恋吗?”: 2017-18年英国陆军招募LGBTQ青年的广告，属于酷儿军事之家

Critical Military Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-17 DOI: 10.1080/23337486.2022.2113960

C. Baker

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‘Deterrence can be boring’: boredom, gender, and absence in Britain’s Cold War military “威慑可能很无聊”：无聊、性别和英国冷战军队的缺席

Critical Military Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-12 DOI: 10.1080/23337486.2022.2110697

Grace Huxford

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