War, Citizenship, Territory

The apparent ubiquity of war demands that we rethink long-held assumptions. War is not only pervasive, it is changing. New geographies of armed conflict and the shifting boundaries between military and civilian life mean that attention must turn to the nexus of war, citizenship and territory. How does urban warfare reshape more traditional conceptions of national territoriality and violence? If the line between war and peace has become more difficult to discern, how are politics reconstituted in the wake of combat? What kinds of recalibrations are underway between the warring body politic and the racialization and gendering of bodies? How do citizens confront the global legal and economic architectures of empire? What are the implications for the future of citizenship and geo/political analysis? This collection features eighteen chapters that take up these pressing questions, and others, with empirical examples from different regions of the world. Book jacket.