Collection: War

Books with scholarship on war, military, security studies, and more.

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Torture in the National Security Imagination Torture in the National Security Imagination Stephanie Athey 2023 Fall
Reassessing the role of torture in the context of police violence, mass incarceration, and racial capitalism
The New American War Film The New American War Film Robert Burgoyne 2023 Fall
A look at how post-9/11 cinema captures the new face of war in the twenty-first century
Terrorism on Trial: Political Violence and Abolitionist Futures Terrorism on Trial Political Violence and Abolitionist Futures Nicole Nguyen 2023 Fall
A landmark sociological examination of terrorism prosecution in United States courts
The Quiet Violence of Empire: How USAID Waged Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan The Quiet Violence of Empire How USAID Waged Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan Wesley Attewell 2023 Spring
How the U.S. empire-state transformed post-1945 Afghanistan into a key site for reimagining development
The Prison House of the Circuit: Politics of Control from Analog to Digital The Prison House of the Circuit Politics of Control from Analog to Digital Jeremy Packer, Paula Nuñez de Villavicencio, Alexander Monea, Kathleen Oswald, Kate Maddalena and Joshua Reeves 2022 Fall
Has society ceded its self-governance to technogovernance?
On Posthuman War: Computation and Military Violence On Posthuman War Computation and Military Violence Mike Hill 2022 Spring
Tracing war’s expansion beyond the battlefield to the concept of the human being itself
Radical Secrecy: The Ends of Transparency in Datafied America Radical Secrecy The Ends of Transparency in Datafied America Clare Birchall 2021 Spring
Reimagining transparency and secrecy in the era of digital data
Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security after 9/11 Training for Catastrophe Fictions of National Security after 9/11 Lindsay Thomas 2021 Spring
A timely, politically savvy examination of how impossible disasters shape the very real possibilities of our world
Remote Warfare: New Cultures of Violence Remote Warfare New Cultures of Violence Rebecca A. Adelman and David Kieran, Editors 2020 Fall
Considers how people have confronted, challenged, and resisted remote warfare
Digitize and Punish: Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age Digitize and Punish Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age Brian Jefferson 2020 Spring
Tracing the rise of digital computing in policing and punishment and its harmful impact on criminalized communities of color
Suspect Communities: Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror Suspect Communities Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror Nicole Nguyen 2019 Fall
The first major qualitative study of “countering violent extremism” in key U.S. cities
Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America Prison Land Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America Brett Story 2019 Spring
From broken-window policing in Detroit to prison-building in Appalachia, exploring the expansion of the carceral state and its oppressive social relations into everyday life
Cyberwar and Revolution: Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism Cyberwar and Revolution Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism Nick Dyer-Witheford and Svitlana Matviyenko 2019 Spring
Uncovering the class conflicts, geopolitical dynamics, and aggressive capitalism propelling the militarization of the internet
The Eye of War: Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone The Eye of War Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone Antoine Bousquet 2018 Fall
How perceptual technologies have shaped the history of war from the Renaissance to the present
Deconstruction Machines: Writing in the Age of Cyberwar Deconstruction Machines Writing in the Age of Cyberwar Justin Joque 2018 Spring
A bold new theory of cyberwar argues that militarized hacking is best understood as a form of deconstruction
Brown Threat: Identification in the Security State Brown Threat Identification in the Security State Kumarini Silva 2016 Fall
Revealing a post-9/11 America in which a dubious identity concept has become a dragnet for the “deviant”
The War Came Home with Him: A Daughter’s Memoir The War Came Home with Him A Daughter’s Memoir Catherine Madison 2016 Fall
A poignant look at the suppressed grief and thwarted love that forever alter a family when a soldier brings his war home
A Curriculum of Fear: Homeland Security in U.S. Public Schools A Curriculum of Fear Homeland Security in U.S. Public Schools Nicole Nguyen 2016 Fall
Winner: American Association of Geographers Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography
Predator Empire: Drone Warfare and Full Spectrum Dominance Predator Empire Drone Warfare and Full Spectrum Dominance Ian G. R. Shaw 2016 Fall
How a brave new world of robotic surveillance is reshaping the state, society, and our very humanity
Holidays in the Danger Zone: Entanglements of War and Tourism Holidays in the Danger Zone Entanglements of War and Tourism Debbie Lisle 2016 Fall
A timely and uniquely historical look at how war turns soldiers, and all of us, into tourists
Militarizing the Environment: Climate Change and the Security State Militarizing the Environment Climate Change and the Security State Robert P. Marzec 2016 Spring
How ideas of coexisting with the planet are being replaced by a militarized vision of adaptation
World Projects: Global Information before World War I World Projects Global Information before World War I Markus Krajewski 2014 Fall
Before Google and globalization, big-thinking Germans brought the world closer together
Distant Wars Visible: The Ambivalence of Witnessing Distant Wars Visible The Ambivalence of Witnessing Wendy Kozol 2014 Fall
Mapping the fraught space between empathy and spectacle in the witnessing of military conflict
Fighting for Peace: Veterans and Military Families in the Anti–Iraq War Movement Fighting for Peace Veterans and Military Families in the Anti–Iraq War Movement Lisa Leitz 2014 Spring
The story of the “military peace movement” that opposed the Iraq and Afghanistan wars
Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity Humanitarian Violence The U.S. Deployment of Diversity Neda Atanasoski 2013 Fall
Exploring the transition from the old imperialism based on race to the new imperialism based on diversity
The Thought of Death and the Memory of War The Thought of Death and the Memory of War Marc Crépon 2013 Fall
The first English translation of one of the foremost voices of contemporary moral and political philosophy
Life, War, Earth: Deleuze and the Sciences Life, War, Earth Deleuze and the Sciences John Protevi 2013 Spring
Applies Deleuzian theory to an impressive array of physical phenomena, scientific issues, and political events
Hot Spotter’s Report: Military Fables of Toxic Waste Hot Spotter’s Report Military Fables of Toxic Waste Shiloh R. Krupar 2013 Spring
How biopolitical militarism in the U.S. obscures the domestic remains of war
War, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work War, Genocide, and Justice Cambodian American Memory Work Cathy J. Schlund-Vials 2012 Fall
Examining Cambodian American cultural production as memory work
Speculative Security: The Politics of Pursuing Terrorist Monies Speculative Security The Politics of Pursuing Terrorist Monies Marieke de Goede 2012 Spring
Does following the money create security or undermine it?
Gameplay Mode: War, Simulation, and Technoculture Gameplay Mode War, Simulation, and Technoculture Patrick Crogan 2011 Fall
Understanding the military logics that created and continue to inform computer games
Fallout Shelter: Designing for Civil Defense in the Cold War Fallout Shelter Designing for Civil Defense in the Cold War David Monteyne 2011 Spring
Tracing the partnership between architects and American civil defense officials during the Cold War
Political Spaces and Global War Political Spaces and Global War Carlo Galli Adam Sitze, Editor 2010 Fall
A disquieting genealogy of globalization by a major contemporary thinker
The Contours of America’s Cold War The Contours of America’s Cold War Matthew Farish 2010 Fall
How new ideas of space contributed to a broad mobilization of American power
The Divided World: Human Rights and Its Violence The Divided World Human Rights and Its Violence Randall Williams 2010 Spring
Examines why some people are deemed worthy of human rights and others are not
The World Says No to War: Demonstrations against the War on Iraq The World Says No to War Demonstrations against the War on Iraq Stefaan Walgrave and Dieter Rucht, Editors 2010 Spring
Examining the 2003 global protest against the war on Iraq
Ends of Empire: Asian American Critique and the Cold War Ends of Empire Asian American Critique and the Cold War Jodi Kim 2010 Spring
A bold examination of how the U.S. Cold War in Asia impacted the formation of Asian America
Militarized Currents: Toward a Decolonized Future in Asia and the Pacific Militarized Currents Toward a Decolonized Future in Asia and the Pacific Setsu Shigematsu and Keith L. Camacho, Editors 2010 Spring
Exposing the consequences of U.S. and Japanese militarization
Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games Games of Empire Global Capitalism and Video Games Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter 2009 Fall
Analyzes video games and their links with capitalism, militarism, and social control
Terror and Territory: The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty Terror and Territory The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty Stuart Elden 2009 Fall
A timely analysis of the contemporary state of territory
Signs of Danger: Waste, Trauma, and Nuclear Threat Signs of Danger Waste, Trauma, and Nuclear Threat Peter C. van Wyck 2004 Fall
Questions the literal burying of the nuclear threat and how it relates to expectations for our future
People of the Bomb: Portraits of America’s Nuclear Complex People of the Bomb Portraits of America’s Nuclear Complex Hugh Gusterson 2004 Spring
How the American military-industrial complex has invaded our consciousness to create consent for its programs
Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities, and the Production of Danger Cultures of Insecurity States, Communities, and the Production of Danger Jutta Weldes, Mark Laffey, Hugh Gusterson and Raymond Duvall, Editors 1999 Fall
Examines the cultural production of insecurity in local, national and international contexts.