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The ephemera of dissident memory: Remembering military violence in 21st-century American war culture.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The ephemera of dissident memory: Remembering military violence in 21st-century American war culture./
Author:	Walsh, Bryan Thomas.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	216 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-08(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-08A(E).
Subject:	Rhetoric. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10256946
ISBN:	9781369617504

The ephemera of dissident memory: Remembering military violence in 21st-century American war culture.
Walsh, Bryan Thomas.

The ephemera of dissident memory: Remembering military violence in 21st-century American war culture. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 216 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-08(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2017.

The militarization of 21st-century American society is an entrenched and volatile system of institutional and cultural power, one that is not likely to go away despite the national fantasy that withdrawing US troops from foreign territories will inaugurate a new era of peace and return us to "the way things were." The Ephemera of Dissident Memory: Remembering Military Violence in 21st-Century American War Culture explores the domestic and transnational legacies of the "War on Terror," arguing that America's contemporary war campaigns are waged in part against the memories of state-sanctioned military violence and those oft-overlooked populations who struggle against it. Specifically, I argue that increasingly expansive atmospheres of US military violence not only harms particular civilian communities but also prompts state institutions to govern the norms through which such communities can make sense of personal loss and attribute significance to the complex histories of America's prolonged military campaigns. What gets lost within these particular junctures of 21st-century US military violence and power are the symbolic repertoires through which populations can narrate and put into expression the ways that military violence has painfully but nonetheless routinely organized and deteriorated their lives. For my dissertation, therefore, the critical task is to interrogate the discursive techniques through which the state represses troubling histories of US military violence. More importantly, the dissertation will also bring attention to those ephemeral but nonetheless vital acts of dissident memory that populations engender in order to negotiate, contest, and occasionally dismantle the conditions of state-sanctioned military violence that routinely compromise the safety and integrity of their lives.

ISBN: 9781369617504Subjects--Topical Terms:

516647
Rhetoric.

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