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Militarised settlers: Federica Caso, Settler Military Politics: Militarisation and the Aesthetics of War Commemoration, Edinburgh University Press, 2024

22Mar24

Description: Analyses the relation between visual culture, militarisation, and liberal governance. Elaborates on the relationship between militarisation and settler colonialism. Reads militarisation as a governing rationality. Focuses on the under-explored case study of Australia’s militarisation. Contributes to critical military and war studies by centring settler colonial relations and Indigeneity. Settler Military Politics provides a thorough investigation of the relationship between settler colonialism and militarisation drawing from the Australian experience. In this book, Caso develops the concept of settler military politics to identify the relationship between settler colonialism and militarisation. The book argues that militarisation is a rationality for governing the settler polity and consolidates the settler colonial project. It investigates settler military politics through an in-depth analysis of the under explored aesthetics of war commemoration in Australia and the role of the Australian War Memorial.


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