{"title":"Julia Welland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJulia Welland\u003c\/strong\u003e offers insightful explorations into the complexities of contemporary militarism, blending critical analysis with nuanced perspectives. Her works delve into themes of power, conflict, and the human experiences shaped by military forces in the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thought-provoking studies that challenge traditional narratives within \u003cem\u003eHistory \u0026amp; Military\u003c\/em\u003e, engaging with socio-political dimensions and the emotional landscapes entwined with warfare and its aftermath.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"pleasure-and-depletion-in-contemporary-militarism-by-julia-welland-9781399530743","title":"Pleasure and Depletion in Contemporary Militarism","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book asks why US service members, veterans, and military families continue to affectively invest in militarism—both as a structure of global politics and in their everyday lives—when they have experienced first-hand its physical and emotional costs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with military communities and ethnographic insights from a range of military sites, \u003cem\u003ePleasure and Depletion in Contemporary Militarism\u003c\/em\u003e examines how those service members, veterans, and military families who have been physically and emotionally depleted through their intimate relations to US militarism are the same individuals who have simultaneously experienced its concomitant pleasures, joys, and have built lives and worlds through their attachment to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUltimately, the book argues these dual and contradictory experiences are central to militarism's endurance in global politics; both through individuals' continued affective investment in a militarised pathway and through the incremental and incomplete ways that militarism is reproduced in their everyday lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47934186324204,"sku":"9781399530743","price":357.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781399530743-pleasure-and-depletion-in-contemporary-militarism.jpg?v=1783902457"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/julia-welland.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}