Militarization of childhood(s) in Donbas

‘Growing together with the Republic’

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8912418
AutoresI Hoban (0000-0003-3483-1083, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume57
Fascículo1
Páginas108-129
Data de publicação2021-08-13
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCooperation and Conflict (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0010-8367 • E-ISSN: 1460-3691
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00108367211036917
OpenAlexW3195661821
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas49

This essay critically examines how the militarization of childhood(s) takes place in the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics. The intensification of hostilities in Eastern Ukraine in mid-2014 has had a profound impact on local populations, particularly children. While no systematic recruitment and participation of children in conflict has been reported, childhood has become what Agathangelou and Killian would characterize as a ‘site for displacement and maneuvering for militarization.’ Drawing on feminist methodologies, I examine processes of the militarization of children’s everyday lives. This article investigates a range of ways in which authorities of proto-states in the Donbas region address children as participants and potential collaborators in the processes of militarization. In my analysis, I examine how war and preparation for it are simultaneously co-constituted by the geopolitical—legitimation of new proto-states—and everyday practices, such as engaging with school curricula, visiting museums, and (re)inventing historical narratives. Understanding of mechanisms that militarize childhood and how children become subjects and objects of militarization allows for a critical analysis that reveals spaces of everyday violence. This article, therefore, enhances our understanding about the intersections of childhood, militarism, and security

Criminology · Geography · Geopolitics · Militarism · Militarization · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Peacebuilding and International Security