Toxic Military Masculinities and the Politics of Conscript After-Death Remembrance in Singapore
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2897883 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Lowe (0000-0001-5865-2480, Monash University School of Arts & Social Sciences Malaysia Kuala Lumpur, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 178 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 67-89 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0006-2294 • E-ISSN: 2213-4379 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/22134379-bja10034 |
| OpenAlex | W4226140301 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 57 |
This article discusses the relationality between death and masculinity in economically prosperous Singapore. In positioning the Singaporean male conscript, spatially disciplined by the state in both life and death, this article discusses how the reproduction of militarized masculinities through National Service (NS) in Singapore is co-constitutive of geopolitical tensions that contour how the space of the male body is reproduced. In the aftermath of four training-related deaths, this article examines the extent to which the authoritarian state is selective in exercising necropower by denying slain military bodies their existence as bodies-as-space. Granted that bodies-as-space are generative of emotions and affects, the final section of this article discusses how the Singaporean state exercises necropower to enhance life-giving conditions. It does so by deciding which military cadavers are most worthy of communicating affects and emotions for the purposes of preventing future deaths from training and ensuring support for conscription
Authoritarianism · Criminology · Democracy · Geopolitics · Masculinity · Militarization · Military service · Political science · Politics · Reproduction · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · State (computer science · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Philosophy · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · South Asian Cinema and Culture
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |