Militarizing the Body Politic

New Mediations as Weapons of Mass Instruction

Bibliographic Data

ID3205729
AuthorsPenelope Graham (0000-0001-5701-5922, The University of Queensland, corresponding author), Philip Graham (0000-0003-3301-0312, UQ Business School, University of Queensland), Allan Luke (National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Year2003
Volume9
Issue4
Pages149-168
Publication date2003-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBody & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1357-034X • E-ISSN: 1460-3632
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/135703403773684702
OpenAlexW1999251866
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited31

As militarization of bodies politic continues apace the world over, as military organizations again reveal themselves as primary political, economic and cultural forces in many societies, we argue that the emergent and potentially dominant form of political economic organization is a species of neo-feudal corporatism. Drawing upon Bourdieu, we theorize bodies politic as living habitus. Bodies politic are prepared for war and peace through new mediations, powerful means of public pedagogy. The process of militarization requires the generation of new, antagonistic evaluations of other bodies politic. Such evaluations are inculcated via these mediations, the movement of meanings across time and space, between formerly disparate histories, places, and cultures. New mediations touch new and different aspects of the body politic: its eyes, its ears, its organs, but they are consistently targeted at the formation of dispositions, the prime movers of action

Body politic · Cultural capital · Environmental ethics · Feudalism · Habitus · Militarization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Sports, Gender, and Society

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