SOCY105 May 8 2012 Has war changed Some theorists Globalization o Less vertical more horizontal vertically or hierarchical War and Terrorism People fighting people and how those people are arranged are not always has o Nation states matter less o More combatants are non state actors o Governance no longer within states o Rise of non governmental organizations NGOs o Stronger transnational ties between informal groups more important Other theorists most of the non western world experienced war like this before Difference is that now we see what was always there wars of colonialism Identity Politics Movements that mobilize around ethnic racial or religious identity for the purpose of claiming state power o Remember questions of real and not real Politics of ideas open expansive future oriented Politics of identity closed exclusive fragmentative past focused Reaction to uncertainty and declining legitimacy of old political structures Barbarism and War Civilians and modern war what s changed Total war and line between combatants and civilians Technology and war what advances and changes o Distance o Language numbing glossolalia of techno speak o Epistemology how we know what we know Dehumanization The Gulf War Did Not Take Place War in the era of 24 hour news networks war mediated by the media Radar TV maps news Assymetrical Jean Baudrillard the Gulf War did not happen in the sense that things usually happen What we saw was not real Common understandings of war meaning making Events as spectacles ambient documentation Technology Simulation and shared experience
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