Tarak barkawi biography
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Tarak Barkawi is professor of international relations at London School of Economics and Political Science. He is a scholar of war and empire. He uses interdisciplinary approaches to imperial and military archives to re-imagine relations between war, armed forces and society in modern times.
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Battle is radically under-theorized as a concept, despite its obvious historical importance. Battle appears as a self-evident fact, a real event with potentially decisive consequences. But battles are also constituted by interpretation. This talk uses battle to explore some of the relations between war and knowledge about war. Soldiers participate both in battle and in the production of histories about it. Accordingly, the genre of battle history emerges as a crucial form of mediation between warfront and homefront in the Anglo-American West. The talk closes by outlining a research project on the connections between war experience and history-writing, one which puts both fighting and interpretation in the same analytic frame.
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Tarak Barkawi
Can We Really “Forget” Militarization? A Conversation on Alison Howell’s Martial Politics
by Maya Eichler, Nisha Shah, and Tarak Barkawi
International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2019
's (2018) article "Forget 'Militarization': Race, Disability and the 'Martial Politics' of the Po... more 's (2018) article "Forget 'Militarization': Race, Disability and the 'Martial Politics' of the Police and of the University" has already generated many rich conversations. With its bold critique of formulaic uses of the term "militarization," and a call to observe the ways in which everyday life is shaped by martial politics, Howell's contribution especially gave pause to many of us who readily use the concept of militarization. One of Howell's core arguments is that the fixation with a perceived process of militarization is grounded in liberal fantasies of a "pre" or normal peaceful liberal order. She counters this, stating: "Normal politics" is not overtaken by "militarization"; instead, martial relations in here in liberal politics as they are enacted on populations deemed to be a threat to civil order or the health of the population, especially along lines of race, In
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