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The Risks of Scholarly Militarization: A Feminist Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2010

Cynthia Enloe
Cynthia Enloe
Affiliation:
Department of International Development, Community, and Environment and Women's Studies, Clark University. E-mail: [email protected]
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Michael Mosser's thoughtful essay calls on us as political scientists to engage more closely with the contemporary US military. To weigh the implications of such a proposal, we need to consider, I think, not just the military but the wider, deeper processes of militarization. As a multi-layered economic, political, and cultural process, militarization can be blatant and off-putting; but just as often it can be subtle and seductive. All of us trying to craft the best practices of political science here in the United States in the early decades of the twenty-first century are making those scholarly efforts at a time when militarization is a potent process in American public life. Awareness of its potency breeds scholarly caution.

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Reflections Symposium
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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , December 2010 , pp. 1107 - 1111
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2010

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