Browsing by Subject "Militarism"

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Against Eurocentric narratives on militarism
(Routledge, 2023-06-06) Bilgin, Pınar
Aspects of the recent scholarship on militarism, especially those who focus on ‘militarization’ as a post-9/11 development, have met with criticism by scholars who have underscored that the violence incurred by everyday people in the hands of the(ir) state – be it in Belfast, Cairo, İstanbul, Paris, or Rio de Janeiro – is not new insofar as military practices of have always impinged upon everyday life. Even as I agree with the critics, I submit that substituting the notion of ‘militarization’ with ‘pacification’ or ‘martial politics’ may not suffice. For, the problem is not (only) with the concept of militarization but with Eurocentric historical narratives on militarism that have informed this conceptualization. Accordingly, I locate the problem with militarism and militarization at an epistemic level: our approaches to militarization have been informed by Eurocentric historical narratives that consider militarism as a problem that belongs to a past world, which incidentally includes our contem-poraries outside the ‘West’.
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How can a gender-aware analysis contribute to our understanding of security?
(2006) Şahin, Hande
This thesis discusses the possible contribution of a gender-aware analysis to our understanding of security. Within the discipline of International Relations, there is a great diversity in the range of perspectives on analyzing security. They have different answers to what is being secured, what is being secured against and who provides for security. In Security Studies, empirically based positivist perspectives, explicitly or implicitly specify what the referent of their studies is. It can be the system, state, society, and individuals. On the other hand, in feminist theory, it is all about rethinking concepts, rethinking models. It may appear that gender can have little to contribute to the study of security. However, this is not the case. The gender awareness in the study of security challenges the basic understanding of security. Structures and practices that are taken as given by traditional approaches within a patriarchal discourse serve only to obscure the inequalities and insecurities. In this thesis, through adding gender as a category of analysis, it is attempted to illustrate the gendered constructions of conflict, militarism and militarisation. Without making invisible visible, our understanding of security can only be partial.
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“Öğret Komutanım!”: Milli Güvenlik Bilgisi dersinin 1980 - 2012 yılları arası değişimi
(Bilkent University, 2023) Akan, Emir Yusuf; Copson, Deniz Elaine; Kışkan, Sabiha Gökçen; Koç, Elif; Kurt, Emre
Bu makale, 1926-2012 yılları arası verilmiş askeri derslerden 1980’de Milli Güvenlik Bilgisi ismiyle ortak milli eğitim müfredatına dahil edilmiş dersin 2012 yılında müfredattan kaldırılmasına kadarki tarihçesini ele alır. Dersin Atatürkçülük, laiklik ve militarizm odağında yaşadığı müfredat değişikliklerini siyasi etmenlere atıfta bulunarak açıklamaya çalışır. Aynı zamanda, dersin halk üzerinde bıraktığı etkiyi araştırmak adına dersin medyadaki temsilini inceler. Derse karşı bakış açısını anlamak için dersi vermiş bir öğretmen ve dersi almış öğrencilerle yapılan röportajları içerir. Dersin kaldırılması sürecini detaylı bir biçimde, o dönemde dersin kaldırılmasına ilişkin yapılmış açıklamalarla ve kaldırılmasına dair öne sürülen sebeplerle ele alır.
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The Roots of the July 1936 Coup: The Rebirth of Military Interventionism in the Spanish Infantry Academy, 1893–19271
(Routledge, 2021-08-27) Chamberlin, Foster
The coup attempt of July 1936 that began the Spanish Civil War differed from its predecessors in that the rebel officers sought to remake both the Spanish state and society. The roots of this new brand of military interventionism have been traced to Spain’s colonial wars in Morocco, but this article argues that they extended further back to the rebel officers’ training at Spain’s Infantry Academy, where, in the wake of defeat in the Spanish-American War, Regenerationist reformers within the academy recast the moral training that cadets received so that they felt it was the army’s duty to lead a transformation of Spanish society to return it to the imagined glories of Spain’s past.1
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The study of militarism: English-speaking world scholarship and Turkey’s scholarship compared
(2019-07) Özcan, Berika
Militarism has attracted academic attention since late seventeenth century. Scholars have defined and studied militarism in different ways. While during the First World War, militarism was studied as an ideology, in the post – Second World War period civil-military relations was the focus of analysis. Since the 1970s, the scholarship on militarism began to diversify. During the late 1980s, scholars started to study militarism as a sociological and historical phenomenon. This thesis aims to analyze how militarism has been studied in (English-speaking) world scholarship and in Turkey. By adopting meta-study technique, the thesis identifies the similarities and differences between the two bodies of scholarship. In the concluding section, the thesis discusses what Turkey’s scholarship on militarism has focused on and overlooked in comparison to world scholarship.