2020/07/30 by J Marshall Beier, J. Marshall Beier, Jana Tabak · 3 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Children's Rights and Participation #Gender, Security, and Conflict #Migration, Health and Trauma
paper · doi:10.1177/0907568220923902
openalex publication_date 2020/07/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
Like childhood, thinking critically about militarism can entail a great deal of unlearning before coming to a more nuanced understanding of what lies beyond the signifier. Just as childhoods are multiple, overlapping, contingent, and bound up in many more aspects of our social worlds than is apparent if we look only for the child, so too militarism. The ways in which militarisms intersect childhoods and vice versa, therefore, call us to reflect not only on the conspicuous presence of militaries as institutions or on life in zones of conflict, but on the everyday lives of children everywhere in all their complexity and diversity.