Feminist Praxis against U.S. Militarism

Edited by Nami Kim and Wonhee Anne Joh - Contributions by Lisa Dellinger; Wonhee Anne Joh; Nami Kim; Kate Ott; Mai-Anh Tran; Keun-Joo Christine Pae; Andrea Smith; B. Yuki Schwartz; Pamela Lightsey and Kristen J. Leslie

Feminist Praxis against U.S. Militarism provides critical feminist and womanist analyses of U.S. militarism that challenge the ongoing U.S. neoliberal military-industrial complex and its multivalent violence that destroys people’s lives, especially women and other vulnerable populations. It highlights the intentional critique of U.S. militarism from feminist/womanist perspectives that seek to show the ways in which gender, race/ethnicity, sexuality, and violence intersect to threaten women’s lives, especially women of color’s lives, and the broader environment upon which women’s lives are dependent. Most of all, this volume challenges the readers to understand the U.S. as the warfare, counterterror, carceral state and its devastating effects on the everyday lives of women, especially women of color, locally, nationally, and globally. This volume also helps readers understand the racialized gendered impacts of U.S. militarism in conjunction with the ongoing global economies of dispossession and militarized violence across the borders of nation-states. Interrogating U.S. military interventions in “other” countries can show how the U.S. War on Terror directly affects U.S. “domestic” affairs and daily lives in the United States.

Lexington Books

Pages: 194 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜

978-1-4985-7921-6 • Hardback • December 2019 • $117.00 • (£90.00)

978-1-4985-7922-3 • eBook • December 2019 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

Series: Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology

Subjects: Social Science / Women's Studies, Religion / Christian Ministry / General, Political Science / Public Policy / Military Policy

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Feminist Praxis against U.S. Militarism provides critical feminist and womanist analyses of U.S. militarism that challenge the ongoing U.S. neoliberal military-industrial complex and its multivalent violence that destroys people’s lives, especially women and other vulnerable populations. It highlights the intentional critique of U.S. militarism from feminist/womanist perspectives that seek to show the ways in which gender, race/ethnicity, sexuality, and violence intersect to threaten women’s lives, especially women of color’s lives, and the broader environment upon which women’s lives are dependent. Most of all, this volume challenges the readers to understand the U.S. as the warfare, counterterror, carceral state and its devastating effects on the everyday lives of women, especially women of color, locally, nationally, and globally. This volume also helps readers understand the racialized gendered impacts of U.S. militarism in conjunction with the ongoing global economies of dispossession and militarized violence across the borders of nation-states. Interrogating U.S. military interventions in “other” countries can show how the U.S. War on Terror directly affects U.S. “domestic” affairs and daily lives in the United States.

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Lexington Books

Pages: 194 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜

978-1-4985-7921-6 • Hardback • December 2019 • $117.00 • (£90.00)

978-1-4985-7922-3 • eBook • December 2019 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

Series: Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology

Subjects: Social Science / Women's Studies, Religion / Christian Ministry / General, Political Science / Public Policy / Military Policy

Author

Wonhee Anne Joh is professor of theology and culture at Garrett Theological Seminary, faculty director of the Asian American Ministry Center, faculty affiliate in the Departments of Religious Studies and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University, and author of, Heart of the Cross: A Postcolonial Christology and co-editor of Critical Theology Against US Militarism in Asia: Decolonization and Deimperialization.

Nami Kim is associate professor of religious studies and chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Spelman College and author of The Gendered Politics of the Korean Protestant Right: Hegemonic Masculinity and co-editor of Critical Theology against U.S. Militarism in Asia: Decolonization and Deimperialization.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

Nami Kim and Wonhee Anne Joh

CHAPTER ONE

“The Militarism of Racialization, Colonization, and Heteropatriarchy” by Andrea Smith

CHAPTER TWO

“Manifesting Evil: The Doctrine of Discovery as Christianized Genocide in the Lives of Indigenous Women and Their Communities” by Lisa Dellinger

CHAPTER THREE

“From My Lai to Ferguson: Collaterality, Grievous Deaths, Militarized Orientalism, Benevolence, and Racism” by Mai-Anh Tran

CHAPTER FOUR

“The Shame Culture of Empire: The Chrysanthemum and the Sword as Handbook for Cold War Imperialism” by B. Yuki Schwartz

CHAPTER FIVE

“The Remains of the War Ruins: U.S. Military Prostitution in South Korea” by K. Christine Pae

CHAPTER SIX

“Blinking Red: The Escalation of a Militarized Police Force and Its Challenges to Black Communities” by Pamela Lightsey

CHAPTER SEVEN

“The Muslim Ban and (Un)Safe America” by Nami Kim

CHAPTER EIGHT

“Feminist Strategies for Outsider-Insiders: Our Year Teaching Navy Chaplains” by Kate Ott and Kristen J. Leslie

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

Reviews

This book provides much for reflection on the complexification of notions of violence. It makes cogent points about the role of growing militarization and how narratives of safety, security, and violence against women are used to support the proliferation of the military industrial complex into many realms of religion and society.
— Neomi De Anda, University of Dayton

This provocative book by, leading cutting-edge transnational and cross-racial Christian feminist/womanist scholars, provides in-depth, critical, and comprehensive analyses of the current US Christian supremacy that fuels militarized white nationalism and US imperial projects. It helps readers connect many invisible dots between police violence, racialized surveillance, anti-black racism, the prison-industrial complex, Islamophobia, and settler colonialism through the lens of militarization and colonialism. A must-read for anyone concerned about the world and justice!
— Boyung Lee, Iliff School of Theology

Grounded in ongoing experiences of colonialist militarism, these engaging essays offer cogent, sophisticated analyses that unpack Christian collusion, both implicit and explicit, in the ongoing project of U.S. imperialism. And, more importantly, they offer liberative theo-political practices committed to resisting endless war and making peace.
— Rita Nakashima Brock, co-author of Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury After War, director of the Shay Moral Injury Center at Volunteers of America