Resistance (creativity)

Abstract: Contents: Introduction, Richard Sorabji and David Rodin. Part I Traditions: Just war from ancient origins to the Conquistadors debate and its modern relevance, Richard Sorabji The just war of Eastern Christians and the holy war of the Crusaders, Angeliki Laiou Conceptions of justice in war: from Grotius to modern times, Karma Nabulsi Arguments concerning resistance in contemporary Islam, John Kelsay War and reason in Maimonides and Averroes, Noah Feldman The ethics of war: Judaism, Norman Solomon Just war in the Mahabharata, Nick Allen. Part II Contemporary Problems: The ethics of asymmetric war, David Rodin Preventive war and the killing of the innocent, Jeff McMahan War, humanitarian intervention and human rights, Richard Norman Culture, the enemy and the moral restraint of war, Anthony Coates Application of just war criteria in the period 1959-89, Richard Harries Britain's wars since 1945, Michael Quinlan Index.

Abstract: Although the themes of women's complicity in and resistance to war have been part of literature from early times, they have not been fully integrated into conventional conceptions of the war narrative. Combining feminist literary criticism with the emerging field of feminist war theory, this collection explores the role of gender as an organizing principle in the war system and reveals how literature perpetuates the ancient myth of "arms and the man." The volume shows how the gendered conception of war has both shaped literary texts and formed the literary canon. It identifies and interrogates the conventional war text, with its culturally determined split between warlike men and peaceful women, and it confirms that women's role in relation to war is much more complex and complicitous than such essentializing suggests. The contributors examine a wide range of familiar texts from fresh perspectives and bring new texts to light. Collectively, these essays range in time from the Trojan War to the nuclear age. The contributors are June Jordan, Lorraine Helms, Patricia Francis Cholakian, Jane E. Schultz, Margaret R. Higonnet, James Longenbach, Laura Stempel Mumford, Sharon O'Brien, Jane Marcus, Sara Friedrichsmeyer, Susan Schweik, Carol J. Adams, Esther Fuchs, Barbara Freeman, Gillian Brown, Helen M. Cooper, Adrienne Auslander Munich, and Susan Merrill Squier.

Abstract: *=NEW TO THIS EDITION CHAPTER 1. APPROACHES TO WAR 1. Why War?, Sigmund Freud 2. On Aggression, Konrad Z. Lorenz 3. Warfare Is Only an Invention--Not a Biological Necessity, Margaret Mead * 4. War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, Chris Hedges 5. War and Other Essays, William Graham Sumner 6. Victims of Groupthink, Irving Janis 7. The Causes of War, Michael Howard 8. A Structural Theory of Imperialism, Johan Galtung 9. National Images and International Systems, Kenneth Boulding 10. Glamorized Nationalism: Some Examples in Poetry 11. Redefining Security: The New Global Schisms, Michael T. Klare CHAPTER 2. PREVENTING WAR: BUILDING "NEGATIVE PEACE" 1. The Moral Equivalent of War, William James 2. Getting to YES, Roger Fisher and William Ury 3. Disarmament Demands GRIT, Charles Osgood * 4. Ten Nuclear Myths, David Krieger and Angela McCrackien * 5. A World Free of Nuclear Weapons, George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger, Sam Nunn * 6. A Powerful Peace, J. Schell 7. Finding the Future: The Role of Economic Conversion in Shaping the Twenty-First Century, Lloyd J. Dumas 8. International Law, David P. Barash * 9. An Insider's Guide to the UN, Linda Fasulo * CHAPTER 3. RESPONDING TO TERRORISM * 1. Terrorism Past and Present, Rand Corporation * 2. The Clash of Civilizations, Samuel P. Huntington * 3. Terrorism: Theirs and Ours, Eqbal Ahmad * 4. Defining a Just War, Richard Falk * 5. Dying to Win, The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, Robert Pape * 6. Terror, The Neglected but Inescapable Core of Terrorism, Charles P. Webel CHAPTER 4. BUILDING "POSITIVE PEACE" 1. The Land Ethic, Aldo Leopold * 2. Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, Al Gore 3. The Pedagogy of the Oppressed, P. Freire * 4. Global Economic Solidarity, Jeffrey Sachs 5. Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr 6. Human Rights, David P. Barash CHAPTER 5. NONVIOLENCE 1. Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau 2. Letter to Ernest Howard Crosby, Leo Tolstoy 3. Conscientious Objector, Edna St. Vincent Millay 4. Neither Victims Nor Executioners, Albert Camus 5. Ahimsa, or the Way of Nonviolence, Mohandas Gandhi 6. Civilian Resistance as a National Defense, Gene Sharp CHAPTER 6. RELIGIOUS INSPIRATION 1. The Bhagavad Gita, Hindu 2. Being Peace, Thich Nhat Hanh (Buddhist) 3. Tao De Ching, Taoist 4. The Old Testament, Jewish 5. The New Testament, Christian * 6. The Meaning of Jihad in Islam, Ali Gomaa 7. Holy Disobedience, A. J. Muste 8. A Devout Meditation in Memory of Adolf Eichmann, Thomas Merton CHAPTER 7. PEACE MOVEMENTS, TRANSFORMATION, AND THE FUTURE 1. Building Utopias in History, Elise Boulding 2. On Humane Governance, Richard Falk 3. Sexism and the War System, Betty Reardon * 4. A Human Approach to World Peace, Dalai Lama * 5. Empire v. Democracy: Why Nemesis Is at Our Door, Chalmers Johnson * 6. No Future Without Forgiveness, Desmond Tutu * 7. Antiwar Activists, Where Are You?, Victoria Bonney 8. A Few Poetic Visions

Abstract: Foreword Ian Bogost Introduction Nina B. Huntemann and Matthew Thomas Payne Section 1: Historicizing the Joystick Soldier 1. Living Room Wars: Remediation, Boardgames, and the Early History of Video Wargaming Sebastian Deterding 2. Target Acquired: America's Army and the Video Games Industry Randy Nichols 3. Training Recruits and Conditioning Youth: The Soft Power of Military Games David B. Nieborg Interview with James F. Dunnigan edited by Nina B. Huntemann and Matthew Thomas Payne Section 2: Representing War 4. Behind the Barrel: Reading the Video Game Gun Scott A. Lukas 5. War Games as a New Frontier: Securing American Empire in Virtual Space C. Richard King and David. J. Leonard 6. Future Combat, Combating Futures: Temporalities of War Video Games and the Performance of Proleptic Histories Josh Smicker Interview with Rachel Hardwick edited by Matthew Thomas Payne Section 3: Producing Pedagogical War 7. Mobilizing Affect: The Politics of Performative Realism in Military New Media Dan Leopard 8. A Battle in Every Classroom: Gaming in the U.S. Army Command & General Staff College Jeffrey Leser and James Sterrett 9. A Battle for Hearts and Minds: The Design Politics of ELECT BiLat Elizabeth Losh Interview with Colonel Casey Wardynski edited by Nina B. Huntemann Section 4: Playing War 10. "No Better Way to 'Experience' World War II": Authenticity and Ideology in the Call of Duty and Medal of Honor Player Communities Joel Penney 11. "F*ck You, Noob Tube!": Learning the Art of Ludic LAN War Mathew Thomas Payne 12. Playing with Fear: Catharsis and Resistance in Military-Themed Video Games Nina B. Huntemann Section 5: Resisting War 13. Playing Against the Grain: Machinima and Military Gaming Irene Chien 14. "Turn the game console off right now!": War, Subjectivity, and Control in Metal Gear Solid 2, Tanner Higgin 15. Dead-in-Iraq: The Spatial Politics of Digital Game Art Activism and the In-Game Protest Dean Chan. Gameography. List of Contributors. Index