Abstract War metaphors permeate the world we live in. From wildlife documentaries (natural war) to curbing of academic freedom (war on woke), it seems that anything can be described in an essential likeness warfare. Drawing Lacanian psychoanalysis, this paper investigates ubiquity war critiques violence within Critical Security Studies and International Political Sociology. The analysis focuses...

This article proposes the category “non-militarism - militarism” to classify leadership of Mauricio Macri (2015) and Jair Bolsonaro (2018). It argues that this captures their styles with greater precision than ideological one. Using a mixed methodology based on tools from Manifesto Research Political Representation discursive analysis, it examines campaign spots last pre-election interviews bot...

The past ten years have witnessed a revival in scholarship on militarism, through which scholars used the concept to make sense of embeddedness warlike relations contemporary liberal societies and account for how social, political economic contours those same are implicated legitimation organization violence. However, persistent shortcoming has been secondary role race coloniality these account...