| ID | 082633 |
| Title Proper | Post-Heroic warfare and ghosts |
| Other Title Information | the social control of dead American soldiers in Iraq |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Wasinski, Christophe |
| Publication | 2008. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | According to some researchers, the public acceptance of military intervention is conditional upon the minimization of military mortality. Once a threshold of military death is crossed, political leaders are obliged to limit their ambitions. This research proposes to consider the idea of threshold as mythical. Instead, it suggests focusing at the presence of the ghosts the dead American soldiers in the public sphere and the way they are ``ventriloquated'' in order to support or contest the intervention |
| `In' analytical Note | International Political Sociology Vol. 2, No.2; Jun 2008: p113-127 |
| Journal Source | International Political Sociology Vol. 2, No.2; Jun 2008: p113-127 |
| Key Words | Military Intervention ; American Soldiers in Iraq ; Post-Heroic Warfare |