Patrolling the Homeland: Volunteer Border Militias and the Power of Moral Assemblages

ISBN-13: 9781032418094 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 248 str.

John Parsons

Opis

Patrolling the Homeland explores the tension surrounding the militarization of national borders through the perspective of US militia volunteers. A valuable read for anthropologists, sociologists, criminologists, and individuals with an interest in morality and ethics, militias and border studies.

Spis treści

Patrolling the Homeland - Volunteer Border Militias and the Power of Moral Assemblages  1. Border Watch  2. Morality  3. Ethnicity at the Nation’s Frontier  4. Experience, Narrative, and the Moral Imperative to Act  5. Embodied Narrative on the Border  6. The Moral Citizen, Virtue Ethics, and the Internal Ought  7. The Comfort to Act  A World Without Self-Reflection

O autorze

John R. Parsons holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Queensland. His research concentrates on the intersection of morality, narrative, and violence.