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Author Frühstück, Sabine, author

Title Playing war : children and the paradoxes of modern militarism in Japan / Sabine Frühstück
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 276 pages)
Contents Playing War: Field games. Paper battles -- Picturing war: The moral authority of innocence. Queering war -- Epilogue: the rule of babies in pink
Summary "For over a century throughout Japan and beyond, children and concepts of childhood have been appropriated as tools for decidedly unchildlike purposes: to validate, moralize, humanize, and naturalize war, and to sentimentalize peace. Playing War argues that modern conceptions of war insist on and exploit a specific and static notion of the child: that the child, though the embodiment of vulnerability and innocence, nonetheless possesses an inherent will to war, and that this seemingly contradictory creature demonstrates what it means to be human. In examining the intersection of children/childhood with war/military, Sabine Frühstück identifies the insidious factors perpetuating this alliance, thus rethinking the very foundations of modern militarism. She also interrogates how essentialist notions of both childhood and war have been productively intertwined; how assumptions about childhood and war have converged; and how children and childhood have worked as symbolic constructions and powerful rhetorical tools, particularly in the decades between the nation and empire-building efforts of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries up to the uneven manifestations of globalization at the beginning of the twenty-first."--Provided by publisher
Analysis child labor
child military
childhood
children
exploiting children
globalization
history of children and war
history of children
innocence
japan
late 19th century
modern conceptions of war
modern militarism
naturalizing war
peace
rhetorical tools
symbolic constructions
vulnerability
what it means to be human
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 22, 2017)
Subject Children and war -- Japan
Children and war -- Japan -- History
Militarism -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
War -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
Children and war
Militarism
War
Japan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017000500
ISBN 9780520968233
0520968239