Playing war : children and the paradoxes of modern militarism in Japan

Playing war : children and the paradoxes of modern militarism in Japan / Sabine Frühstück.

"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 a...

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Main Author: Frühstück, Sabine (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Children and war > Japan.
Children and war > Japan > History.
Militarism > Japan > History > 20th century.
War > History > 20th century.
Children and war.
Militarism.
War.
Kind
Kriegsspiel
Militarismus
Pazifismus
Japan.
Japan
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the vulnerability hypothesis
  • Part I. Playing War. Field games
  • Paper battles
  • Part II. Picturing war. The moral authority of innocence
  • Queering war
  • Epilogue : the rule of babies in pink.

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