Embodying the garrison state? Everyday geographies of militarization in American society
Embodying the garrison state? Everyday geographies of militarization in American society
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体现驻军状态？
DOI：
10.1016/j.polgeo.2010.02.014
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发表时间：
2010
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
C. Flint
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作者：
Richelle Bernazzoli;C. Flint
这项研究评估了驻军国家假说(Lasswell，1941,1962)，该假说假设美国和其他民主国家正在成为军事化社会，由军事文化、价值观和目标主导。在多位学者工作的基础上，他们最近发现了美国政策和其他源于正式国家机器的行动的军事化，我们探索了民族国家的日常地理，特别强调了人们在当地环境中的经历和活动。考虑到该州日常地理构成的偶然性，我们使用采访、参与者观察和文献证据对与肯塔基州坎贝尔堡相邻的两个城镇(肯塔基州霍普金斯维尔和田纳西州克拉克斯维尔)进行了分析，以检查军国主义的表现和正在进行的军事化进程。尽管它们共同毗邻坎贝尔堡，但霍普金斯维尔和克拉克斯维尔的行动者的代理有时导致抵抗和接受军事化进程的不同基础。我们的结论是，“友好的”或民主的“驻军国家”的建设不是以一种简单的、自上而下的方式出现的，而是只有构成国家日常地理的人和做法才是可能的，尽管这一过程在不同的环境中谈判是不同的，因为他们内部发生了复杂的中央与地方关系。
This study evaluates the garrison state hypothesis (Lasswell, 1941, 1962), which posited that the United States and other democratic states were becoming militarized societies, dominated by military culture, values, and goals. Building on the work of various scholars who have more recently identified the militarization of U.S. policies and other actions emanating from the formal state apparatus, we have explored the everyday geographies of the nation-state, with particular emphasis upon the experiences and activities of people in local settings. Considering the contingency of how everyday geographies of the state are constituted, two towns (Hopkinsville, Kentucky and Clarksville, Tennessee) neighboring Fort Campbell, Kentucky are analyzed using interviews, participant observations, and documentary evidence to examine manifestations of militarism and ongoing processes of militarization. Despite their common adjacency to Fort Campbell, the agency of actors in Hopkinsville and Clarksville has at times resulted in different bases for resistance to, and acceptance of, militarizing processes. We conclude that the construction of a ‘friendly’ or democratic ‘garrison state’ does not emerge in a simple, top-down manner, but rather is possible only with the people and practices who constitute the everyday geographies of the state, though this process is negotiated differently in different settings due to the complex central–local relations occurring within them.