BISA 2025 Conference

Neo-liberal militarisation and the "progressive" way of war

WE 18

18 Jun 2025, 15:00

1h 30m

Panorama, Grand Central Hotel

Critical Military Studies Working Group

Description

This panel explores the neoliberal militarisation of war - from the bureaucratisation of preparedness efforts to war labour and unionisation - and the 'progressive' way of war - where military climate accountability and the ecological way of war produce a 'sustainable' politics of violence

Subcontributions

• Total defence for whom? Investigating the boundary-making of Sweden's preparedness efforts
• The Ecological Way of War: The Politics of Sustainable Violence
• War, Labour, and the politics of military unions
• A New Geopolitics of Climate Mitigation and Adaption: Centering Carbon Bootprint in Emission Reductions