BISA 2026 Conference

Coloniality, identity and embodiment in the military

TH04

4 Jun 2026, 15:00

1h 30m

Syndicate 3, Brighton Centre

Critical Military Studies Working Group

Description

A panel created by the CMS Working Group Convenors of existing paper abstracts.

Subcontributions

• Belonging in the British Army: establishing an analysis of military belonging through embodied corporeality
• Military migration narratives and policy in the United Kingdom: a decolonial analysis
• Claiming the Political from Home: Political Registers of Militarized Masculinities in Turkey
• Status anxiety and the postcolonial military: The making of the Brazilian Army’s Identity
• Civilizing Waziristan: Operation Rah-e-Nijat and Colonial Performance of Counterinsurgency