Military Workfare: The Soldier and Social Citizenship in Canada by Deborah Cowen

Military WorkfareThe Soldier and Social Citizenship in Canada\nAuthor(s): Deborah Cowen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9780802092335, 978-0802092335\nSynopsis\nDespite the centrality of war in social and political thought, the military remains marginal in academic and public conceptions of citizenship, and the soldier seems to be thought of as a peripheral or even exceptional player. Military Workfare draws on five decades of restricted archival material and critical theories on war and politics to examine how a military model of work, discipline, domestic space, and the social self has redefined citizenship in the wake of the Second World War. It is also a study of the complex, often concealed ways in which organized violence continues to shape national belonging.\n\nWhat does the military have to do with welfare? Could war-work be at the centre of social rights in both historic and contemporary conte.