War Beyond the Battlefield

Taylor & Francis

In an effort to make sense of war beyond the battlefield in studying the wars that were captured under the rubric of the \""War on Terror\"", this special issue book seeks to explore the complex spatial relationships between war and the spaces that one is not used to thinking of as the battlefield. It focuses on the conflicts that still animate the spaces and places where violence has been launched and that the war has not left untouched. In focusing on war beyond the battlefield, it is not that the battlefield as the place where war is waged has gone in smoke or has borne out of importance, it is rather the case that the battlefield has been dis-placed, re-designed, re-shaped and rethought through new spatializing practices of warfare. These new spaces of war \u2013 new in the sense that they are not traditionally thought of as spaces where war takes place or is brought to \u2013 are television screens, cellular phones and bandwidth, George W. Bush\u2019s ranch in Crawford, Texas, vid.