Military Rituals. The Aesthetics of State Violence. Critics and Analysis of an Instrument of Dominance in its historic-systematic Context
by Markus Euskirchen
In military rituals modern nation states present themselves by showing their monopoly on violence in a ritualized manner. This work asks How are military rituals working? and Why do they exist? (and: How influences one answer the other?). A discussion of notions of ritual in social sciences on one hand and of the modern nation states monopoly on physical force on the other are the theoretical core and the context which is needed to understand military ritual as a socio-political phenomenon. âMilitary Rituals: Looking for translation sponsorshipâ weiterlesen