Unstaging War, Confronting Conflict and Peace
This book presents the concept of ‘unstaging’ war as a strategic response to the failure of the discourse and institutions of peace. This failure is explained by exploring the changing character of conflict in current and emergent global circums
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Unstaging War, Confronting Conflict and Peace
Tony Fry
Unstaging War, Confronting Conflict and Peace
Tony Fry Architecture and Design University of Tasmania Launceston, TAS, Australia
ISBN 978-3-030-24719-5 ISBN 978-3-030-24720-1 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24720-1 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: Dmitriy Divanov/Alamy Stock Photo This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Preface
The late modern age is unlike any other. Life, at least for the population of the electronically connected, is now lived in the shadow of multiple fast and slow forms of total annihilation, with the facts, images and fictional plays on this end-time continually arriving in a stream representational forms. This assault of the terminal thus arrives via the daily news, topical documentaries, movies, Internet content, social media and video games. The remarkable thing about it is while it unsettles some it is dominantly ignored my most. In fact seeking out the image of the end has become the ‘stuff,’ and a particular genre of entertainment. War of course figures in the end-times: as nuclear wasteland, the permanent condition of conflict in a post-apocalyptic world, the instrument for holding a new savagery at bay, and more. The dangers of an impending end are real, and they are crises. Likewise so is the possibility of sliding into hegemonic war as a normalised condition of being. The refusal to confront the reality of crises is itself is a crisis. ‘Unstaging war’ is situated in the nexus between the presence, and also the negation, of crisis, the changing na
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