Suchergebnisse

1. Introduction: Study War No More? -- 2. Einstein's Lifetime Pacifism -- 3. Alice Herz: A Fiery Martyr for Peace -- 4. "Beyond Vietnam:" Deconstructing Dr. King's Riverside Address -- 5. Cindy Sheehan: From Grieving Mother to Peace Advocate -- 6. Wobblies Against War: The U.S. and Australian IWW Campaigns Against WWI -- 7. Draft Resistance and the Vietnam Era Antiwar Movement -- 8. Reagan's Proxy War on Nicaragua and Witness for Peace -- 9 Women's Peace Camps: From Greenham Common to Seneca and Beyond -- 10. Conclusion -- 11. Epilogue.

ABSTRACT
Dystopian settings are often dominated by fear and despair. As instruments and symbols of fear, guns, especially deployed in gendered ways, reinforce the dystopian setting. This article explores how guns and gender roles are represented in three dystopian novels (The Turner Diaries, The Road, and Parable of the Sower) and three dystopian films (Zardoz, The Terminator, and The Road). Examining how phallocentric aggression and toxic masculinity shape how guns are wielded by a number of characters in several of these films and novels, the article also suggests how critical dystopias offer insights into the conditions that create dystopia and impede alternative and better futures. By providing interpretive interventions into the constructions of the specific dystopian settings and the deployment of guns, the article offers new insights into the interface between gender, guns, and dystopia.

Is declining US hegemony and China's rising power a formula for regional and/or global conflict? In this article I address the present conditions and contradictions of US neo-imperialism and the role of China as a potential competitor to and challenger of US global hegemony. Given the entrenched interests of US military neo-imperialism such conflicts appear inevitable.

As part of the global circulation of capital and labor in the early twentieth century, labor and left activists traveled throughout the Pacific Rim. Highlighting the biographical and political journeys of two important left labor agitators of the period, Patrick Hickey and J. B. King, this essay considers the role of the agitator and the meaning of the left for the mobilization of working people during the first three decades of the twentieth century. Hickey and King both had early experiences with radical unions in North America, Hickey with the Western Federation of Miners in Utah and King with the Industrial Workers of the World in British Columbia. Their paths intersected in the formation of the left Federation of Labour (the "Red Feds") in New Zealand. Both went on to play significant roles in Australian left labor circles in the years before, during, and after the First World War. Diverging over strategy and tactics during this time, Hickey became involved with the Labor Party of Australia and King eventually joined the Communist Party of Australia. Their biographical and political journeys reveal significant insights into the splits within the left and the public role of left labor agitators in the Pacific Rim during this period.