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Preparing for war: citizenship, militarization and the agencies of children and youth in security politics
Kathrin Hörschelmann
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Department of Geography, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Lukas Dreßen
Department of Geography, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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This paper examines how young people are enrolled in military security politics as a politics of killing and letting die that is enabled by generational injustice. Based on the analysis of the three case studies of military recruitment and citizenship in France, Sweden, and Latvia, the paper argues for greater attention to the militarization of young people’s lives and to the ethical and generational justice implications of this.
This paper examines how young people are enrolled in military security politics as a politics of...
