{"product_id":"governing-military-sacrifice-bianca-baggiarini-9781487510886","title":"Governing Military Sacrifice: Drones, Privatization, and the Future of War","description":"\u003cem\u003eGoverning Military Sacrifice\u003c\/em\u003e examines the deterioration of the relationship between citizen-soldiering and military sacrifice. As a key historical archetype, the citizen-soldier has come to represent the highest expression of devotion for the nation in cultural imaginings of war. However, this book asks if bloodshed today even requires this offering of the self. This work explores the social, ethical, and political implications of the desire to enact violence in a post-sacrificial world.\u003cbr\u003eFollowing the Vietnam War, casualty-aversion and a political intolerance for wartime deaths and injuries turned military sacrifice from a simple assumption to an increasingly contested idea. As a result, military sacrifice became governed. Sociologist and international relations scholar Bianca Baggiarini argues that military privatization and the usage of drones in warfare emerged as related or parallel measures to exercise control over martyrdom. Drawing on Foucauldian discourse analysis and interview data with drone pilots, soldiers, veterans, and defence professionals, the book traces the decay of the sacrificial cults and idioms surrounding the citizen-soldier. \u003cbr\u003eWhen military sacrifice is no longer an assumed feature of war, it radically transforms the social and political meaning of bodies-in-war. Altering how we understand and witness war, technological transformations create an \"anti-social\" version of conflict which constrains our ability to critique and prevent its outbreak. \u003cem\u003eGoverning Military Sacrifice\u003c\/em\u003e thus inquires whether the future of war may be found in a return to the past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bianca Baggiarini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1487510888\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487510886\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Bianca Baggiarini","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47610933117183,"sku":"9781487510886","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1870e723-4ea6-4bd9-a8d2-1bf29fe78758.jpg?v=1764510651","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/governing-military-sacrifice-bianca-baggiarini-9781487510886","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}