This article works toward an ontology of war centered on the life of the planet, or geos. Noting a disciplinary tendency to focus on the makers of war, we ask: What if our analyses of war begin not with the technologies of killing but with the life that is targeted? Our response proceeds in four sections. We first identify a “militarized ontology” of war that forms through the ways that militaries figure violence as spatially and temporally “precise” and thus distinct from longer-term environmental effects. We then argue that these ontological bounds persist also in critical scholarship on war. Writing against such ontological contingencies, we learn from feminist IR to set out a theoretical path for knowing war on different terms, from the perspective of the geos. From here, our main contribution forms: Attending to war ecologies and non/human health, war appears in a form that critically contrasts with a large part of current work in IR; it is no longer a primarily accelerated, aerial, or remote activity but rather an enduring, terranean, and proximate intervention in the environment and the life it sustains. We close with explication of the significance of geos-centered study of war in IR and beyond.

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现代战争晚期和 theGeos


本文致力于以地球生命或地理为中心的战争本体论。注意到一种专注于战争制造者的学科倾向，我们问道：如果我们对战争的分析不是从杀戮的技术开始，而是从被针对的生命开始呢？我们的回应分为四个部分。我们首先确定了战争的“军事化本体论”，它是通过军队将暴力视为空间和时间上“精确”的方式形成的，因此与长期环境影响不同。然后，我们论证了这些本体论的界限在关于战争的批判性学术研究中也仍然存在。针对这种本体论的偶然性，我们从女权主义 IR 中学习，从地理的角度为不同术语理解战争开辟了一条理论路径。从这里开始，我们的主要贡献形式是：关注战争生态学和非/人类健康，战争以一种与当前国际关系领域大部分工作形成鲜明对比的形式出现;它不再是一种主要加速的、空中的或遥远的活动，而是对环境及其所维持的生命的持久、地形和近在咫尺的干预。最后，我们解释了以地理为中心的战争研究在 IR 及其他领域的重要性。