Settler Military Politics: Militarisation and the Aesthetics of War Commemoration

Settler Military Politics provides a thorough investigation of the relationship between settler colonialism and militarisation drawing from the Australian experience. In this book, Caso develops the concept of settler military politics to identify the relationship between settler colonialism and militarisation. The book argues that militarisation is a rationality for governing the settler polity and consolidates the settler colonial project. It investigates settler military politics through an in-depth analysis of the under explored aesthetics of war commemoration in Australia and the role of the Australian War Memorial.

Federica Caso is Lecturer in International Relations at La Trobe University. Her research interrogates gender and racial diversity in the military, war, and peacebuilding. She was awarded the 2020 the Thelma Hunter Gardner Prize for best PhD thesis in Gender and Politics by the Australian Political Studies Association. Her research has been published in International Political Sociology, Australian Journal of Political Science, Australian Journal of History and Politics, and Critical Military Studies.