Hegemony, instabilities, and interventions: a special issue on discourses of war and peace

The special issue of the Journal of Multicultural Discourses on discourses of war and peace, 70 years after the end of World War II, is introduced by discussing war culture as resilient but also unstable and subject to transformation. The special issue features six papers, each a distinct discursive intervention on topics that range from the mythic narrative of US insecurity to strategies of rhetorical bypassing, British colonial nostalgia, marginalized veterans of the Malvinas war, US military veterans waging peace, and characterizations of peace in Israeli children's periodicals. Together these six papers reveal the artificiality of naturalized discourses of war.