Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Preface: Performance in the Age of Intelligent Warfare -- Introduction: In the Absence of the Gun: Performing Militarization -- PART I Sites of Conflict -- 1 Mises-en-scène of Militarization: Decommissioning US Military Infrastructure in the Panama Canal Zone -- 2 Military Aid: The Spatial Performances and Performativity of Contemporary Refugee Camps -- 3 Sacred Children, Accursed Mothers: Performativities of Necropolitics and Mourning in Neoliberal Turkey -- 4 The Freedom Theatre and Cultural Resistance in Jenin, Palestine -- 5 Tactical Performance Across a Revolutionary Timeline -- PART II Militarized History and Memory -- 6 How to Do Things with Music Criticism: Performances of Victory in German Wagner Reception, 1918-1933 -- 7 "Stop the War in Chicago Please": Performative Protest and the Limits of Dissensus -- 8 Choreographies of Militarized Space: US Military Bases, Everyday Life, and Performance in Okinawa, Japan -- 9 Reviving the Tradition of the Battle Painting: The Militarization of Danish Culture -- PART III Performing the Soldier -- 10 Soldier Street Theater -- 11 No Easy Mission: Zero Dark Thirty and Gendered Heroism in the Post-Heroic Age -- 12 Going Outside the Wire: Service Members as Documentary Subjects in Black Watch and ReEntry -- 13 Challenging the Characterizations of Military Service: A Critical Comparison of British and American Counter-Recruitment Efforts -- 14 Strategic Simulation and the American Military Imaginary -- 15 Performing Flight: Test Pilots, Commercial Airlines, and the Cold War -- PART IV The Militarization of the Everyday -- 16 Picking Up the Gun: Spectacular Performances of Firearm Ownership in the Long Civil Rights Movement