In October 2011, the Kenyan military invaded southern Somalia with the stated purpose of addressing the threat posed by the Somali militant group Al-Shabaab. This article illustrates how the Kenyan state invokes the ongoing fight against Al-Shabaab to perform what Merje Kuus refers to as “cosmopolitan militarism,” shifting attention away from the material dimensions of war and geopolitics to more abstract, imaginative domains. Cosmopolitan militarism functions here as a form of nation branding, marking Kenya as exceptional for its commitment to liberal norms of peace and security. At the same time, I draw upon state-produced documents, advertisements, and public speeches and events to analyze how cultural production shapes subjectivities, cultivating new imaginative geographies, militarized masculinities, and religiously inflected attachments to war.

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#SomeoneTellCNN：东非战争景观中的世界主义军国主义

2011年10月，肯尼亚军方入侵索马里南部，其既定目的是解决索马里激进组织青年党的威胁。这篇文章说明了肯尼亚政府如何唤起正在进行的与青年党的斗争，以执行默耶·库斯所说的“国际军国主义”，将注意力从战争和地缘政治的物质层面转移到更抽象的，富有想象力的领域。世界主义的军国主义在这里是一种国家烙印，标志着肯尼亚对致力于和平与安全的自由规范的杰出表现。同时，我利用国家制作的文件，广告以及公开演讲和事件来分析文化生产如何塑造主体性，培养新的想象地理学，军事化的男性气概，