ABSTRACT
This chapter represents an admittedly tentative and preliminary explication of the processes, and forms, of kinesiology's ongoing militarization. The neoliberalization of public research universities has provided an economically stringent institutional climate conducive to the militarization of research and knowledge production. The chapter seeks to bring the militarization of kinesiology to the fore, in a manner designed to stimulate a wider discussion regarding the ethics of military funding directed at particular research areas within kinesiology. The characterization of kinesiology as a death science may appear somewhat exaggerated, and even unnecessarily provocative. Spatial constraints preclude us from providing anything more than a brief overview of the death science thematics of weaponized kinesiological research. Far from the scale and scope of the trickle-down scientific impact of the NASA Apollo moon missions in the 1960s and early 1970s, militarized kinesiology research has wrought significant benefits to specific segments of the civilian population.
