War as Experience
Author: Christine Sylvester
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 0415775981
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a new theoretical lens for feminists to understand war, security studies and international relations.
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Experiencing War
Author: Christine Sylvester
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-11-23
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 1136888519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited collection explores aspects of contemporary war that affect average people –physically, emotionally, and ethically through activities ranging from combat to television viewing. The aim of this work is to supplement the usual emphasis on strategic and national issues of war in the interest of theorizing aspects of war from the point of view of individual experience, be the individual a combatant, a casualty, a supporter, opponent, recorder, veteran, distant viewer, an international lawyer, an ethicist or other intellectual. This volume presents essays that push the boundaries of war studies and war thinking, without promoting one kind of theory or methodology for studying war as experiential politics, but with an eye to exploring the possibilities and encouraging others to take up the new agenda. It includes new and challenging thinking on humanitarianism and war, new wars in the Third World, gender and war thinking, and the sense of the body within war that inspires recent UN resolutions. It also gives examples that can change our understanding of who is located where doing what with respect to war –women warriors in Sierra Leone, war survivors living with their memories, and even an artist drawing something seemingly intangible about war –the arms trade. The unique aspect of this book is its purposive pulling together of foci and theoretical and methodological perspectives from a number of disciplines on a variety of contemporary wars. Arguably, war is an activity that engages the attention, the politics, and the lives of many people. To theorize it with those lives and perspectives in mind, recognizing the political contexts of war, is long overdue. This inter-disciplinary book will be of much interest to students of war studies, critical security studies, gender studies, sociology and IR in general.
War and the Arc of Human Experience
Author: Glenn Petersen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2021-05-20
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0761872361
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlenn Petersen flew seventy combat missions in Vietnam when he was nineteen, launching from an aircraft carrier in the Tonkin Gulf. He’d sought out the weighty responsibilities and hazardous work. But why? What did the cultural architecture of the society he grew up in have to do with the way he went to war? In this book he looks at the war from an anthropological perspective because that’s how he’s made his living in all the subsequent years: it’s how he sees the world. While anthropologists write about the military and war these days, they do so from the perspective of researchers. What makes this a fully original contribution is that Petersen brings to the page the classic methodology of ethnographers, participant observation—a kind of total immersion. He writes from the dual perspectives of an insider and a researcher and seeks in the specifics of lived experience some larger conclusions about humans’ social lives in general. Petersen was long oblivious to what had happened to him in Vietnam and he fears that young men and women who’ve been fighting the US military’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq might be similarly unaware of what’s happened to them. Skills that allowed him to survive in combat, in particular his ability to focus tightly on the challenges directly in front of him, seemed to transfer well to life after war. The same intensity led him to a successful academic career, including the time he represented the Micronesian islands at the United Nations;how could anything be wrong? Then surreptitiously,the danger, the stress, and the trauma he’d hidden away broke through a brittle shell and the war came spilling out. As an anthropologist he sees in this a classic pattern: an adaptation to one set of conditions is put to a new and practical use when conditions change, but in time what had once been beneficial turns into maladaptive behavior. In writing about why we fight, he shed lights on what the fighting does to us.
The Ultimate Experience
Author: Y. Harari
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008-03-07
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 0230583881
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor millennia, war was viewed as a supreme test. In the period 1750-1850 war became much more than a test: it became a secular revelation. This new understanding of war as revelation completely transformed Western war culture, revolutionizing politics, the personal experience of war, the status of common soldiers, and the tenets of military theory.
War Experience and Memory in Global Cultures Since 1914
Author: Angela K. Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-05-11
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 0429953569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited collection explores and develops representations of war experience from 1914 to the ongoing conflicts of the 21st century, through the specific lens of memory. It builds on recent explorations of the importance of war experience in shaping cultural memory that have focused on the aftermath of the First World War and the Second World War, particularly through Holocaust studies. These essays, by a range of international and interdisciplinary scholars, broaden the scope considerably, examining the alternate spaces of the First World War and those that followed it through a range of different media, offering an artistic trajectory to the centennial commemorations of 2014-18.
War and the Body
Author: Kevin McSorley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0415692156
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book places the body at the centre of critical thinking about war, giving embodiment and bodily issues an analytic recognition they have often been denied in the annuals and ontology of conventional war scholarship"--Page [1].
Grassroots Fascism
Author: Yoshimi Yoshiaki
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2015-03-24
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 0231538596
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrassroots Fascism profiles the Asia Pacific War (1937–1945)—the most important though least understood experience of Japan's modern history—through the lens of ordinary Japanese life. Moving deftly from the struggles of the home front to the occupied territories to the ravages of the front line, the book offers rare insights into popular experiences from the war's troubled beginnings through Japan's disastrous defeat in 1945 and the new beginning it heralded. Yoshimi Yoshiaki mobilizes diaries, letters, memoirs, and government documents to portray the ambivalent position of ordinary Japanese as both wartime victims and active participants. He also provides penetrating accounts of the war experiences of Japan's minorities and imperial subjects, including Koreans and Taiwanese. His book challenges the idea that the Japanese people operated as a mere conduit for the military during the war, passively accepting an imperial ideology imposed upon them by the political elite. Viewed from the bottom up, wartime Japan unfolds as a complex modern mass society, with a corresponding variety of popular roles and agendas. In chronicling the diversity of wartime Japanese social experience, Yoshimi's account elevates our understanding of "Japanese Fascism." In its relation of World War II to the evolution—and destruction—of empire, it makes a fresh contribution to the global history of the war. Ethan Mark's translation supplements the Japanese original with explanatory notes and an in-depth introduction that situates the work within Japanese studies and global history.
Motivation in War
Author: Ilya Berkovich
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-02-02
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1107167736
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains the motivation of ordinary soldiers to enlist, serve and fight in the armies of eighteenth-century Europe.
Facing Armageddon
Author: Hugh Cecil
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2003-04-01
Total Pages: 974
ISBN-13: 1473813972
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFacing Armageddon is the first scholarly work on the 1914-18 War to explore, on a world-wide basis, the real nature of the participants experience. Sixty-four scholars from all over the globe deliver the fruits of recent research in what civilians and servicemen passed through, in the air, on the sea and on land.
The Second World War Experience
Author: R. J. Overy
Publisher: Carlton Books
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fourth and final volume in the landmark Second World War Experience series goes through the gripping sequence of events that finally brought the war to an end--from the dramatic Allied landings on D-Day in the west to the atomic bombs exploding on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the east.
