Experiencing war
By: edited by Christine Sylvester
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780415566308; 9780415566315
Description: "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"--Publisher.
Table of contents: title: Experiencing war : an introduction / Christine Sylvester; title: The passions of protection : sovereign authority and humanitarian war / Anne Orford; title: Gendered humanitarianism : reconsidering the ethics of war / Kimberly Hutchings; title: Wars, bodies, and development / Brigitte Holzner; title: Ruling exceptions : female soldiers and everyday experiences of civil conflict / Megan MacKenzie; title: Experiencing the Cold War / Heonik Kwon; title: On the uselessness of new wars theory : lessons from African conflicts / Stephen Chan; title: Dilemmas of drawing war / Jill Gibbon; title: Pathways to experiencing war / Christine Sylvester.