This 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.
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