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<p>This edited collection explores aspects of contemporary war that affect average people —physically, emotionally, and ethically through activities ranging from combat to television viewing.</p> <p>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 the

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Author

Christine Sylvester (editor)

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781136888496

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Sociology, History