Experiencing War

TitleExperiencing War
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2011
AuthorsSylvester, Christine
Number of Pages136
PublisherRoutledge
CityLondon
Abstract

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 includes new 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.

URLhttps://www.routledge.com/Experiencing-War/Sylvester/p/book/9780415566315
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