Creative Methods in Military Studies (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Cree, Alice

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What can creative methods offer our understanding of military power and militarised cultures? What constitutes 'creative research' in military studies? And, what are some of the challenges of this type of work? This edited volume brings together authors working at the cutting edge of creative research in military studies, to explore how creativity and creative practice can shed new light on often taken for granted concepts in critical military research. In twelve empirically and conceptually rich chapters, authors from a diverse range of disciplinary fields draw on theatre, model-making, songwriting, dance, spoken word, paper making, and more, to question what military research can and should look like. As a collection, the book explores topics of central concern in military studies such as militarism, military experience, and militarised cultures, as well as more practical questions around ethics, positionality, and research relationships. This path-breaking new volume considers what exactly constitutes creativity in critical military research, while offering the tools for researchers to think anew about big questions in the field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538160985
• Artikelnr.: 67973660

Autorenporträt

Alice Cree is a NUAcT Fellow at Newcastle University, UK. Her research expertise lies at the intersection between Critical Military Studies and Feminist Geopolitics, with a particular focus on creative methods in military research. She is principle investigator on the Economic and Social Research Council funded project 'Conflict, Intimacy, and Military Wives: A Lively Geopolitics', and has published work in International Political Sociology, Gender, Place & Culture, and the Journal of War and Culture Studies, among others.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Alice Cree
Part I
Chapter 1. Turning RAF Fylingdales Inside Out: Using Creative Practice to
Understand Ballistic Missile Early Warning and Space Monitoring
Rachel Woodward, Chloë Barker, K. Neil Jenkings, and Michael Mulvihill
Chapter 2. Visualizing Drone Ethnography in the Shadows of Distributive War
Sara Matthews
Chapter 3. Notating War, Choreographing Soldiers: Dance Methods as Military
Stratagem
Charlotte Veal
Chapter 4. All Things Bright and Beautiful the Lord Bomb Made Them All:
More than Human Creativity and the Cyborg Geology of Nuclear Weapon Design
Michael Mulvihill
Part II
Chapter 5. "These Uniforms Have Been Places." From Combat to Paper to
Exchange: A CMS Research Encounter
Laura Mills
Chapter 6. Modelling Military Landscapes: Archival Encounters,
Model-Making, and Camouflage Practice
James P. Robinson
Chapter 7. Theatre of War: Critical Feminist Research Praxis in Creative
Military Research
Alice Cree and Hannah West
Chapter 8. Making Sp