This is an anthropological look at the Turkish territory of Northern Cyprus, a self-defined state, which is actually imaginary (because it is only recognized by Turkey). Navaro-Yashin surveys the affective landscape, examining the sense of haunted property and objects lost and g…
The Oxford handbook of military psychology
Emotions, politics and war
by Åhäll, Linda, Gregory, Thomas
fromInterventions (Routledge (Firm))
Providing a range of perspectives from a diversity of methodological approaches on the conditions, maintenance and interpretation of emotions, the contributors interrogate the multiple ways in which emotions function and matter to the study of global politics.
What does modern warfare have in common with our human evolution? In this study, Dr Kenneth Payne argues that there is an important relationship between the two - we have evolved to fight, and traditional hunter-gatherer societies were often violent places. But we also evolved t…
What does modern warfare have in common with our human evolution? In this study, Dr Kenneth Payne argues that there is an important relationship between the two ₆ we have evolved to fight, and traditional hunter-gatherer societies were often violent places. But we also evolved t…
Modern conflict and the senses: killer instincts?
"Modern Conflict and the Senses investigates the sensual worlds created by modern war, focusing on the sensorial responses embodied in and provoked by the materiality of conflict and its aftermath. The volume positions the industrialized nature of twentieth-century war as a uniq…
Nationalism and war
The relationship between nationalism and warfare is complex, and dependent on the historical period and geographical context in question. 'Nationalism and War' brings together some of the world's leading social scientists and historians, to examine the nature of this relationshi…
"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, di…