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Book SynopsisWhat 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.
Table of ContentsPreface
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 Spoken Word on Combat
Susanna Hast
Part III
Chapter 9. ‘Last Op’: War, Trauma, and the Legacy of Bomber Command
Alexander Thomas T. Smith
Chapter10. Stories Outside the Wire
Rebecca Steel
Chapter 11. Autoethnographic Creativity: Re-Remembering Military Service
Hannah West
Chapter 12. Bald Men Sharing a Comb: War Veteran Subjectivity in the Documentary Play Minefield
David Jackson
Bibliography
About the Authors
