Description
Explores the ambiguities and contradictions that disrupt the assumed boundaries of battle zones
Against the fabric of suffering that unfolds around more spectacular injuries and deaths, The War In-Between studies visual depictions of banal, routine, or inscrutable aspects of militarized violence. Spaces of the in-between are both broader and much less visible than battlefields, even though struggles for survival arise out of the same conditions of structural violence. Visual artifacts including photographs, video, data visualizations, fabric art, and craft projects provide different vantage points on the quotidian impacts of militarism, whether it is the banality of everyday violence for non-combatants or the daily struggles of soldiers living with physical and emotional trauma.
Three interrelated concepts frame the book's attempt to stay in the moment of looking at visual cultures of survival. First, the concept of the war in-between captures those interstit
