Everyday War provides an accessible lens through which to understand what noncombatant civilians go through in a country at war. What goes through the mind of a mother who must send her child to school across a minefield or the men who belong to groups of volunteer body collectors? In Ukraine, such questions have been part of the daily calculus of life. Greta Uehling engages with the lives of ordinary people living in and around the armed conflict over Donbas that began in 2014 and shows how conventional understandings of war are incomplete. In Ukraine, landscapes filled with death and destruction prompted attentiveness to human vulnerabilities and the cultivation of everyday, interpersonal peace. Uehling explores a constellation of social practices where ethics of care were in operation. People were also drawn into the conflict in an everyday form of war that included provisioning fighters with military equipment they purchased themselves, smuggling insulin, and cutting ties to former friends. Each chapter considers a different site where care can produce interpersonal peace or its antipode, everyday war. Bridging the fields of political geography, international relations, peace and conflict studies, and anthropology, Everyday War considers where peace can be cultivated at an everyday level.
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Introduction: Everyday War 1. "Now We Have Funeral after Funeral": The Conflict over the Conflict in Donbas 2. Welcome to Café Patriot! Militarization and a Themed Café 3. Interpersonal Peace: The Micropolitics of Friendship 4. Home Fronts: Romantic Partnerships and Families during War 5. Boots, Gloves, and Tactical Kinship Intertext: "I Need a Peaceful Sky" 6. Praying to be Killed at Once: Ways of Coping with Military Violence 7. Everyday Sci-Fi and Practical Orientalism 8. The Volunteer Body Collectors of Ukraine: Outsourcing Undertaking and Smuggling Pediatric Insulin 9. Concluding Thoughts Intertext: "I Realize That Nothing Will Be the Same Again"
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The eloquent title Everyday War, stuns us with the "banality of evil" in the spirit of Hannah Arendt and, at the same time, helps us to look into the inner world of people for whom the presence of war, however paradoxically, has become commonplace.
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Greta Uehling sensitively, and with nuance, highlights the often-misunderstood early stages of the war in Ukraine and the toll it has taken on its people. In her exploration of the Ukrainian conflict and thoughtful consideration of contextually complex language and culture, she brings many universal struggles to light.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781501768484
Publisert
2023-02-15
Utgiver
Vendor
Cornell University Press
Vekt
454 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter

Biographical note

Greta Lynn Uehling is a lecturer at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Beyond Memory. Follow her on X @uehlingumiched1.