Modern conflict and the senses / edited by Nicholas J. Saunders and Paul Cornish.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Saunders, Nicholas J., editor.

Cornish, Paul, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military history, Modern--20th century.

Military history, Modern.

War--Psychological aspects--History--20th century.

War.

Senses and sensation--Social aspects--History--20th century.

Senses and sensation.

War and society--History--20th century.

War and society.

Sociology, Military--History--20th century.

Sociology, Military.

History.

Senses and sensation--Social aspects.

War--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 391 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Summary:

"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 unique cultural phenomenon, in possession of a material and psychological intensity that embodies the extremes of human behaviour, from total economic mobilization to the unbearable sadness of individual loss. Adopting a coherent and integrated hybrid approach to the complexities of modern conflict, the book considers issues of memory, identity, and emotion through wartime experiences of tangible sensations and bodily requirements. This comprehensive and interdisciplinary collection draws upon archaeology, anthropology, military and cultural history, art history, cultural geography, and museum and heritage studies in order to revitalize our understandings of the role of the senses in conflict"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / David Howes

Introduction / Paul Cornish, Nicholas J. Saunders, Mark Smith

Part 1. Sensual landscapes

Sensing war : concept and space in the Imperial War Museum's First World War galleries / Paul Cornish

Materiality, space, and distance in the First World War / Nicholas J. Saunders

Assaulting the senses : life and landscape beneath the Western Front / Matthew Leonard

The scent of snow at Punta Linke : First World War sites as sensecapes, Trentino, Italy / Franco Nicolis

Sensorial engagement in tourism experiences on the Western Front / Stephen Miles

"Dead air" : the acoustic of war and peace : creative interpretations of the sounds of conflict and remembrance / Paul Gough and Katie Davies

Moaning minnie and the doodlebugs : soundscapes of air warfare in Second World War Britain / Gabriel Moshenska

The cave mouth : listening to sound and voice in Okinawan war memory / Rupert Cox and Angus Carlyle

Emplacing the Italian resistance : the dystopian fight against Fascism and Nazism (1943-1945) / Sarah De Nardi

Part 2. Sensing bodies

Odour and ethnicity : Americans and Japanese in the Second World War / Susannah Callow

Ingestion and digestion on the Western Front / Rachel Duffett

Trench crap : excremental aspects of the First World War / Dominiek Dendooven

Sense and sensibility : the power of print in post-war recuperation / Jeffrey S. Reznick

The "white death" : thirst and water in the Chaco War / Esther Breithoff

Jan Karski : from eye witness to moral witness : what to do with your senses / Annette Becker

The sensory signature of being an airman in a Second World War Lancaster bomber / Melanie Winterton

Sounds of horror : sensorial experiences of a Gestapo prison, Begunje (Slovenia) / Uro�s Ko�sir

The uninvited guests who outstayed their welcome : the ghosts of war in the Channel Islands / Gilly Carr

Sensory deprivation during the Irish Civil War (1923-1924) : female political prisoners at Kilmainhan Gaol, Dublin / Laura McAtackney

Part 3. Sensorial objects

Sensing the Sepoy : objects, letters and songs of Indian soldiers, 1914-1918 / Santanu Das

War with flowers : the paintings of albert heim and the german sensory experience of the Somme, 1914-1916 / Alastair H. Fraser

The senses : battlefield exploration, drawing and sculpture / Steve Hurst

War, memory and the senses in the Imperial War Museum London, 1920-2014 / Alys Cundy

Afterword / Joanna Bourke.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138927827

1138927821

OCLC:

974988917

Publisher Number:

99972632789