The Ethnography of Things Military: Empathy and Critique in Military Anthropology
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The Ethnography of Things Military : Empathy and Critique in Military Anthropology. / Mohr, Sebastian; Sørensen, Birgitte Refslund; Weisdorf, Matti.
I: Ethnos - Journal of Anthropology, Bind 86, Nr. 4, 2021, s. 600-615.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - The Ethnography of Things Military
T2 - Empathy and Critique in Military Anthropology
AU - Mohr, Sebastian
AU - Sørensen, Birgitte Refslund
AU - Weisdorf, Matti
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Reflecting on the troubled relationship between anthropology and the military, we do so by discussing the underlying epistemological, methodological, and moral claims of the distinction between an anthropology of and an anthropology for the military. Through the term ethnography of things military, we propose to reposition military anthropology as intense engagements with militarisation through empathic immersion in things military. We develop this term through feminist critiques of militarisation and compassion, through discussions of critique and empathy as part of (critical) ethnographic scholarship, and through anthropological debates about the relationality of fieldwork and ethnographer-interlocutor relations. Suggesting that an ethnography of things military relies on empathic engagements with military lifeworlds, we argue that the relationship between empathy and critique in military anthropology should be understood as a continuous collaborative (and not always predictable) process of interrogating military lifeworlds’ frames of reference without necessarily sharing compassion or sympathy for them.
AB - Reflecting on the troubled relationship between anthropology and the military, we do so by discussing the underlying epistemological, methodological, and moral claims of the distinction between an anthropology of and an anthropology for the military. Through the term ethnography of things military, we propose to reposition military anthropology as intense engagements with militarisation through empathic immersion in things military. We develop this term through feminist critiques of militarisation and compassion, through discussions of critique and empathy as part of (critical) ethnographic scholarship, and through anthropological debates about the relationality of fieldwork and ethnographer-interlocutor relations. Suggesting that an ethnography of things military relies on empathic engagements with military lifeworlds, we argue that the relationship between empathy and critique in military anthropology should be understood as a continuous collaborative (and not always predictable) process of interrogating military lifeworlds’ frames of reference without necessarily sharing compassion or sympathy for them.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - ethics
KW - military anthropology
KW - militarisation
KW - fieldwork
KW - sympathy
U2 - 10.1080/00141844.2019.1687553
DO - 10.1080/00141844.2019.1687553
M3 - Journal article
VL - 86
SP - 600
EP - 615
JO - Ethnos
JF - Ethnos
SN - 0014-1844
IS - 4
ER -
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