6 Jun 2024 | 09:00 - 17:00 | S3, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP |
- Description
Description
An event by the Military Surplus: Toxicity, Industry and War research network.
The workshop is invitation-only. However, interested PhDs, ECRs, Postdocs, or visiting scholars should email zdi20@cam.ac.uk if they would like to join.
The workshop will provide PhDs, Postdocs and ECRs with space to discuss their projects, receive feedback, discuss conceptual approaches and methodologies, resolve dissertation/manuscript stumbling blocks, and network with scholars pursuing similar research themes and topics.
The workshop hopes to tackle a range of issues encountered within the field of (post)conflict, war, and military studies, including:
- Definitions and concepts of militarisation vs militarism(s). What needs reworking/reconsidering?
- How to include multispecies perspectives and more-than-human actors
- Storying the (global) history of the military-industrial complex
- Diversifying studies of war and conflict. How to best incorporate research from the Global South/regions considered marginal or peripheral
- Activist perspectives, demilitarisation/anti-militarism, and the need for critical military studies
- Citational ethics and practices
- Emerging frameworks (e.g. posthumanist critiques, feminist military studies, and interdisciplinary studies of war)
- How to best engage with memory and affect in (post)conflict zones
- Fieldwork challenges, difficulties and tensions in war-zones
- Apprehending the immaterial, molecular, and residual
Participants must circulate a draft of the work they’d like to workshop by the end of May.
For enquiries please contact the Research Networks Programme Manager.