Creative Methods in Military Studies (Creative Interventions in Global Politics)

Creative Methods in Military Studies (Creative Interventions in Global Politics)
by: Cree (Author),Alice(Author)
Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publication Date: 1 Jun. 2023
Language:English
Print Length:277 pages
ISBN-10:1538160978
ISBN-13:9781538160978
Book Description
This edited collection explores how creativity and creative practice can enhance research in military studies, and shed new light on military power and militarised cultures.
About the Author
Review A refreshing and necessary way of thinking about critical military research. Creative Methods in Military Studies highlights the impressive variety of creative work in our field and offers plenty of inspiration for scholars looking to tread a new methodological path.This book makes me excited for the future of Critical Military Studies as a field of enquiry. The varied methodological explorations in each chapter are fascinating to read about in and of themselves; written, as they clearly are, by researchers with a real thoughtfulness and passion for the approach they have cultivated. More than that, however, the book is filled with the promise of reimaging what and how we can know about military power – of opening up spaces to know militaries and militarism in different, and perhaps more powerful, ways.This book’s timely and nuanced set of contributions reveal not only the value of creative approaches in military studies but also chart how creativity, in various forms, is (already) bound with and to projects of military power and violence.What can art, creativity, and collaboration reveal about military power? This pioneering interdisciplinary collection takes the reader on a journey that explores the often-hidden creativity within military practices and histories, and a range of creative methods that help us generate new knowledge and reflect on who we are as people, artists, and researchers. A fascinating, provocative, and exciting intervention. About the Author Alice Cree is a research fellow in Critical Military Studies at Newcastle University. Her research expertise is in gender and the military, with a particular focus on the use of theatre-as-method in military studies. Her work has been published in Gender, Place & Culture, Journal of War & Culture Studies, International Political Sociology, and in the agenda setting volume A Research Agenda for Military Geographies (Edward Elgar).