War, wounding and intimacies

Shaw, Philip, Furneaux, Holly ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5104-1975 and Wilson-Scott, Joanna 2020. War, wounding and intimacies. Critical Military Studies 6 (2) , pp. 115-117. 10.1080/23337486.2020.1759315

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Abstract

In war and its aftermath, new relationships are forged through acts of wounding and caring for the wounded and for the dead. This special issue focusses on the injured and injuring body as the site at which emerge constellations of hostility and intimacy between, variously, combatants, other military and medical personnel, and civilians. The articles consider unexpected, previously undiscussed war intimacies across several major conflicts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Europe and America. They draw upon a range of materials with an emphasis on visual and material culture, including photographs, sketches, objects, and private and public forms of commemoration, as well as on published and institutional records and on personal documents – letters, diaries, marginalia and annotations. As the following contributions show, in war and post-wartime daily encounters, key relationships and acts of care often shift from the domestic and local, as day-to-day interactions and treatment of the body, alive and dead, take place between those with no prior connection. This is the case for the American Civil War soldier, examined and treated by staff of the Army Medical department rather than by the local doctor and family, for soldiers undertaking rehabilitative training in British hospitals during and after the First World War, and for the dead soldier of the First and Second World Wars, whose corpse, when identifiable, became a signifier of the state’s care for its military instead of being subject to family and local traditions.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
ISSN:	2333-7486
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	12 February 2025
Last Modified:	12 Feb 2025 14:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/176055

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