Kevin Mcsorley
Biographic Data
| ID | 185696 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Mcsorley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcsorley |
| SIGNATURE | MCSORLEY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Portsmouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5266-9310 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 107 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Discussing Empathy and Critique in the Ethnography of Things Military: A Conversation
Whenever we discuss fieldwork experiences with fellow anthropologists working on 'things military', concerns over ethics, politics, and critique pop up as a matter of course.Though important in any field, these matters seem particularly conspicous and insistent in the military field.Meanwhile, anthropology of the military is garnering increasing attention in response to a changing global security landscape.This motivated us to organize this speci…
Sensate regimes of war: Smell, tracing and violence
This article explores the fabrication of ‘sensate regimes of war’, concentrating on the typically under-analysed sense of smell. Smell is a sensory mode capable of apprehending potential threat and enmity in ways that are orthogonal to other ways of sensing. Accordingly, the organization and interpretation of olfactory sensation occupies a distinctive place in war. The article details a particular genealogy of martial olfaction, exploring the olf…
Predatory War, Drones and Torture: Remapping the Body in Pain
Elaine Scarry argues in The Body in Pain that war is a vast and reciprocal swearing on the body, with corporeality key not only to its brutal prosecution but also to the eventual ending of the political 'crisis of substantiation' that war entails. However, her work has not been extensively explored with reference to significant transformations in the embodied experiences of contemporary warfare. This article thus analyses a particular articulatio…
Doing military fitness: Physical Culture, Civilian Leisure, and Militarism
Drawing explicitly upon the bodily techniques of military basic training and the corporeal competencies of ex-military personnel, military-themed fitness classes and physical challenges have become an increasingly popular civilian leisure pursuit in the UK over the last two decades. This paper explores the embodied regimes, experiences, and interactions between civilians and ex-military personnel that occur in these emergent hybrid leisure spaces…
Towards an Embodied Sociology of War
While sociology has historically not been a good interlocutor of war, this paper argues that the body has always known war, and that it is to the corporeal that we can turn in an attempt to develop a language to better speak of its myriad violences and its socially generative force. It argues that war is a crucible of social change that is prosecuted, lived and reproduced via the occupation and transformation of myriad bodies in numerous ways fro…
War and the Body: Militarisation, Practice and Experience
1. War and the Body, Kevin McSorley Part I: Militarizing Bodies 2. Preparing and Resisting the War Body: Training in the British Army, Emma Reilly 3. Steeling the Body for War in Austrofascist Education, Tamara Ehs 4. Too fat to fight? Obesity, Bio-Politics and the Militarization of Children's Bodies, Joseph Burridge and Kevin McSorley 5. Military Chic: Fashioning Civilian Bodies for War, Jane Tynan Part II: Embodying War 6. On patrol: The Embodi…
War and the Body: Cultural and military practices
(2012). War and the Body: Cultural and military practices. Journal of War & Culture Studies: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 3-6
Helmetcams, militarized sensation and 'Somatic War
In stark contrast to the abstraction and radical disembodiment of hi-tech virtual war, the mediascape of contemporary counter-insurgency is increasingly dominated by material that is lo-fi, intimate, multi-sensory and decisively linked to the embodied experiences and risks of soldiering. In this article, I explore the visual grammar and affective logics of two recent prominent public mediations of the war in Afghanistan, both dominated by the use…
Monitoring and visualising of night time activity patterns of people with early dementia
It is estimated that around 820,000 people in the UK have dementia. Telecare and assistive technology (AT) can support people with dementia living at home
Telecare, telehealth and assistive technologies: Do we know what we're talking about
The development of telecare services in the UK has been supported by grants from the respective governments of Scotland and Wales, and by the Department of Health in England. New services are being established, sometimes to operate alongside existing community equipment services and community alarm services. Elsewhere they are embracing a wider range of services including rehabilitation, intermediate care and health services designed to reduce us…
The relationship between cardiovascular reactivity in the laboratory and heart rate response in real life: Active coping and beta blockade
Earlier studies suggest that cardiovascular responses in the laboratory and in the field are likely to be related when the laboratory tasks involve active coping, when the field measure is taken continuously, and when there is allowance for the effects of autocorrelation and physical activity on the ambulant cardiovascular measure. These studies lead to the hypothesis that the hyperreactivity common to the laboratory and to the field has a beta-a…
Doing military fitness: Physical Culture, Civilian Leisure, and Militarism
Drawing explicitly upon the bodily techniques of military basic training and the corporeal competencies of ex-military personnel, military-themed fitness classes and physical challenges have become an increasingly popular civilian leisure pursuit in the UK over the last two decades. This paper explores the embodied regimes, experiences, and interactions between civilians and ex-military personnel that occur in these emergent hybrid leisure spaces…
Towards an Embodied Sociology of War
While sociology has historically not been a good interlocutor of war, this paper argues that the body has always known war, and that it is to the corporeal that we can turn in an attempt to develop a language to better speak of its myriad violences and its socially generative force. It argues that war is a crucible of social change that is prosecuted, lived and reproduced via the occupation and transformation of myriad bodies in numerous ways fro…
Helmetcams, militarized sensation and 'Somatic War
In stark contrast to the abstraction and radical disembodiment of hi-tech virtual war, the mediascape of contemporary counter-insurgency is increasingly dominated by material that is lo-fi, intimate, multi-sensory and decisively linked to the embodied experiences and risks of soldiering. In this article, I explore the visual grammar and affective logics of two recent prominent public mediations of the war in Afghanistan, both dominated by the use…
Sensate regimes of war: Smell, tracing and violence
This article explores the fabrication of ‘sensate regimes of war’, concentrating on the typically under-analysed sense of smell. Smell is a sensory mode capable of apprehending potential threat and enmity in ways that are orthogonal to other ways of sensing. Accordingly, the organization and interpretation of olfactory sensation occupies a distinctive place in war. The article details a particular genealogy of martial olfaction, exploring the olf…
Predatory War, Drones and Torture: Remapping the Body in Pain
Elaine Scarry argues in The Body in Pain that war is a vast and reciprocal swearing on the body, with corporeality key not only to its brutal prosecution but also to the eventual ending of the political 'crisis of substantiation' that war entails. However, her work has not been extensively explored with reference to significant transformations in the embodied experiences of contemporary warfare. This article thus analyses a particular articulatio…
War and the Body: Cultural and military practices
(2012). War and the Body: Cultural and military practices. Journal of War & Culture Studies: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 3-6
The relationship between cardiovascular reactivity in the laboratory and heart rate response in real life: Active coping and beta blockade
Earlier studies suggest that cardiovascular responses in the laboratory and in the field are likely to be related when the laboratory tasks involve active coping, when the field measure is taken continuously, and when there is allowance for the effects of autocorrelation and physical activity on the ambulant cardiovascular measure. These studies lead to the hypothesis that the hyperreactivity common to the laboratory and to the field has a beta-a…
Telecare, telehealth and assistive technologies: Do we know what we're talking about
The development of telecare services in the UK has been supported by grants from the respective governments of Scotland and Wales, and by the Department of Health in England. New services are being established, sometimes to operate alongside existing community equipment services and community alarm services. Elsewhere they are embracing a wider range of services including rehabilitation, intermediate care and health services designed to reduce us…
Monitoring and visualising of night time activity patterns of people with early dementia
It is estimated that around 820,000 people in the UK have dementia. Telecare and assistive technology (AT) can support people with dementia living at home
War and the Body: Cultural and military practices
(2012). War and the Body: Cultural and military practices. Journal of War & Culture Studies: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 3-6
Helmetcams, militarized sensation and 'Somatic War
In stark contrast to the abstraction and radical disembodiment of hi-tech virtual war, the mediascape of contemporary counter-insurgency is increasingly dominated by material that is lo-fi, intimate, multi-sensory and decisively linked to the embodied experiences and risks of soldiering. In this article, I explore the visual grammar and affective logics of two recent prominent public mediations of the war in Afghanistan, both dominated by the use…
War and the Body: Militarisation, Practice and Experience
1. War and the Body, Kevin McSorley Part I: Militarizing Bodies 2. Preparing and Resisting the War Body: Training in the British Army, Emma Reilly 3. Steeling the Body for War in Austrofascist Education, Tamara Ehs 4. Too fat to fight? Obesity, Bio-Politics and the Militarization of Children's Bodies, Joseph Burridge and Kevin McSorley 5. Military Chic: Fashioning Civilian Bodies for War, Jane Tynan Part II: Embodying War 6. On patrol: The Embodi…
Towards an Embodied Sociology of War
While sociology has historically not been a good interlocutor of war, this paper argues that the body has always known war, and that it is to the corporeal that we can turn in an attempt to develop a language to better speak of its myriad violences and its socially generative force. It argues that war is a crucible of social change that is prosecuted, lived and reproduced via the occupation and transformation of myriad bodies in numerous ways fro…
Doing military fitness: Physical Culture, Civilian Leisure, and Militarism
Drawing explicitly upon the bodily techniques of military basic training and the corporeal competencies of ex-military personnel, military-themed fitness classes and physical challenges have become an increasingly popular civilian leisure pursuit in the UK over the last two decades. This paper explores the embodied regimes, experiences, and interactions between civilians and ex-military personnel that occur in these emergent hybrid leisure spaces…
Predatory War, Drones and Torture: Remapping the Body in Pain
Elaine Scarry argues in The Body in Pain that war is a vast and reciprocal swearing on the body, with corporeality key not only to its brutal prosecution but also to the eventual ending of the political 'crisis of substantiation' that war entails. However, her work has not been extensively explored with reference to significant transformations in the embodied experiences of contemporary warfare. This article thus analyses a particular articulatio…
Sensate regimes of war: Smell, tracing and violence
This article explores the fabrication of ‘sensate regimes of war’, concentrating on the typically under-analysed sense of smell. Smell is a sensory mode capable of apprehending potential threat and enmity in ways that are orthogonal to other ways of sensing. Accordingly, the organization and interpretation of olfactory sensation occupies a distinctive place in war. The article details a particular genealogy of martial olfaction, exploring the olf…
Discussing Empathy and Critique in the Ethnography of Things Military: A Conversation
Whenever we discuss fieldwork experiences with fellow anthropologists working on 'things military', concerns over ethics, politics, and critique pop up as a matter of course.Though important in any field, these matters seem particularly conspicous and insistent in the military field.Meanwhile, anthropology of the military is garnering increasing attention in response to a changing global security landscape.This motivated us to organize this speci…
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