Victoria M Basham
Biographic Data
| ID | 312763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victoria M Basham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victoria M |
| FAMILY NAME | Basham |
| SIGNATURE | BASHAM V M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8829-5119 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 379 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Prefiguring truth: The limits of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry
Public inquiries operate as privileged instruments of sense‐making, defined by a series of epistemological and methodological commitments. The Grenfell Tower Inquiry was established to uncover the truth of the fire in which seventy‐two people died. This article interrogates the truth‐seeking and truth‐producing practices of the Inquiry. These shape the contours of the account of the fire that it has produced, predisposing it to particular forms o…
Dysfunctional governance: Crisis, scandal, tragedy, emergency
Our current age is commonly and widely understood as being beset by poly or pluri-crises. This means that terms such as crisis, scandal, tragedy and emergency—terms that were once understood as applying to exceptional circumstances—have become associated with normality. At the same time, questions have arisen about the ability of governments and practices of governance, to deal with the intertwining nature, volume and complexity posed by contempo…
Death and denial in the city: Making sense of London Bridge and Grenfell
In the wake of violent events comes a rush to make sense of what happened. Sensemaking matters because it bounds political possibilities, producing knowledge about what caused the violence, who is accountable, and whether society should change to prevent a recurrence. This paper explores sensemaking through an intertextual discourse analysis of elite, print, and social media responses to two violent events in the global city of London in June 201…
Beyond being and becoming? The potential of intergenerational and intragenerational solidarity
Beyond the state: Reimagining Protection as Constellations of Care
Protection is traditionally conceptualised in relation to the state. Not only does the state provide protection externally, i.e. vis-à-vis other states in an assumed anarchical system, but also internally through various instruments of care. Such protection however relies on the social contract and is thus inherently transactional. Protection, and associated care, then becomes something earned, something one is entitled to by virtue of certain, p…
Mr Rules: Keir Starmer and the juridification of politics
Keir Starmer’s moniker of ‘Mr Rules’ captures his deep investment in a rules-based form of politics that seeks to uphold established standards of probity and competency in public office. Rather than a mere tactic of opposition politics, we argue that it is symptomatic of the juridification of politics. By this we mean the ceding of the terrain of politics to the seemingly superior and separate domains of law and administration. Drawing upon and e…
Everyday modalities of militarization: Beyond Unidirectional, State-Centric, and Simplistic Accounts of State Violence
Critiques of militarization have deftly highlighted its limitations as a concept, not least because it too easily implies something done to otherwise benign and peaceful societies by militaries. The guest editors of this special issue however are inviting scholars to rethink militarization through the notion of everyday modalities. This more sociological approach, I argue, enables us to consider how militarization simultaneously produces and is p…
Military social harm: An agenda for research
This article presents a critical framework for understanding the harms produced by military institutions. Assessments of military harms are undertaken across the sociological study of the military, ranging from public-facing military issues to more inwardly directed research conducted by entities with vested state interests. Building upon and advancing the available scholarship, we introduce the concept of 'military social harm', drawing on crimi…
Ordering disorder: The making of world politics
This article offers insights into the character and composition of world order. It does so by focusing on how world order is made and revealed through seemingly disorderly events. We examine how societies struggle to interpret and respond to disorderly events through three modes of treatment: tragedy, crisis, and scandal. These, we argue, are the dominant modes of treatment in world politics, through which an account of disorder is articulated an…
Living in dangerous times
There is a time for everything,and a season for every activity under the heavens:a time to be born and a time to die,a time to plant and a time to uproot,a time to kill and a time to heal,a time to
The gendered politics of researching military policy in the age of the ‘knowledge economy’
This article explores our experiences of conducting feminist interpretive research on the British Army Reserves. The project, which examined the everyday work-Army-life balance challenges that reservists face, and the roles of their partners/spouses in enabling them to fulfil their military commitments, is an example of a potential contribution to the so-called ‘knowledge economy’, where publicly funded research has come to be seen as ‘functional…
A necessarily historical materialist moment? Feminist reflections on the need for grounded critique in an age of crises
Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis reminds us how particular moments and events, albeit ones produced by systemic and reiterative processes, warrant serious reflection by scholars seeking to highlight and challenge modes of oppression and inequality. In drawing attention to the ‘violence of abstraction’ the book creates space for reconsidering how we move beyond modes of critique that focus primarily on principles, to those more rooted …
Reproducing the military and heteropatriarchal normal: Army Reserve service as serious leisure
The notions that military violence engenders security and that military service is a selfless and necessary act are orthodoxies in political, military and scholarly debate. The UK Army Reserve’s recent expansion prompts reconsideration of this orthodoxy, particularly in relation to the suggestion that reservists serve selflessly. Drawing on fieldwork with British Army reservists and their spouses/partners, we examine how this orthodoxy allows res…
War is where the hearth is: Gendered labor and the everyday reproduction of the geopolitical in the army reserves
The feminized imaginary of “home and hearth” has long been central to the notion of soldiering as masculinist protection. Soldiering and war are not only materialized by gendered imaginaries of home and hearth though, but through everyday labors enacted within the home. Focusing on in-depth qualitative research with women partners and spouses of British Army reservists, we examine how women’s everyday domestic and emotional labor enables reservis…
Liberal militarism as insecurity, desire and ambivalence: Gender, race and the everyday geopolitics of war
The use and maintenance of military force as a means of achieving security makes the identity and continued existence of states as legitimate protectors of populations intelligible. In liberal democracies, however, where individual freedom is the condition of existence, citizens have to be motivated to cede some of that freedom in exchange for security. Accordingly, liberal militarism becomes possible only when military action and preparedness be…
Encounters with the Military: Toward a Feminist Ethics of Critique
This conversation developed from a panel titled “Interrogating the Militarized Masculine: Reflections on Research, Ethics and Access” held at the May 2013 International Feminist Journal of Politics conference at the University of Sussex, UK
Raising an Army: The Geopolitics of Militarizing the Lives of Working-Class Boys in an Age of Austerity
This article examines the political and social impact of elevating military values in society in a context of austerity. Centering on discussions around two British government “military ethos” initiatives, I consider the idea that military service instills desirable qualities and values in military personnel, making them well suited to educating and socializing children, to the advantage of both children and society. Arguing that these schemes pr…
Gender, race, militarism and remembrance: The everyday geopolitics of the poppy
This article offers a feminist analysis of how British military violence and war are, in part, made possible through everyday embodied and emotional practices of remembrance and forgetting. Focusing on recent iterations of the Royal British Legion’s Annual Poppy Appeal, I explore how the emotionality, and gendered and racial politics of collective mourning provide opportunities for the emergence of ‘communities of feeling’, through which differen…
Telling geopolitical tales: Temporality, rationality, and the 'childish' in the ongoing war for the Falklands-Malvinas Islands
Anniversaries of war often present opportunities for the telling and retelling of tales about the geopolitical; tales of a nation’s sovereignty, its identity, its security, and how these are imagined and reimagined through the notion of specific conflicts, their histories, beginnings, ends, and aftermaths. By examining the case of the ongoing ‘war’ over the Falklands-Malvinas and a particular set of stories where the ‘childish’ has come to charac…
What is Critical Military Studies
e p t e d fo r p u blic a tio n.Cit a tio n fo r fin al p u blis h e d ve r sio n:B a s h a m , Victo ri a , B elki n, Aa r o n a n d Gifkin s, Je s s 2 0 1 5. W h a t is c ritic al m ilit a ry s t u di e s ?C ri tic al Milit a ry S t u di e s 1 (1) , p p .1-2. 1 0 . 1 0 8 0/ 2 3 3 3 7 4 8 6. 2 0 1 5. 1 0 0 6 8 7 9 P u blis h e r s p a g e : h t t p:// dx.d oi.o r g/ 1 0. 1 0 8 0/ 2 3 3 3 7 4 8 6. 2 0 1 5
Sjoberg, Laura, Gendering Global Conflict: Toward a Feminist Theory of War
Laura Sjoberg's latest contribution to enhancing our understanding of the theory and practice of war, as both profoundly gendered and gendering, is an invitation to learn far more about the “war pu
War, Identity and the Liberal State: Everyday Experiences of the Geopolitical in the Armed Forces
This book critically examines the significance of gender, race and sexuality to wars waged by liberal states. Drawing on original field-research with British soldiers, it offers insights into how their everyday experiences are shaped by, and shape, a politics of gender, race and sexuality that not only underpins power relations in the military, but the geopolitics of wars waged by liberal states. Linking the politics of daily life to the internat…
Introduction: Traces of Conflict
The importance of the trace in relation to public memory and historical remembrance was highlighted in Pierre Nora's seminal work on French cultural, political, and historical memory, Les Lieux de
Gender, Race and Border Security Practices: A Profane Reading of ‘Muscular Liberalism’
In recent years the concept of the border has been reconceptualised: borders are no longer viewed primarily as static lines at the outer edge of the state, but increasingly as mobile, bio-political and virtual apparatuses of control. While such a reconceptualisation resonates with western border security practices, however, it is vulnerable to the critique that such a totalising vision of sovereign space does not take into account the varied resp…
Harnessing Social Diversity in the British Armed Forces: The Limitations of ‘Management’ Approaches
This article explores how the British Ministry of Defence's aim to accommodate and harness a demographically diverse workforce is undermined by the ways it seeks to manage this change. By focusing on policy discourses identified as the ‘diversity blind’ and the ‘management imperative’ approaches, and on insights from research with British military personnel, the article demonstrates how policy discourses can expose individuals to harassment and u…
Gender, race, militarism and remembrance: The everyday geopolitics of the poppy
This article offers a feminist analysis of how British military violence and war are, in part, made possible through everyday embodied and emotional practices of remembrance and forgetting. Focusing on recent iterations of the Royal British Legion’s Annual Poppy Appeal, I explore how the emotionality, and gendered and racial politics of collective mourning provide opportunities for the emergence of ‘communities of feeling’, through which differen…
What is Critical Military Studies
e p t e d fo r p u blic a tio n.Cit a tio n fo r fin al p u blis h e d ve r sio n:B a s h a m , Victo ri a , B elki n, Aa r o n a n d Gifkin s, Je s s 2 0 1 5. W h a t is c ritic al m ilit a ry s t u di e s ?C ri tic al Milit a ry S t u di e s 1 (1) , p p .1-2. 1 0 . 1 0 8 0/ 2 3 3 3 7 4 8 6. 2 0 1 5. 1 0 0 6 8 7 9 P u blis h e r s p a g e : h t t p:// dx.d oi.o r g/ 1 0. 1 0 8 0/ 2 3 3 3 7 4 8 6. 2 0 1 5
Liberal militarism as insecurity, desire and ambivalence: Gender, race and the everyday geopolitics of war
The use and maintenance of military force as a means of achieving security makes the identity and continued existence of states as legitimate protectors of populations intelligible. In liberal democracies, however, where individual freedom is the condition of existence, citizens have to be motivated to cede some of that freedom in exchange for security. Accordingly, liberal militarism becomes possible only when military action and preparedness be…
War is where the hearth is: Gendered labor and the everyday reproduction of the geopolitical in the army reserves
The feminized imaginary of “home and hearth” has long been central to the notion of soldiering as masculinist protection. Soldiering and war are not only materialized by gendered imaginaries of home and hearth though, but through everyday labors enacted within the home. Focusing on in-depth qualitative research with women partners and spouses of British Army reservists, we examine how women’s everyday domestic and emotional labor enables reservis…
Encounters with the Military: Toward a Feminist Ethics of Critique
This conversation developed from a panel titled “Interrogating the Militarized Masculine: Reflections on Research, Ethics and Access” held at the May 2013 International Feminist Journal of Politics conference at the University of Sussex, UK
Gender, Race and Border Security Practices: A Profane Reading of ‘Muscular Liberalism’
In recent years the concept of the border has been reconceptualised: borders are no longer viewed primarily as static lines at the outer edge of the state, but increasingly as mobile, bio-political and virtual apparatuses of control. While such a reconceptualisation resonates with western border security practices, however, it is vulnerable to the critique that such a totalising vision of sovereign space does not take into account the varied resp…
Raising an Army: The Geopolitics of Militarizing the Lives of Working-Class Boys in an Age of Austerity
This article examines the political and social impact of elevating military values in society in a context of austerity. Centering on discussions around two British government “military ethos” initiatives, I consider the idea that military service instills desirable qualities and values in military personnel, making them well suited to educating and socializing children, to the advantage of both children and society. Arguing that these schemes pr…
Effecting Discrimination: Operational Effectiveness and Harassment in the British Armed Forces
In recent years, the British military has introduced a number of policies aimed at recruiting and sustaining demographically diverse armed forces. Central to these is a 'zero-tolerance' approach to discrimination and harassment. However, by undertaking an 'effective' reading of policies aimed at managing sexual orientation and gender diversity, and by drawing on qualitative research with members of the British forces, this article demonstrates ho…
Everyday modalities of militarization: Beyond Unidirectional, State-Centric, and Simplistic Accounts of State Violence
Critiques of militarization have deftly highlighted its limitations as a concept, not least because it too easily implies something done to otherwise benign and peaceful societies by militaries. The guest editors of this special issue however are inviting scholars to rethink militarization through the notion of everyday modalities. This more sociological approach, I argue, enables us to consider how militarization simultaneously produces and is p…
The gendered politics of researching military policy in the age of the ‘knowledge economy’
This article explores our experiences of conducting feminist interpretive research on the British Army Reserves. The project, which examined the everyday work-Army-life balance challenges that reservists face, and the roles of their partners/spouses in enabling them to fulfil their military commitments, is an example of a potential contribution to the so-called ‘knowledge economy’, where publicly funded research has come to be seen as ‘functional…
Ordering disorder: The making of world politics
This article offers insights into the character and composition of world order. It does so by focusing on how world order is made and revealed through seemingly disorderly events. We examine how societies struggle to interpret and respond to disorderly events through three modes of treatment: tragedy, crisis, and scandal. These, we argue, are the dominant modes of treatment in world politics, through which an account of disorder is articulated an…
Reproducing the military and heteropatriarchal normal: Army Reserve service as serious leisure
The notions that military violence engenders security and that military service is a selfless and necessary act are orthodoxies in political, military and scholarly debate. The UK Army Reserve’s recent expansion prompts reconsideration of this orthodoxy, particularly in relation to the suggestion that reservists serve selflessly. Drawing on fieldwork with British Army reservists and their spouses/partners, we examine how this orthodoxy allows res…
Mr Rules: Keir Starmer and the juridification of politics
Keir Starmer’s moniker of ‘Mr Rules’ captures his deep investment in a rules-based form of politics that seeks to uphold established standards of probity and competency in public office. Rather than a mere tactic of opposition politics, we argue that it is symptomatic of the juridification of politics. By this we mean the ceding of the terrain of politics to the seemingly superior and separate domains of law and administration. Drawing upon and e…
Telling geopolitical tales: Temporality, rationality, and the 'childish' in the ongoing war for the Falklands-Malvinas Islands
Anniversaries of war often present opportunities for the telling and retelling of tales about the geopolitical; tales of a nation’s sovereignty, its identity, its security, and how these are imagined and reimagined through the notion of specific conflicts, their histories, beginnings, ends, and aftermaths. By examining the case of the ongoing ‘war’ over the Falklands-Malvinas and a particular set of stories where the ‘childish’ has come to charac…
Harnessing Social Diversity in the British Armed Forces: The Limitations of ‘Management’ Approaches
This article explores how the British Ministry of Defence's aim to accommodate and harness a demographically diverse workforce is undermined by the ways it seeks to manage this change. By focusing on policy discourses identified as the ‘diversity blind’ and the ‘management imperative’ approaches, and on insights from research with British military personnel, the article demonstrates how policy discourses can expose individuals to harassment and u…
Military social harm: An agenda for research
This article presents a critical framework for understanding the harms produced by military institutions. Assessments of military harms are undertaken across the sociological study of the military, ranging from public-facing military issues to more inwardly directed research conducted by entities with vested state interests. Building upon and advancing the available scholarship, we introduce the concept of 'military social harm', drawing on crimi…
Everyday Gendered Experiences and the Discursive Construction of Civilian and Military Identities in Britain
Though the idea of a civil-military gap has long been privileged by military officials and many scholars of armed forces, dividing ‘civilian’ from ‘military’ has important implications for the negotiation of identities within the armed forces. By drawing on research with members of the British military on social diversity in their organisation, this paper examines how hegemonic military masculinities are reinforced by the division of military and…
Everyday Gendered Experiences and the Discursive Construction of Civilian and Military Identities in Britain
Though the idea of a civil-military gap has long been privileged by military officials and many scholars of armed forces, dividing ‘civilian’ from ‘military’ has important implications for the negotiation of identities within the armed forces. By drawing on research with members of the British military on social diversity in their organisation, this paper examines how hegemonic military masculinities are reinforced by the division of military and…
Harnessing Social Diversity in the British Armed Forces: The Limitations of ‘Management’ Approaches
This article explores how the British Ministry of Defence's aim to accommodate and harness a demographically diverse workforce is undermined by the ways it seeks to manage this change. By focusing on policy discourses identified as the ‘diversity blind’ and the ‘management imperative’ approaches, and on insights from research with British military personnel, the article demonstrates how policy discourses can expose individuals to harassment and u…
Effecting Discrimination: Operational Effectiveness and Harassment in the British Armed Forces
In recent years, the British military has introduced a number of policies aimed at recruiting and sustaining demographically diverse armed forces. Central to these is a 'zero-tolerance' approach to discrimination and harassment. However, by undertaking an 'effective' reading of policies aimed at managing sexual orientation and gender diversity, and by drawing on qualitative research with members of the British forces, this article demonstrates ho…
Gender, Race and Border Security Practices: A Profane Reading of ‘Muscular Liberalism’
In recent years the concept of the border has been reconceptualised: borders are no longer viewed primarily as static lines at the outer edge of the state, but increasingly as mobile, bio-political and virtual apparatuses of control. While such a reconceptualisation resonates with western border security practices, however, it is vulnerable to the critique that such a totalising vision of sovereign space does not take into account the varied resp…
War, Identity and the Liberal State: Everyday Experiences of the Geopolitical in the Armed Forces
This book critically examines the significance of gender, race and sexuality to wars waged by liberal states. Drawing on original field-research with British soldiers, it offers insights into how their everyday experiences are shaped by, and shape, a politics of gender, race and sexuality that not only underpins power relations in the military, but the geopolitics of wars waged by liberal states. Linking the politics of daily life to the internat…
Introduction: Traces of Conflict
The importance of the trace in relation to public memory and historical remembrance was highlighted in Pierre Nora's seminal work on French cultural, political, and historical memory, Les Lieux de
Sjoberg, Laura, Gendering Global Conflict: Toward a Feminist Theory of War
Laura Sjoberg's latest contribution to enhancing our understanding of the theory and practice of war, as both profoundly gendered and gendering, is an invitation to learn far more about the “war pu
Gender, race, militarism and remembrance: The everyday geopolitics of the poppy
This article offers a feminist analysis of how British military violence and war are, in part, made possible through everyday embodied and emotional practices of remembrance and forgetting. Focusing on recent iterations of the Royal British Legion’s Annual Poppy Appeal, I explore how the emotionality, and gendered and racial politics of collective mourning provide opportunities for the emergence of ‘communities of feeling’, through which differen…
Telling geopolitical tales: Temporality, rationality, and the 'childish' in the ongoing war for the Falklands-Malvinas Islands
Anniversaries of war often present opportunities for the telling and retelling of tales about the geopolitical; tales of a nation’s sovereignty, its identity, its security, and how these are imagined and reimagined through the notion of specific conflicts, their histories, beginnings, ends, and aftermaths. By examining the case of the ongoing ‘war’ over the Falklands-Malvinas and a particular set of stories where the ‘childish’ has come to charac…
What is Critical Military Studies
e p t e d fo r p u blic a tio n.Cit a tio n fo r fin al p u blis h e d ve r sio n:B a s h a m , Victo ri a , B elki n, Aa r o n a n d Gifkin s, Je s s 2 0 1 5. W h a t is c ritic al m ilit a ry s t u di e s ?C ri tic al Milit a ry S t u di e s 1 (1) , p p .1-2. 1 0 . 1 0 8 0/ 2 3 3 3 7 4 8 6. 2 0 1 5. 1 0 0 6 8 7 9 P u blis h e r s p a g e : h t t p:// dx.d oi.o r g/ 1 0. 1 0 8 0/ 2 3 3 3 7 4 8 6. 2 0 1 5
Encounters with the Military: Toward a Feminist Ethics of Critique
This conversation developed from a panel titled “Interrogating the Militarized Masculine: Reflections on Research, Ethics and Access” held at the May 2013 International Feminist Journal of Politics conference at the University of Sussex, UK
Raising an Army: The Geopolitics of Militarizing the Lives of Working-Class Boys in an Age of Austerity
This article examines the political and social impact of elevating military values in society in a context of austerity. Centering on discussions around two British government “military ethos” initiatives, I consider the idea that military service instills desirable qualities and values in military personnel, making them well suited to educating and socializing children, to the advantage of both children and society. Arguing that these schemes pr…
War is where the hearth is: Gendered labor and the everyday reproduction of the geopolitical in the army reserves
The feminized imaginary of “home and hearth” has long been central to the notion of soldiering as masculinist protection. Soldiering and war are not only materialized by gendered imaginaries of home and hearth though, but through everyday labors enacted within the home. Focusing on in-depth qualitative research with women partners and spouses of British Army reservists, we examine how women’s everyday domestic and emotional labor enables reservis…
Liberal militarism as insecurity, desire and ambivalence: Gender, race and the everyday geopolitics of war
The use and maintenance of military force as a means of achieving security makes the identity and continued existence of states as legitimate protectors of populations intelligible. In liberal democracies, however, where individual freedom is the condition of existence, citizens have to be motivated to cede some of that freedom in exchange for security. Accordingly, liberal militarism becomes possible only when military action and preparedness be…
Reproducing the military and heteropatriarchal normal: Army Reserve service as serious leisure
The notions that military violence engenders security and that military service is a selfless and necessary act are orthodoxies in political, military and scholarly debate. The UK Army Reserve’s recent expansion prompts reconsideration of this orthodoxy, particularly in relation to the suggestion that reservists serve selflessly. Drawing on fieldwork with British Army reservists and their spouses/partners, we examine how this orthodoxy allows res…
Living in dangerous times
There is a time for everything,and a season for every activity under the heavens:a time to be born and a time to die,a time to plant and a time to uproot,a time to kill and a time to heal,a time to
The gendered politics of researching military policy in the age of the ‘knowledge economy’
This article explores our experiences of conducting feminist interpretive research on the British Army Reserves. The project, which examined the everyday work-Army-life balance challenges that reservists face, and the roles of their partners/spouses in enabling them to fulfil their military commitments, is an example of a potential contribution to the so-called ‘knowledge economy’, where publicly funded research has come to be seen as ‘functional…
A necessarily historical materialist moment? Feminist reflections on the need for grounded critique in an age of crises
Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis reminds us how particular moments and events, albeit ones produced by systemic and reiterative processes, warrant serious reflection by scholars seeking to highlight and challenge modes of oppression and inequality. In drawing attention to the ‘violence of abstraction’ the book creates space for reconsidering how we move beyond modes of critique that focus primarily on principles, to those more rooted …
Ordering disorder: The making of world politics
This article offers insights into the character and composition of world order. It does so by focusing on how world order is made and revealed through seemingly disorderly events. We examine how societies struggle to interpret and respond to disorderly events through three modes of treatment: tragedy, crisis, and scandal. These, we argue, are the dominant modes of treatment in world politics, through which an account of disorder is articulated an…
Mr Rules: Keir Starmer and the juridification of politics
Keir Starmer’s moniker of ‘Mr Rules’ captures his deep investment in a rules-based form of politics that seeks to uphold established standards of probity and competency in public office. Rather than a mere tactic of opposition politics, we argue that it is symptomatic of the juridification of politics. By this we mean the ceding of the terrain of politics to the seemingly superior and separate domains of law and administration. Drawing upon and e…
Everyday modalities of militarization: Beyond Unidirectional, State-Centric, and Simplistic Accounts of State Violence
Critiques of militarization have deftly highlighted its limitations as a concept, not least because it too easily implies something done to otherwise benign and peaceful societies by militaries. The guest editors of this special issue however are inviting scholars to rethink militarization through the notion of everyday modalities. This more sociological approach, I argue, enables us to consider how militarization simultaneously produces and is p…
Military social harm: An agenda for research
This article presents a critical framework for understanding the harms produced by military institutions. Assessments of military harms are undertaken across the sociological study of the military, ranging from public-facing military issues to more inwardly directed research conducted by entities with vested state interests. Building upon and advancing the available scholarship, we introduce the concept of 'military social harm', drawing on crimi…
Death and denial in the city: Making sense of London Bridge and Grenfell
In the wake of violent events comes a rush to make sense of what happened. Sensemaking matters because it bounds political possibilities, producing knowledge about what caused the violence, who is accountable, and whether society should change to prevent a recurrence. This paper explores sensemaking through an intertextual discourse analysis of elite, print, and social media responses to two violent events in the global city of London in June 201…
Beyond being and becoming? The potential of intergenerational and intragenerational solidarity
Beyond the state: Reimagining Protection as Constellations of Care
Protection is traditionally conceptualised in relation to the state. Not only does the state provide protection externally, i.e. vis-à-vis other states in an assumed anarchical system, but also internally through various instruments of care. Such protection however relies on the social contract and is thus inherently transactional. Protection, and associated care, then becomes something earned, something one is entitled to by virtue of certain, p…
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