Military presences, civilian absences
Battling nature at the Sennybridge Training Area, 19402008
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12914739 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tim J Cole (0000-0001-5711-8200, University of Bristol, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 215-235 |
| Publication date | 2010-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of War and Culture Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1752-6272 • E-ISSN: 1752-6280 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1386/jwcs.3.2.215_1 |
| OpenAlex | W1975009173 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 13 |
This article draws upon environmental history perspectives to reframe the relationship between the military and technology. It assesses military claims dubbed by Woodward (2001) khaki conservation that military land use has prevented the more environmentally damaging practices of intensive agriculture with its use of technologies of fertilizers and pesticides, through a case study of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) Sennybridge Training Area (SENTA) in upland Wales. Here military environmentalism has told a very different story from that articulated by displaced civilians. The article teases out the discourses of military environmentalism presented by the MoD, but also moves beyond these publicly articulated statements to consider the story told in private and seeks to assess the validity of military claims. The complex nature of land use at SENTA points to the military despite its rhetoric continuing its own battle against nature deemed out of place
Archaeology · Battle · Christian ministry · Cognitive reframing · Environmental ethics · Environmentalism · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Psychology · Public Administration · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology · Social Psychology · Water Governance and Infrastructure
| Citations per year | 0.31 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |