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- Aguirre Quiroga, Stefan, 1991
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Together with Bloody Knife in South Vietnam: Old West Metaphors and the Kit Carson Scouts during the Vietnam War
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of War and Culture Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1752-6272 .- 1752-6280. ; 16:3, s. 354-371
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Vietnam War saw widespread usage by American soldiers of metaphors and imagery referencing the mythic Old West of American history. This article examines a case of an Old West reference that has been overlooked in previous research: The Kit Carson Scouts, former PLAF and PAVN soldiers who had volunteered to work for the United States. I argue that Americans, ranging from high ranking officers to enlisted men, used Old West metaphors and imagery drawn from popular culture to interpret and understand the place that the Kit Carson Scout had amongst American forces and how the cooperation between South and North Vietnamese defectors and American soldiers was meant to function. In the process, Americans faced resistance from Vietnamese scouts who could not identify themselves with examples from mythologized American history.
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- Cristiano, Fabio
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From Simulations to Simulacra of War : Game Scenarios in Cyberwar Exercises
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of War and Culture Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1752-6272 .- 1752-6280. ; 11:1, s. 22-37
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores the underlying culture of war sustaining the setting of scenarios within cyberwar games. In particular, it engages with the question of how to simulate a phenomenon that, due to its remoteness, possesses an ambivalent relation to reality. Looking at scenarios of major national and international cyberwar games as illustrations, this article, first, engages with the modes of existence of simulated cyberwar through the conceptual prisms of copy/original and simulation/simulacra. It then explores how these scenarios frame cyberwar in relation to cyberwarfare scholarship and legislations. It then sheds light on how, through operational exercises, these scenarios ultimately reproduce cyberwar as an imagined cultural artifact.
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- Krohn Andersson, Fredrik, 1973-, et al.
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As above, so below? : On AHD critique, identity, essence and Cold War heritagizations in Sweden
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of War & Culture Studies. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1752-6272 .- 1752-6280. ; 16:4, s. 373-392
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, the example of Cold War heritagizations in a Swedish context is utilized to reflect on conceptualizations of heritage regarding identity and authenticity within critical heritage studies and research on Authorized Heritage Discourse (AHD). Herein, heritage is perceived as a difference machinery in which difference-produced identities are enacted and performed, and a Deleuzian and Butleresque antiessentialist perspective is adopted to show how the illusion of actual, nondifferential identities is underpinned by a hypostasized reification of AHD. Based on the analysis of how gender has been actualized within official and informal heritagizations, the central discussion concerns the purported benefits of heritages and heritagizations from below, often articulated within critical heritage studies literature. It is argued that both official and informal Cold War heritagizations construct a naturalized gendered logic of protection, with the consequence that security policy issues regarding protection and military violence are placed in a nonnegotiable, extrapolitical sphere.
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- Sandman, Tua, 1985-
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Reconstructing the peacekeeper : The televised sense-making of Sweden’s shifting policy on the use of force after the military failure in Bosnia 1995
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of War & Culture Studies. - 1752-6272 .- 1752-6280.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article interrogates how the shift to a more robust mandate in Bosnia was made intelligible to the Swedish TV audience. The turn to peace-enforcement and NATO command in December 1995 represented a clear break with Swedish tradition and identity, and essentially signified a turning point in Sweden’s policy on the use of force. The analysis reveals how four characterizations of the Swedish UN soldiers served to make sense of recent events and ultimately paved way for future policy changes; throughout the six-month period under scrutiny, the depictions, very broadly, moved from weak soldiers and failed warriors, to honourable peacekeepers and unique combat soldiers. The Swedish peacekeeper figure is thus reconstructed, essentially accommodating an increased involvement in activities of peace-enforcement and war-like operations.
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- Wendt, Maria
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Gendered Frames of Military Heritagization : The Case of Swedish Cold War History
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of War & Culture Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1752-6272 .- 1752-6280. ; 16:1, s. 21-40
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- How are opportunities to critically reflect upon military violence and militarization shaped by museal representations of a country's military history? Inspired by a critical heritage perspective and feminist international relations research, this article contributes to the scholarly discussion of the political implications of military memory making. The aim is to analyse how military violence is framed in official heritagization of the Cold War period in Sweden. Based on fieldwork at three military museums, the article discusses how framings of violence affect opportunities to politically and ethically engage with military issues and the use of force. A central question concerns how gender underpins representations of violence at the museums and how this gendering affects politicization. The analysis discloses that military violence is framed as sacred sacrifice, as ‘pure’ technology, as play and as (male) omnipotence. The argument made is that such gendered frames obscure and depoliticize problematic aspects of military violence.
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