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Everyday War
- Author
- Greta Lynn Uehling
- Narrator
- Erin Bennett
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 15 February 2023
- Run Time
- 7 hours 57 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Everyday War provides an accessible lens through which to understand what noncombatant civilians go through in a country at war.
What goes through the mind of a mother who must send her child to school across a minefield or the men who belong to groups of volunteer body collectors? In Ukraine, such questions have been part of the daily calculus of life. Greta Uehling engages with the lives of ordinary people living in and around the armed conflict over Donbas that began in 2014 and shows how conventional understandings of war are incomplete.
In Ukraine, landscapes filled with death and destruction prompted attentiveness to human vulnerabilities and the cultivation of everyday, interpersonal peace. Uehling explores a constellation of social practices where ethics of care were in operation. People were also drawn into the conflict in an everyday form of war that included provisioning fighters with military equipment they purchased themselves, smuggling insulin, and cutting ties to former friends. Each chapter considers a different site where care can produce interpersonal peace or its antipode, everyday war.
Bridging the fields of political geography, international relations, peace and conflict studies, and anthropology, Everyday War considers where peace can be cultivated at an everyday level.
Critics Review
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“Greta Uehling sensitively, and with nuance, highlights the often-misunderstood early stages of the war in Ukraine and the toll it has taken on its people. In her exploration of the Ukrainian conflict and thoughtful consideration of contextually complex language and culture, she brings many universal struggles to light.”
Maureen P. Flaherty, author of Peacebuilding with Women in Ukraine
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“Everyday War offers a unique perspective on the war in Donbas by giving voice to the people who lived through its various stages. Based on extensive and meticulously-conducted research, it explores the effects of war and violence on everyday life, illuminating a variety of individual experiences with the conflict.”
Sergiy Kudelia, author of The Strategy of Campaigning
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Details
- Author
- Greta Lynn Uehling
- Narrator
- Erin Bennett
- Duration
- 7 hours 57 minutes
- Release Date
- 15 February 2023
- ISBN
- 9798212321044
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Anthropology, Politics and government, History of other geographical groupings and regions, Migration, immigration and emigration
Synopsis
Everyday War provides an accessible lens through which to understand what noncombatant civilians go through in a country at war.What goes through the mind of a mother who must send her child to school across a minefield or the men who belong to groups of volunteer body collectors? In Ukraine, such questions have been part of the daily calculus of life. Greta Uehling engages with the lives of ordinary people living in and around the armed conflict over Donbas that began in 2014 and shows how conventional understandings of war are incomplete.In Ukraine, landscapes filled with death and destruction prompted attentiveness to human vulnerabilities and the cultivation of everyday, interpersonal peace. Uehling explores a constellation of social practices where ethics of care were in operation. People were also drawn into the conflict in an everyday form of war that included provisioning fighters with military equipment they purchased themselves, smuggling insulin, and cutting ties to former friends. Each chapter considers a different site where care can produce interpersonal peace or its antipode, everyday war.Bridging the fields of political geography, international relations, peace and conflict studies, and anthropology, Everyday War considers where peace can be cultivated at an everyday level.
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