Description
Embodiment has slowly and partially been integrated as a category of analysis in (Critical)Military Studies (Dyvik & Greenwood 2016). In this article, we argue that embodiment (Baker2021; Narozhna 2021)–and related concepts such as body, affects and emotions–have become growingly prevalent concerns over the ten-year consolidation of the intellectual project of the journal Critical Military Studies. We propose an inquiry organized around three axes:(1) the qualitative and narrative review of the analytical category of embodiment through out the ten years of the publication of Critical Military Studies; (2) the contribution of the journal’s articles in perspective with the wider field of Critical Military Studies and, finally; (3) the way forward in integrating embodiment in the field and pushing the research frontiers. To do so, the article is based on a narrative review (Ferrari 2015) of the concept of embodiment in the Critical Military Studies journal since 2015. From a cursory search, themes of such as the martial body/militarized body, relationships with technology, emotions and death, disability/material health, masculinities/femininities and gender/sexuality, race/racialization, resistance to militarization, as well as pedagogical and methodological interventions are already emerging.
