BISA 2025 Conference

Military encounters I: sites and spaces of CMS

WE 18

18 Jun 2025, 09:00

1h 30m

Panel Critical Military Studies Working Group

Description

This panel is the first of two exploring diverse, messy and complex military encounters. Centring on the sites and spaces of Critical Military Studies, it provokes thinking on where military encounters take shape, how they are/become embodied, and what bodies they entangle with(in) them.

Subcontributions

• Of Rubble, Ruins and Bulldozers: Punitive Populism, Popular Culture and The Missing Link in Critical Military Studies
• Opening the black box: algorithmic regimes of targeted social media advertising in international security
• Everyday-ing Japanese war memories: Re-thinking the construction of collective memory
• Capturing audience and curatorial reflections on the Imperial War Museum’s exhibition ‘Northern Ireland: Living with the Troubles’ (2023-2024)
• Booth Babes, Drones and Desire: Theorising the Arms Fair through (Auto)Ethnographic Fieldwork