Everyday War : : The Conflict over Donbas, Ukraine / / Greta Lynn Uehling.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Uehling, Greta Lynn,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (210 p.) :; 11 b&w halftones, 2 maps

Everyday War provides an accessible lens through which to understand what non-combatant 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 mined field? 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 a different site where peace can be cultivated at an everyday level.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: Everyday War -- 1. “Now We Have Funeral after Funeral” -- 2. Welcome to Café Patriot! Militarization and a Themed Café -- 3. Interpersonal Peace -- 4. Home Fronts -- 5. Boots, Gloves, and Tactical Kinship -- Intertext: “I Need a Peaceful Sky” -- 6. Praying to be Killed at Once -- 7. Everyday Sci-Fi and Practical Orientalism -- 8. The Volunteer Body Collectors of Ukraine -- 9. Concluding Thoughts -- Intertext: “I Realize that Nothing Will Be the Same Again” -- Appendix: Pseudonyms of Interviewees -- Notes -- References -- Index