scholarly journals Narrative approach to the art of war and military studies - Narratology as military science research paradigm

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Hanska
Keyword(s):  
Science Research ◽  
Research Paradigm ◽  
Leadership Studies ◽  
Military Studies ◽  
Art Of War ◽  
Critical Security Studies ◽  
Operational Art ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
New Research ◽  
The Military

Abstract The purpose of this article is to initiate discussion into the role narratives could play in military studies. Narratology is an old and well-established research paradigm that first emerged as part of the linguistic turn. Yet its potential has not been depleted. It is the study of narratives or stories. There are plenty of topics not yet approached from this perspective especially in the field of military studies. The military academia needs to broaden its scope of research and allow for alternative orientations and theories to be used to address traditional dilemmas, create new research paradigms and enrich the variety of analysis. Critical security studies approach shared topics with military studies by embracing the aesthetic turn that differentiates between the representation and the represented. The argument in this article is that to produce comprehensive information on its research topics military studies would benefit from embracing them as people experience them and not focus on their ontology. The article does not offer a methodological toolbox to the reader but rather an introduction to some classics of narratology and offers a few insights how this type of approach could be used in military history, strategy, operational art or even leadership studies.

scholarly journals The Hidden Grand Narrative of Western Military Policy: A Linguistic Analysis of American Strategic Communication

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-62
Author(s):  
Saara Jantunen ◽  
Aki-Mauri Huhtinen
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Strategic Communication ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Information Warfare ◽  
Military Studies ◽  
Art Of War ◽  
Friendly Fire ◽  
The Military ◽  
As Effects

Abstract Strategic communication has replaced information warfare. As Art of War has been replaced by science, the representations of war and the role of the military have changed. Both war and military forces are now associated with binary roles: destruction vs. humanity, killing vs. liberating. The logic behind ‘bombing for peace’ is encoded in the Grand Military Narrative. This narrative is hidden in American (and NATO) strategies such as Effects Based Operations, which rely heavily on technology. As people aim to rationalize the world with technology, they fail to take into account the uncertainty it brings. In warfare, that uncertainty is verbalized as “friendly fire”, “collateral damage” or simply as “accident”. Success and failure are up to technology. Technology is no longer a tool, but an ideology and an actor that not only ‘enables’ the military to take action, but legitimizes it. This article aims to contribute to military studies by analyzing, in the spirit of critical discourse analysis, American ‘Grand Military Narrative’ and he standard and trends of rhetoric it creates. The article focuses on pinpointing some of the linguistic choices and discourses that define the so-called ‘techno-speak’, the product of modern techno-ideology. These discourses result in representations of techno-centered binary values, which steer military strategy and foreign policy.

Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Catherine Baker
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
International Politics ◽  
State Violence ◽  
The State ◽  
Racial Oppression ◽  
Military Studies ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Military

This introduction reviews debates about ‘militarisation’ in the disciplines which have contributed to Critical Military Studies (including history, geography, sociology and International Relations) and explains the ‘aesthetic’ and ‘embodied’ turns that this volume shows how to synthesise. To study militarisation, aesthetics and embodiment together, it argues, involves studying combinations of how things are sensed and how bodies experience them, across contexts related to the military and its place in wider society: the complex and contradictory affective interplay of aesthetics and embodiment, which feminist approaches have been particularly fruitful for theorising, informs what we know about militarisation today. However, the very concept of ‘militarisation’ makes assumptions about normal relationships between the state, the public and violence which may not be transhistorically or even globally applicable, especially where state violence has been inherent to enforcing systems of racial oppression.

Studying Aptitude-Treatment Interactions: Development of a New Research Paradigm.

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary A. Lightfoot-Statman ◽  
Monica A. Gribben ◽  
Jennifer A. Naughton ◽  
Rodney A. McCloy
Keyword(s):  
Research Paradigm ◽  
New Research

Looking to the Middle of the Qualitative-Quantitative Spectrum for Integrated Mixed Methods

2021 ◽  
pp. 104649642199243
Author(s):  
Jensine Paoletti ◽  
Tiffany M. Bisbey ◽  
Stephanie Zajac ◽  
Mary J. Waller ◽  
Eduardo Salas
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Interaction Analysis ◽  
Agent Based Modeling ◽  
Research Paradigm ◽  
Complex Dynamic ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
State Space Grids ◽  
New Research ◽  
Qualitative Characteristics

Substantially advancing the study of teams will require a new research paradigm complete with methods capable of capturing the complex, dynamic process of teamwork. In this paper, we suggest studying teams with an integrated mixed methods approach (i.e., methods defined by an interconnected mix of quantitative and qualitative characteristics) can help address current methodological shortcomings of our science by promoting sufficiently contextualized research. Through a review of methods, we highlight exemplars of integrated mixed methods that have the potential to be more widely adopted; namely, interaction analysis, content analysis, cluster analysis, state space grids, and agent-based modeling.

Die intrinsische Systemreaktion des tribologisch beanspruchten Schmierfettes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Kuhn
Keyword(s):  
Driving Forces ◽  
Observation Point ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Research Paradigm ◽  
Lubricating Grease ◽  
New Research

This article deals with the observed reactions of a lubricating grease to tribological stress. An attempt is made to find the driving forces describe that are responsible for the intrinsic response. From these considerations, a new research paradigm is derived that leaves the traditional observation point of view. The investigations are illustrated with experimental results.

Digital Mega-Studies as a New Research Paradigm: Governing the Health Research of the Future

2021 ◽  
pp. 155626462110414
Author(s):  
Jessica Bell ◽  
Megan Prictor ◽  
Lauren Davenport ◽  
Lynda O’Brien ◽  
Melissa Wake
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Group Processes ◽  
Research Paradigm ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Governance Challenges ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Multi Stakeholder ◽  
New Research

‘Digital Mega-Studies’ are entirely or extensively digitised, longitudinal, population-scale initiatives, collecting, storing, and making available individual-level research data of different types and from multiple sources, shaped by technological developments and unforeseeable risks over time. The Australian ‘Gen V’ project exemplifies this new research paradigm. In 2019, we undertook a multidisciplinary, multi-stakeholder process to map Digital Mega-Studies’ key characteristics, legal and governance challenges and likely solutions. We conducted large and small group processes within a one-day symposium and directed online synthesis and group prioritisation over subsequent weeks. We present our methods (including elicitation, affinity mapping and prioritisation processes) and findings, proposing six priority governance principles across three areas—data, participation, trust—to support future high-quality, large-scale digital research in health.

Liebenberg, Ian, Jorge Risquet and Vladimir Shubin (eds), A Far-away War: Angola, 1975-1989. Stellenbosch: Sun Press 2015, 207 pp.

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan F Mutton
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Deputy Director ◽  
Reference Book ◽  
40Th Anniversary ◽  
Military Academy ◽  
Military Studies ◽  
The Military ◽  
Extensive Bibliography

This publication, which consists of an Introduction and eight chapters by different authors, appeared at the time of the 40th anniversary of the entry of South Africa into the Angolan war. It is short but packed with useful information and well-documented with photos, geographical and combat maps, an extensive bibliography of 35 pages, political cartoons and posters,historical surveys and statistics. Edited by the South African Ian Liebenberg (Director of the Centre for Military Studies at the Military Academy in Stellenbosch), the Cuban Jorge Risquet (who participated in the 1988 Angolan peace talks), and the Russian Vladimir Shubin (former Deputy Director of the Institute for African Studies at the Russian Academy of Science), A Far-Away War sheds new light on this prolonged conflict, focusing on the involvement of South-Africa, Cuba, Russia and East-Germany.In doing so, it opens new perspectives and widens the understanding of the struggle for liberation in Southern Africa, not only for the average history and politics reader but also, as a very useful reference book, for the more advanced researcher and academic.

Normal chaos: A new research paradigm for understanding practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Lauder ◽  
Hugo Marynissen
Keyword(s):  
Research Paradigm ◽  
New Research

scholarly journals Spectres of M.I.A

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeyapriya Foster
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Independent State ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Close Textual Analysis ◽  
Living Dead ◽  
Truth Claims ◽  
Missing In Action ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Military

<p><b>M.I.A, born Mathangi Arulpragasam, is a British Sri Lankan Tamil artist-activist whose acronymised stage persona refers to the military term Missing in Action. Set against hegemonic readings which privilege postcolonial, feminist, or transnational categories of analyses, my original contribution to knowledge is to locate M.I.A’s work in the political contexts in which they are produced. I thereby foreground the hidden Tamil erasures of the Sri Lankan civil war (1983-2009) that traverse the artist’s productions. The historicisation of M.I.A’s politics of haunting is not only a research gap, but central in understanding the artist’s texts. Using hauntology as a framework and close textual analysis as a method, this thesis constitutes a Tamil-centric reading of M.I.A’s work as well as a nuanced contribution to hauntology studies. </b></p><p>My study identifies the Tamil cemeteries evoked in four songs—“Galang” (2003), “Bucky Done Gun” (2004), “Born Free” (2010), and “Borders” (2015)—inquiring into their visual translations, functions, objectives, and larger political significance. I particularly focus on their visual language that emerge from the collective absence-presences of the war, shared by the Tamil diaspora, of which the artist and I are part. My analyses also extend to probing salient aspects of the lyrics, performance, sound- and sartorial politics. </p><p>My textual analyses render the following findings: M.I.A’s productions recirculate histories of Tamil erasure as sites of death. They replicate and extend the funerary work of the cemeteries of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)—a Sri Lankan Tamil nationalist, separatist, and militant organisation that fought for an independent state in the north and north east of Sri Lanka. The artist recartographises Tamil cemeteries into ubiquitous popcultural expressions, in which the aesthetic techniques—animated stencils, flags, murals, photo montages, and performative bodies—visibilise and physicalise the materiality of violence enacted upon Tamils. M.I.A’s topographies of death rematerialise the architecture of cemeteries as inconspicuous yet omnipresent sites of absence, marking a simultaneous obscuration and ubiquitisation of cemeterial landscapes. These memory locales tend to Tamil graves, expose Tamil truth claims, and let the dead speak with and through the depiction of their brutalised bodies. Urging a responsibility for the (living) dead, they challenge the state’s control over ontology and visibility that renders Tamil lives unlivable and absent.</p>

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