International Joking Relationships
What can soldier humour tell us about international relations? To begin with, humour is a universal social practice …
When Soldiers became Spiritual: Wartime Beliefs
The dominant discourse about war is that soldiers deployed and fighting in it dominate the landscape, and the animals which live in it. This paper focuses on the ways that Zimbabwean soldiers were made to understand the sacredness and spirituality of the Democratic Republic of Congo landscape: river water, swamps, snakes and ghosts by the local Congolese civilian people.
Between privilege and precarity: European soldiers remobilising as private security contractors in Africa. An interview with Jethro Norman
What happens to soldiers after they leave the military? From the Middle East to Africa, increasing numbers of demobilised soldiers have found work in private military and security companies or as security consultants, military trainers, and risk management professionals. While often in the news, sustained ethnographic research with this group is limited, and they are …