Modern conflict and the senses : killer instincts? / edited by Nicholas J. Saunders and Paul Cornish.
"Modern Conflict and the Senses investigates the sensual worlds created by modern war, focusing on the sensorial responses embodied in and provoked by the materiality of conflict and its aftermath. The volume positions the industrialized nature of twentieth-century war as a unique cultural phen...
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / David Howes
- Introduction / Paul Cornish, Nicholas J. Saunders, Mark Smith
- Part 1. Sensual landscapes
- Sensing war : concept and space in the Imperial War Museum's First World War galleries / Paul Cornish
- Materiality, space, and distance in the First World War / Nicholas J. Saunders
- Assaulting the senses : life and landscape beneath the Western Front / Matthew Leonard
- The scent of snow at Punta Linke : First World War sites as sensecapes, Trentino, Italy / Franco Nicolis
- Sensorial engagement in tourism experiences on the Western Front / Stephen Miles
- "Dead air" : the acoustic of war and peace : creative interpretations of the sounds of conflict and remembrance / Paul Gough and Katie Davies
- Moaning minnie and the doodlebugs : soundscapes of air warfare in Second World War Britain / Gabriel Moshenska
- The cave mouth : listening to sound and voice in Okinawan war memory / Rupert Cox and Angus Carlyle
- Emplacing the Italian resistance : the dystopian fight against Fascism and Nazism (1943-1945) / Sarah De Nardi
- Part 2. Sensing bodies
- Odour and ethnicity : Americans and Japanese in the Second World War / Susannah Callow
- Ingestion and digestion on the Western Front / Rachel Duffett
- Trench crap : excremental aspects of the First World War / Dominiek Dendooven
- Sense and sensibility : the power of print in post-war recuperation / Jeffrey S. Reznick
- The "white death" : thirst and water in the Chaco War / Esther Breithoff
- Jan Karski : from eye witness to moral witness : what to do with your senses / Annette Becker
- The sensory signature of being an airman in a Second World War Lancaster bomber / Melanie Winterton
- Sounds of horror : sensorial experiences of a Gestapo prison, Begunje (Slovenia) / Uroš Košir
- The uninvited guests who outstayed their welcome : the ghosts of war in the Channel Islands / Gilly Carr
- Sensory deprivation during the Irish Civil War (1923-1924) : female political prisoners at Kilmainhan Gaol, Dublin / Laura McAtackney
- Part 3. Sensorial objects
- Sensing the Sepoy : objects, letters and songs of Indian soldiers, 1914-1918 / Santanu Das
- War with flowers : the paintings of albert heim and the german sensory experience of the Somme, 1914-1916 / Alastair H. Fraser
- The senses : battlefield exploration, drawing and sculpture / Steve Hurst
- War, memory and the senses in the Imperial War Museum London, 1920-2014 / Alys Cundy
- Afterword / Joanna Bourke.