David Wästerfors
Professor
Sad and Absurd Representations of War in Gameplay and Interviews
Författare
Summary, in Swedish
There is a vivid interest in so-called epimilitary narratives of war that depart from heroic themes and zoom out from the armed forces. This article joins this direction by analyzing two variants of cultural narratives of the war in Bosnia-Hercegovina during the 1990s and the siege of Sarajevo: the videogame This War of Mine and Bosnian citizens’ personal stories told in qualitative interviews. Both variants portray war as an uncontrollable condition devoid of grand meanings, as an arena for survival skills and moral work rather than heroic deeds or moral tests, and as an object for detailed analysis rather than categorical positioning. To highlight this type of narrative across diverse manifestations may sensitize researchers to capture how the mundane and emotional content of war is articulated outside political scripts.
Avdelning/ar
- Sociologi
Publiceringsår
2023
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
390-409
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Cultural Sociology
Volym
17
Issue
3
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
SAGE Publications
Ämne
- Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
- Cultural Studies
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1749-9755