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David Wästerfors

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Sad and Absurd Representations of War in Gameplay and Interviews

Författare

  • David Wästerfors

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