Inking Wartime: Military Tattoos and the Temporalities of the War Experience

IF 3.5 2区 社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2022-07-23 DOI:10.1093/ips/olac015
Mirko Palestrino
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Military tattoos have recently become the latest genre of war art deployed by museums to make war tangible to their visitors. These new war objects give rise to important temporal inconsistencies: as individual soldiers relate different understandings of wartime, exhibitions mediate them monolithically, reproducing a notion of wartime as exceptional, finite, and temporary. To grasp this inconsistency, this article introduces a conceptual distinction between chronic and chronological embodied temporalities of war experience. In the four exhibitions of military tattoos under analysis, different veterans locate war's end at different junctures or moments. In these experiences, the issue of war's ending is a matter of chronology. In contrast, other veterans find war to be never-ending. In this case, war is akin to a chronic condition, whose very essence is a sense of temporal lingering that puts the idea of war's ending into question. I show that sticking to univocal understanding of wartime, exhibitions of military tattoos efface chronic and chronologically discrepant war experiences, contributing to the (re)production of a war/peace(time) binary that has been repeatedly deemed to be problematic and violent.
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水墨战争时期:军事纹身和战争经验的暂时性
军事纹身最近已成为博物馆部署的最新战争艺术类型,目的是让游客感受到战争。这些新的战争对象产生了重要的时间不一致性:当个别士兵对战时的不同理解联系在一起时,展览将它们统一地进行调解,再现了战时是特殊的、有限的和暂时的概念。为了理解这种不一致性,本文引入了战争经验的慢性时间性和按时间体现的时间性之间的概念区别。在分析的四个军事纹身展览中,不同的退伍军人将战争的结束定位在不同的时刻。根据这些经验,战争结束的问题是一个时间问题。相比之下,其他退伍军人发现战争永无止境。在这种情况下,战争类似于一种慢性病,其本质是一种暂时的挥之不去的感觉,这让战争结束的想法受到质疑。我表明,坚持对战争的统一理解,军事纹身的展览消除了长期的、按时间顺序不一致的战争经历,有助于(重新)产生一种战争/和平(时间)二元对立,这种对立一再被认为是有问题和暴力的。
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期刊介绍: International Political Sociology (IPS), responds to the need for more productive collaboration among political sociologists, international relations specialists and sociopolitical theorists. It is especially concerned with challenges arising from contemporary transformations of social, political, and global orders given the statist forms of traditional sociologies and the marginalization of social processes in many approaches to international relations. IPS is committed to theoretical innovation, new modes of empirical research and the geographical and cultural diversification of research beyond the usual circuits of European and North-American scholarship.
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