Creative Methods in Military Studies

Alice Cree is a NUAcT Fellow at Newcastle University, UK. Her research expertise lies at the intersection between Critical Military Studies and Feminist Geopolitics, with a particular focus on creative methods in military research. She is principle investigator on the Economic and Social Research Council funded project 'Conflict, Intimacy, and Military Wives: A Lively Geopolitics', and has published work in International Political Sociology, Gender, Place & Culture, and the Journal of War and Culture Studies, among others.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionAlice CreePart IChapter 1. Turning RAF Fylingdales Inside Out: Using Creative Practice to Understand Ballistic Missile Early Warning and Space MonitoringRachel Woodward, Chloë Barker, K. Neil Jenkings, and Michael MulvihillChapter 2. Visualizing Drone Ethnography in the Shadows of Distributive WarSara MatthewsChapter 3. Notating War, Choreographing Soldiers: Dance Methods as Military StratagemCharlotte VealChapter 4. All Things Bright and Beautiful the Lord Bomb Made Them All: More than Human Creativity and the Cyborg Geology of Nuclear Weapon DesignMichael MulvihillPart IIChapter 5. “These Uniforms Have Been Places.” From Combat to Paper to Exchange: A CMS Research EncounterLaura MillsChapter 6. Modelling Military Landscapes: Archival Encounters, Model-Making, and Camouflage PracticeJames P. RobinsonChapter 7. Theatre of War: Critical Feminist Research Praxis in Creative Military ResearchAlice Cree and Hannah WestChapter 8. Making Sp

This book's timely and nuanced set of contributions reveal not only the value of creative approaches in military studies but also chart how creativity, in various forms, is (already) bound with and to projects of military power and violence.