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Everyday War - by Greta Lynn Uehling (Paperback)

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  • Everyday War provides an accessible lens through which to understand what noncombatant civilians go through in a country at war.
  • About the Author: Greta Lynn Uehling is a lecturer at the University of Michigan.
  • 210 Pages
  • Social Science, Anthropology

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About the Book



"This book explores what noncombatant civilians go through in a country at war. The first half takes place in the parts of Ukraine still controlled by central authorities, exploring friend, family, and romantic partner relationships to demonstrate how war can reconfigure intimacy. The second half is focused on life in and around the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces, where residents in close proximity to the military conflict were left, for the most part, to fend for themselves. A place with mercenary gunmen, criminal gangs, and political chaos was paradoxically also a place where ethics thrived"--



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Everyday War provides an accessible lens through which to understand what noncombatant civilians go through in a country at war. What goes through the mind of a mother who must send her child to school across a minefield or the men who belong to groups of volunteer body collectors? In Ukraine, such questions have been part of the daily calculus of life. Greta Uehling engages with the lives of ordinary people living in and around the armed conflict over Donbas that began in 2014 and shows how conventional understandings of war are incomplete.

In Ukraine, landscapes filled with death and destruction prompted attentiveness to human vulnerabilities and the cultivation of everyday, interpersonal peace. Uehling explores a constellation of social practices where ethics of care were in operation. People were also drawn into the conflict in an everyday form of war that included provisioning fighters with military equipment they purchased themselves, smuggling insulin, and cutting ties to former friends. Each chapter considers a different site where care can produce interpersonal peace or its antipode, everyday war.

Bridging the fields of political geography, international relations, peace and conflict studies, and anthropology, Everyday War considers where peace can be cultivated at an everyday level.



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What happens when war disrupts the routines of daily life? This heartfelt ethnography offers answers, perhaps even some solutions, in response to Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine.

-- "Choice"

Heartfelt, important, and engaging, author Greta Lynn Uehling's Everyday War is a must-read nonfiction book on the political and sociological effects of war, in particular the Donbas region. The way the author was able to bring to light the multitude of "players" in the field aside from the soldiers themselves, as well as the devastating losses people endured during the war, from property loss and injuries to emotional distress and even loss of loved ones, helps readers to gain a better, more nuanced yet moving idea of what these battles do to those struggling to survive in the midst of war.

--Anthony Avila

The eloquent title Everyday War, stuns us with the "banality of evil" in the spirit of Hannah Arendt and, at the same time, helps us to look into the inner world of people for whom the presence of war, however paradoxically, has become commonplace.

-- "Kritika"



About the Author



Greta Lynn Uehling is a lecturer at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Beyond Memory. Follow her on X @uehlingumiched1.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .48 Inches (D)
Weight: .7 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 210
Genre: Social Science
Sub-Genre: Anthropology
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Theme: Cultural & Social
Format: Paperback
Author: Greta Lynn Uehling
Language: English
Street Date: February 15, 2023
TCIN: 1013399022
UPC: 9781501768484
Item Number (DPCI): 247-61-9425
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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