Overview

While the 1914 Christmas truces have a mythological status in British culture, intimate interactions with the enemy are, this edited collection shows, a staple of modern warfare. Spanning the nineteenth century to the present, chapters consider how feeling for the enemy is shaped by competing ideals of nationalism, patriotism and cosmopolitanism, and explore limits to recognitions that 'they are just like us' structured by nationality, race, religion and class. Contributors scrutinise asymmetries of power in enemy encounters, including by gender, sexuality, economic security or precarity.

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Author:   Holly Furneaux ,  Matilda Greig
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2024
ISBN:  

9783031567476

ISBN 10:   3031567471
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   27 April 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface; Santanu Das.- 1. Introduction; Holly Furneaux and Matilda Greig.- 2. Encounters with Peninsular War Guerrillas and the Marginalisation of Irregular Warfare; Matilda Greig.- 3. ‘He said he was an Irishman also’: Irish American Union and Confederate Encounter Stories in the American Civil War; Catherine Bateson.- 4. Encountering the Enemy in Fin-de-siècle Colonial Wars: Racial Difference and the Limits of Fellow Feeling; Tom Menger.- 5. Global Sexual Encounters with Racialized ‘Others’ in War, Genocide and Captivity, 1905-1945; Lisa Todd, Allison Bennett, and Jordyn Bailey.- 6. ‘Yoors truly German’: A Micro-history of Poetic Enemy Encounters of the 1917 Retreat; Julia Ribeiro S C Thomaz.- 7. Dying with the Enemy: Prisoner of War Deaths in First World War Britain; Tim Grady.- 8. Racial Encounters in Wartime Post/Colonial Indo-Myanmar Borderlands; Lily Tekseng.- 9. ‘Children Made to Carry Bombs’: Staging the ‘Emergency’ in Malaya (1948-60); Maria Creech.- 10. Trusting Your Enemy: American Encounters with the Kit Carson Scouts During the Vietnam War, 1966–1973; Stefan Aguirre Quiroga.- 11. Between ‘Nostalgia’ and ‘Self-Othering’: Self-Orientalism, Strategic Nostalgia and Self-Othering Practises in Islamic State Propaganda Imagery; Jared Ahmad.- 12. Memorializing the Enemy Three Ways: Australia, Japan, the USA; Christine Sylvester.- Afterword; Holly Furneaux and Matilda Greig in conversation with Karin Diamond, Artistic Director at Re-Live.

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Holly ​Furneaux is Professor at Cardiff University, UK. Matilda Greig is Postdoctoral Fellow at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain.

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