Introduction: The Dialectics of Displacement and Emplacement
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Introduction : The Dialectics of Displacement and Emplacement. / Vigh, Henrik Erdman; Bjarnesen, Jesper.
In: Conflict and Society, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2016, p. 9-15.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Introduction
T2 - The Dialectics of Displacement and Emplacement
AU - Vigh, Henrik Erdman
AU - Bjarnesen, Jesper
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Wars unsettle our commonsense understandings of movement and mobility. Simultaneously entropic and inertial, they conjure up images of rampant disorder and chaos as well as strained and crippled formations locked in negative tension. On the one hand, detrimental movement; on the other, deadly stalemate. Both mobility and immobility are, as such, associated with the iconography of warfare and conflicts. They may be presented as out of time through pictures of empty streets, ruins, trenches, and dead bodies frozen in contorted positions, yet, conversely, some of the most archetypical images of war connote speed, flows, and movement, seen in images of troop advances or retreats, rows of traveling refugees, and hauls of humanitarian aid shipped or flown into airports and harbors from afar. In temporal terms, conflict and violence are oft en represented in the lethargy of decay or the entropy of aggression.
AB - Wars unsettle our commonsense understandings of movement and mobility. Simultaneously entropic and inertial, they conjure up images of rampant disorder and chaos as well as strained and crippled formations locked in negative tension. On the one hand, detrimental movement; on the other, deadly stalemate. Both mobility and immobility are, as such, associated with the iconography of warfare and conflicts. They may be presented as out of time through pictures of empty streets, ruins, trenches, and dead bodies frozen in contorted positions, yet, conversely, some of the most archetypical images of war connote speed, flows, and movement, seen in images of troop advances or retreats, rows of traveling refugees, and hauls of humanitarian aid shipped or flown into airports and harbors from afar. In temporal terms, conflict and violence are oft en represented in the lethargy of decay or the entropy of aggression.
U2 - 10.3167/arcs.2016.020104
DO - 10.3167/arcs.2016.020104
M3 - Journal article
VL - 2
SP - 9
EP - 15
JO - Conflict and Society
JF - Conflict and Society
SN - 2164-4543
IS - 1
ER -
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