ABSTRACT
This collection explores ways to conceptualize war as practices of international collective violence that involve bodily experiences of many kinds. Those experiences run the gamut from physical pain to gender exhilaration, from weighty debates about the human to national and family war memories that haunt today’s social relations. There is no punch line at the end of this exercise, no definition, theory, approach, methodology, or set agenda that links and harnesses the insights offered here into “a” research program. Rather, drawing on perspectives from law, history, anthropology, ethics and philosophy, development studies, international relations, and art practice, the collection provides contexts of war and experience in which bodily experiences foreground both the personal and the political. In this concluding chapter, I mark out a few research pathways to consider taking next, hoping that others will come along on these journeys or create pathways of their own to understanding and theorizing war as experience.
