ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines the lived experiences of doing military research. Research on the military and military phenomena is not new, but has arguably been neglected relative to other comparable organisations and phenomena of societal importance. Military research poses a unique set of practical challenges for researchers working in civilian research contexts challenges which are seldom found in other spheres of social-scientific research. The book focuses on how social science and arts and humanities scholars engage with military-related texts, ranging from official archives to personal memoirs. It considers how various sensory faculties are enrolled by military researchers, and the accompanying politics of sense-making. The book also focuses on different experiences of using archival material as a basis for military research.
