ABSTRACT
This chapter explores what relationships between spaces, objects and images reveal about various military conflicts. This perspective owes much to cultural studies as an academic discipline. The chapter suggests three sites of sense' that the researcher of military practices might utilize: visual image; fields of perception; and the body as well as materiality. Despite the growth of military-based research in the arts and humanities, few scholars take a visual or material perspective on war and conflict. In author research, he/she treat visual images and designed objects as cultural practices playing a part in shaping military conflicts. The British historian Jeremy Black recently observed a cultural turn in military history which has given rise to various studies that explicitly critique militarism as a cultural formation. Material culture, just like visual culture, asked how objects of all kinds created identities and mediated power.
