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Intersections of Sociology with Crip Theory, Critical Disability Studies, and Mad Studies.
One-day hybrid symposium for researchers and community members.
11th June 9.30 - 4.30
Centenary Building, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ. And online!
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In contrast to perceptions of the war phenomenon as a situation of exception and, as such, a shocking and obscure object, apprehending the war from an ordinary perspective and through a socio-historical approach is a fruitful entry point for understanding the functioning of societies, the solidity of social ties that sustain them, the solicitude they manifest for their populations exposed to the outbreaks of violence, and, in particular, for the violated, displaced, exhausted, sick, wounded, mutilated, or people experiencing disabilities. The relationship between wars, their bodily/mental impacts and care has been studied extensively in the history of medicine, welfare policies, veterans, and disability, but mainly from the perspective of Western European or North American societies. Research highlights a constant concern of health professionals, supported by charity and voluntary organizations for bodies affected by violence from WWI, not to mention earlier conflicts, to international military operations in Iraq or Afghanistan. Those efforts range from providing training for soldiers and civilians, professionals, and ordinary actors (e.g., fighters, civilian defense volunteers), as well as the deployment of (para)medical logistics and emergency first aid near the front line, to the supply of medicines, in-hospital care, development of new care infrastructure and body-repairing techniques.
Analyses focusing on care for bodies impacted by wartime violence in East-Central and East-Southern European societies remain scarce to date. Existing research points to difficulties in developing an adequate and comprehensive medical response because of the scale of bodily and mental injuries on the Eastern front(s), as well as to a long-standing tendency for social disregard for incapacitated veterans and civilians who are marginalized in redistributive schemes, reduced to poor-quality prosthetic services, or even to begging on the streets as in the USSR. This draws, in essence,โฆ
The aim of this conference is to fill an important gap in our understanding of the relation between war, violence-affected and thus fragilized bodies and care in East-Central and East-Southern European societies in a long-term perspective, that of the armed conflicts of the 20th-21st centuries. East-Central and East-Southern European societies have historically been disrupted by the brutality of war violence and confronted with the short- and long-term challenges of managing its consequences, evolving in a context of collapsing empires and emerging new states in the borderlands, of constantly redrawn borders and changing political regimes, but also engaged in an intense circulation of ideas, norms, models, people, and practices. Therefore, East-Central and East-Southern European societies constitute a laboratory for social innovation in caring for violence-affected bodies on various scales (community, associative, humanitarian, municipal, state, national, international). The conferenceโs objective is also to shed light on multiple entanglements between body and care in the ordeal of war through a resolutely interdisciplinary dialogue between historians and sociologists, but also open to other social scientists, and through both โtop-downโ and โbottom-upโ approaches, or multi-scalar analysis.
We define care broadly, both as curative treatment (cure) aimed at recovering and, by extension, a system of organized provision of medical care (healthcare), and as social relations, attitudes, policies, and practices of assistance to others, that are exercised in a variety of settings (charity, voluntary help, family, paid workโฆ) and rely, at the level of social care, on interventions by public authorities, communities and private actors in support of people considered as vulnerable (welfare). In the context of armed conflicts, care also involves a significant militarization of actors (patients, care-providers) and the renegotiation of what taking care and providing care meansโฆ
Among the topics we would offer for consideration are:
Body and mental health. What are the main impacts of military strategies (bombing, blockades, occupation), technologies (equipment, transportation, housing), weapons or ammunition, and protective gear (bulletproof vests, helmets, masks) on bodies and mental health? How are these bodily impacts (diseases, wounds, mutilations, disabilities) medically treated and socially cared for during the war and in its aftermath? How are psychological traumas and mental disorders, which have long been marginalized and now statistically dominate the spectrum of illnesses observed in many wartime contexts, assessed, and managed? What correlations can be observed between the evolution of the warfare means and the injuries sustained, from the mass shelling of the First World War to the intensive use of drones and rockets in the Russian-Ukrainian war? What physical and mental after-affects do the lived experiences of wartime violence leave in the long term? How do they impact individual and collective trajectories of those concerned? Finally, how are dead bodies handled?
Hygiene, nutrition, epidemics. By bringing extremely precarious living conditions, the war results in major health problems for both the military and civilians and in spreading of water, sanitation, and hygiene- associated diseases. What kinds of solutions does the war favor at the political, military, scientific, medical, industrial level in face of epidemic outbreaks and hygienic vulnerability? What is the role of technological innovation, sanitation programs and education in sanitary policies?
Healthcare institutions and actors. How does the war affect healthcare institutions and actors, both military and civilian? How do institutions and actors respond to wartime emergencies: huge contingents of sick, violated, wounded, mutilated bodies; propagation of epidemics; threats to the most vulnerable categories (children, the elderly, people with disability)? How โฆ
Healthcare institutions and actors. How does the war affect healthcare institutions and actors, both military and civilian? How do institutions and actors respond to wartime emergencies: huge contingents of sick, violated, wounded, mutilated bodies; propagation of epidemics; threats to the most vulnerable categories (children, the elderly, people with disability)? How do they cope with the lack of medicines and specialized care facilities? How does war transform the geography, chains, and standards of healthcare, as well as the gestures and practices of medical practitioners? What therapeutic, surgical, and prosthetic innovations does the war encourage? What impact does it produce on (para)medical training? How does it redefine the boundaries of professionalism (versus amateurism/volunteering), and redraw the profile of actors admitted to step in to provide medical assistance? Finally, how does the war and its sanitary shortfalls contribute to the reconstruction of healthcare institutions and medical standards in the aftermath of war?
Care provision, regimes, and infrastructure. Emergency, in particular the need to enable wounded and sick to fight again in context of mass casualties, is one of the main factors structuring the provision of care or its denial (through triage) in wartime. As a result, the war induces a radical (re)definition of care priorities, hierarchies and vulnerabilities. Whom, between soldiers and civilians, are to be protected and cared for first? What other categories (children, women, elderly people, civilians with disability, displaced persons, veterans) are to be considered as vulnerable, deserving or worthy, and prioritized? How do gender, ethnicity, age, nature of injury or disability, civilian/military, national/allied/foreign, or enemy status underpin the categorization of populations during the war and regulate the access to care, including some while excluding others? What inequalities or medical discrimination in access to care do theโฆ
๐ข Call for paper: "Body and care in the ordeal of war"
๐Prague, November 12-14 2025
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Deadline: May 5, 2025
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