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war, violence, militarism, body, embodiment, senses, sociology, social theory,

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The Open University: Milton Keynes, GB

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The Open University: Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, GB

2020-10-01 to present | Senior Lecturer in Sociology (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences)
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Kevin McSorley

University of Portsmouth: Portsmouth, Hampshire, GB

2007-10-01 to 2020-09-30 | Senior Lecturer in Sociology (Sociology)
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Kevin McSorley

Works (29)

Archives of Enmity and Martial Epistemology

2021-01 | Book chapter | Author
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Contributors: Agostinho, Daniela; Gade, Solveig; Thylstrup, Nanna Bonde; Veel, Kristin; Kevin McSorley
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Sensate regimes of war: Smell, tracing and violence

Security Dialogue
2020-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/0967010619893231
Contributors: Kevin McSorley
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Discussing empathy and critique in the ethnography of things military: a conversation

Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology
2019-12-16 | Other | Author
DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2019.1687551
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Contributors: Sebastian Mohr; Birgitte Sorenson; Matti Weisdorf; Eyal Ben-Ari; Sarah Hautzinger; Kevin McSorley; Jean Scandlyn; Zoe Wool
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Playing in the End Times: Wargames, Resilience and the Art of Failure

2019-12-12 | Book chapter | Author
DOI: 10.5040/9781501351181.ch-003
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 72639
Contributors: Hammond, Philip; Pötzsch, Holger; Kevin McSorley
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Predatory War, Drones and Torture: Remapping the Body in Pain

Body & Society
2019-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X18822085
Contributors: Kevin McSorley
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Doing military fitness: physical culture, civilian leisure, and militarism

Critical Military Studies
2016 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1080/23337486.2016.1148292
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 72633
Contributors: Kevin McSorley
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Cosmopolitanism and the body

Cosmopolitan Modernity
2015 | Book
DOI: 10.3726/978-3-0353-0728-3
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Contributors: McSorley, K.
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The fangs behind the mask: Everyday life in wartime Chechnya

Masquerades of War
2015 | Book
DOI: 10.4324/9781315749372
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Introduction: War and the Body

2015-06-09 | Book chapter | Editor, Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 73205
Contributors: Kevin McSorley
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Rethinking War and the Body

2015-06-09 | Book chapter | Editor, Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 73206
Contributors: Kevin McSorley
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Too Fat to Fight? Obesity, Bio-Politics and the Militarization of Children’s Bodies

2015-06-09 | Book chapter | Editor, Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 73207
Contributors: Kevin McSorley; Joseph Burridge
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War and the Body: Militarisation, Practice and Experience

2015-06-09 | Other | Editor
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Contributors: Kevin McSorley
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The Fangs Behind the Mask: Everyday Life in Wartime Chechnya

2015-05-28 | Book chapter | Author
DOI: 10.4324/9781315749372-8
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 72640
Contributors: Sylvester, Christine; Kevin McSorley
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Helmetcams, embodiment and experience in Afghanistan

Global Insecurities Centre Visiting Speaker Series, Bristol, United Kingdom, 5/02/14
2014 | Conference paper | Author
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University of Portsmouth

Towards an embodied sociology of war

Sociological Review
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/1467-954X.12194
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Militarism and the body

Militarization in Everyday Life in the UK conference, London, United Kingdom, 19/10/13
2013 | Conference paper | Author
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Rethinking war and the body

War and the body: Militarisation, practice and experience
2013 | Book
DOI: 10.4324/9780203081419
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Somatic war

New Approaches to the History and Memory of War and Conflict Symposium, Brighton, United Kingdom, 7/12/13
2013 | Conference paper | Author
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Contributors: Kevin McSorley
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Violence, embodiment and the social

On Violence: 4th International Rethinking Humanities and Social Science Conference, Zadar, United Kingdom, 6/09/13
2013 | Conference paper | Author
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Contributors: Kevin McSorley
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Visceral militarisms

Critical War Studies conference, Sussex Centre for Conflict and Security Research, Brighton, United Kingdom, 11/09/13
2013 | Conference paper | Author
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Contributors: Kevin McSorley
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War and the body: militarisation, practice and experience

War, politics and experience
2013 | Edited book | Editor
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ISBN: 9780415692151
Contributors: Kevin McSorley
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Helmetcams, militarized sensation and 'Somatic War'

Journal of War & Culture Studies
2012 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1386/jwcs.5.1.47_1
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 72636
Contributors: Kevin McSorley
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War and the Body: Cultural and military practices

Journal of War & Culture Studies
2012-09-07 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1386/jwcs.5.1.3_7
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 73209
Contributors: Kevin McSorley; Sarah Maltby
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War and embodiment

Journal of War and Cultural Studies
2012-06-12 | Journal article | Editor
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Contributors: Kevin McSorley; Sarah Maltby
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War and the Body Exhibition

2010-06-13 | Artistic output or performance
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The reality of war? politics written on the body

New Statesman
2010-06-07 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Kevin McSorley
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Violence and social theory

9th European Sociological Association conference, Lisbon University, 2/09/09
2009-09 | Conference paper | Author
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Social theory, mobility and immobility

European Sociological Association Research Network Conference: Social Theory and the Sociological Discipline(s), Innsbruck University, 11/09/08
2008-09 | Conference paper | Author
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Review essay: the mark of Cain: war, media and morality

The War and Media Network
2007 | Journal article | Author
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