Investigating the Use of Force in Contemporary Conflict: Researching Military Operations with Audio, Video and Transcript Data

Holder, Alexander and Elsey, Chris and Kolanoski, Martina and Mair, Michael (2022) Investigating the Use of Force in Contemporary Conflict: Researching Military Operations with Audio, Video and Transcript Data. Other. National Centre for Research Methods.

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Abstract

Using public domain video and/or audio-recordings, transcripts, internal reports and inquiries as data, the authors investigate specific and often highly controversial incidents in which Western militaries employ the use of force. Analysing the interactional organisation of such incidents as they unfold “ethnographically” (incorporating fieldnotes, interviews, biographical accounts and other relevant resources), their collaborative research examines the assessment of threats, the identification of combatants and the distinction between lawful and unlawful military action as interrelated and co-established features of that work. Of interest to social researchers but also military personnel, lawyers and campaigners, among others, this case study outline how they methodically investigate the use of force with reference to a particular case, the Uruzgan incident, using available interactional data and related resources while remaining alive to their very real limits.

Item Type: Working Paper (Other)
Subjects: 1. Frameworks for Research and Research Designs > 1.20 Secondary Analysis
Depositing User: NCRM users
Date Deposited: 03 Mar 2022 16:24
Last Modified: 10 Aug 2022 14:12
URI: https://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/id/eprint/4546
DOI: 10.5258/NCRM/NCRM.00004546

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