'Deterrence can be boring': boredom, gender, and absence in Britain's Cold War military
'Deterrence can be boring': boredom, gender, and absence in Britain's Cold War military
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“威慑可能很无聊”：冷战时期英国军队的无聊、性别和缺席
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10.1080/23337486.2022.2110697
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2022
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Huxford G
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无聊是西欧冷战经历的一个组成部分，在这场长期冲突中，无聊的表现和管理是关键的政治、军事和社会考虑因素，特别是对军队来说。本文使用60多个原始的口述历史访谈（个人和团体）与广泛的前居民的英国军事基地在西德国，探讨军事化社区内的无聊的存在和发音。士兵中的无聊现象得到了广泛的承认、表达和管理，但无聊也通过盛行的性别和社会等级制度折射出来，允许表达特定形式的无聊，同时让其他人沉默。通过对军人的无聊和军人妻子的证词的研究，本文不仅表明无聊需要包括在冷战的社会历史中-更广泛的冲突-但我们必须理解无聊作为一种嵌入在特定历史背景下的社会现象。它的表达深受文化和社会规范的影响，特别是对于有限的“代理”群体，对寻找其痕迹的历史研究人员具有长期影响。本文最后提出了口述历史可以解决军事化无聊的生产方式，以及无聊的学者可以从口述历史实践中学到什么。
Boredom was an integral part of Cold War experience in western Europe and its manifestations and management were key political, military and social considerations during this long conflict, for militaries in particular. Using over 60 original oral history interviews (both individual and group) with a wide range of former residents of British military bases in West Germany, this article explores the presence and articulation of boredom within militarized communities. Its existence among soldiers was widely acknowledged, expressed and managed, but boredom was also refracted through prevailing gender and social hierarchies, permitting particular forms of boredom to be expressed, while silencing others. Through an examination of both soldierly boredom and the testimonies of military wives, this article suggests not only that boredom needs to be included in social histories of the Cold War – and conflict more broadly – but that we must understand boredom as a social phenomenon embedded within specific historic contexts. Its articulation is deeply affected by cultural and societal norms, particularly for groups with limited ‘agency’, with long-term implications for historical researchers looking for its traces. This article finishes by suggesting productive ways in which oral history can address militarized boredom and what, in turn, scholars of boredom might learn from oral history practices.