Military presences, civilian absences: Battling nature at the Sennybridge Training Area, 19402008
Military presences, civilian absences: Battling nature at the Sennybridge Training Area, 19402008
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DOI：
10.1386/jwcs.3.2.215_1
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发表时间：
2010-09
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0.4
通讯作者：
T. Cole
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作者：
T. Cole
摘要本文从环境史学的角度对军事与技术之间的关系进行了重新定位。它评估了伍德沃德(2001)卡其布保护所称的军事主张，即通过国防部(MoD)位于威尔士高地的森尼布里奇训练区(Senta)的案例研究，军事土地使用通过使用化肥和杀虫剂技术防止了集约农业对环境更具破坏性的做法。在这里，军事环保主义讲述了一个与流离失所的平民所表达的截然不同的故事。这篇文章梳理了国防部提出的军事环保主义的论述，但也超越了这些公开发表的声明，考虑了私下讲述的故事，并试图评估军事主张的有效性。森塔土地使用的复杂性表明，尽管军方的言辞仍在继续，但它仍在继续与被认为不合时宜的自然作斗争。
Abstract This article draws upon environmental history perspectives to reframe the relationship between the military and technology. It assesses military claims dubbed by Woodward (2001) khaki conservation that military land use has prevented the more environmentally damaging practices of intensive agriculture with its use of technologies of fertilizers and pesticides, through a case study of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) Sennybridge Training Area (SENTA) in upland Wales. Here military environmentalism has told a very different story from that articulated by displaced civilians. The article teases out the discourses of military environmentalism presented by the MoD, but also moves beyond these publicly articulated statements to consider the story told in private and seeks to assess the validity of military claims. The complex nature of land use at SENTA points to the military despite its rhetoric continuing its own battle against nature deemed out of place.