Violence as Work: Ethnomethodological Insights Into Military Combat Operations

Objective: The objective of this article is to outline an ethnomethodological approach to the study of professionalized violence or violence as work. It focuses primarily on violence in the context of military combat operations and the "situational" analyses and assessments military person...

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