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



Holder, Alexander, Elsey, Chris, Kolanoski, Martina and Mair, Michael ORCID: 0000-0003-0929-5426
(2022) Investigating the Use of Force in Contemporary Conflict: Researching Military Operations with Audio, Video and Transcript Data. In: Investigative Methods: An NCRM Innovation Collection. National Centre for Research Methods,Southampton.

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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: Book Section
Divisions: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Law and Social Justice
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 13 Apr 2022 14:29
Last Modified: 18 Jan 2023 21:05
DOI: 10.5258/NCRM/NCRM.00004546
Open Access URL: https://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/id/eprint/4546/
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3152866