Caddick, Nick and Bulmer, Sarah and Davies, Katie and Jackson, David and Duggan, James and Patel, Shreepali (2025) Film, narrative agency, and the politics of care in veteran Britain. Review of International Studies. pp. 1-18. ISSN 0260-2105
Type of Research: | Article |
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Creators: | Caddick, Nick and Bulmer, Sarah and Davies, Katie and Jackson, David and Duggan, James and Patel, Shreepali |
Description: | Film offers untapped potential for making critical interventions in world politics, particularly in ways that harness people’s capacity to narrate stories that creatively empower their communities. Combining International Relations scholarship on visual politics with narrative theory and feminist scholarship on care, this paper presents film as a means of exploring and expressing narrative agency; that is, the power to tell stories that represent people’s experiences in ways that disrupt hegemonic narratives. Dialectics of care and narrative agency are explored in the context of military-to-civilian ‘transition’ in Britain. We argue that the landscape of transition for military veterans is dominated by a preoccupation with employment and economic productivity, resulting in a ‘care deficit’ for veterans leaving the military. Through the Stories in Transition project, which used co-created film to explore narrative agency in the context of three veterans’ charities, we argue that the act of making care visible constitutes a necessary intervention in this transitional landscape. Grounding this intervention within feminist care ethics and the related notion of care aesthetics, we highlight the potential for film to reveal in compelling audio-visual narratives an alternative project of transition which might better sustain life and hope in the aftermath of military service. |
Official Website: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-international-studies/article/abs/film-narrative-agency-and-the-politics-of-care-in-veteran-britain/533594F7AECB197B1BD894D2124C3293 |
Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: | storytelling, narrative, film, narrative agency, veterans, transition, co-creation |
Publisher/Broadcaster/Company: | Cambridge University Press |
Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > London College of Communication |
Date: | 29 April 2025 |
Funders: | Arts and Humanities Research Council |
Digital Object Identifier: | 10.1017/S0260210525000245 |
Date Deposited: | 02 Jun 2025 13:23 |
Last Modified: | 02 Jun 2025 13:23 |
Item ID: | 24168 |
URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/24168 |
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