- Title:
- Violence (dis)located : on the spatial implications of violence on the western front during the First World War
- Creator:
- Schultz, Christopher Kenneth
- Date Created:
- 2010
- Degree Awarded:
- Master of Arts
- Subjects:
- Military history Armed forces Study and teaching
- Geographical Focus:
- Europe
- Supporting Materials:
- n/a
- Description:
- The trenches of the Western Front during the First World War were a space subordinated to the immense destructive capacities of industrial weaponry. Within the trench environment, however, competing discourses arose in relation to that space: those aimed at facilitating violence, those arising from being on the receiving end of violence, and also those which appropriated trench space in an act of dislocating violence from the self. This thesis explores these three central concerns first by examining the specific forms of violence prevalent on the Western Front, and then by exploring the soldiers’ competing—and at times paradoxical—interpretations of that violence to which they were exposed. The result is the articulation of a parallax, or rather the shifting of violence in war from active subject (and thus becoming a hellish agent) to passive object (and thus rendering violence mere spectacle or ornament).
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- Schultz, Christopher Kenneth. 2010. "Violence (dis)located : on the spatial implications of violence on the western front during the First World War", Department of History, Carleton University
- Link to this page:
- https://cuhistory.github.io/grads/items/hist_113.html
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright the author, all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.