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|Author(s)=Michael Mair; Patrick G. Watson; Chris Elsey; Paul Vincent Smith;
 
|Author(s)=Michael Mair; Patrick G. Watson; Chris Elsey; Paul Vincent Smith;
|Title=War-making and sense-making: some technical reflections on an instance of `friendly fire'
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|Title=War-making and sense-making: some technical reflections on an instance of “friendly fire”
|Tag(s)=Ethnomethodology;friendly fire;warfare;accidents;risk;blame; EMCA
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|Tag(s)=friendly fire; warfare; accidents; risk; blame; EMCA
 
|Key=Mair2012
 
|Key=Mair2012
|Publisher=Wiley-Blackwell
 
 
|Year=2012
 
|Year=2012
|Month=mar
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|Month=March
|Journal=The British Journal of Sociology
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|Journal=British Journal of Sociology
 
|Volume=63
 
|Volume=63
 
|Number=1
 
|Number=1
 
|Pages=75–96
 
|Pages=75–96
|URL=http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2011.01394.x
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|URL=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2011.01394.x/abstract
 
|DOI=10.1111/j.1468-4446.2011.01394.x
 
|DOI=10.1111/j.1468-4446.2011.01394.x
|Abstract=In this paper we analyse a ‘friendly fire’ incident from the second GulfWar and the
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|Abstract=In this paper we analyse a ‘friendly fire’ incident from the second Gulf War and the controversy which came to envelop it during a coroner's inquest in 2007. Focusing on the cockpit video of the incident that was leaked to the media during that inquest, we examine what the military and civilian investigators were involved in reconstructing: the incident as it unfolded in real time. Our analysis is grounded in a praxeological perspective that draws on and links ethnomethodological studies of work, research into ‘normal’ accidents, disasters and risks, and recent ethnographies of the military. Based on our analysis, we suggest that the accounts offered after the event by the military and civilian inquiries should be treated less as competing descriptions than different ways of problematizing particular aspects of the military–political ‘machineries’ the pilots' actions were enmeshed within.
controversy which came to envelop it during a coroner’s inquest in 2007. Focusing
 
on the cockpit video of the incident that was leaked to the media during that
 
inquest, we examine what the military and civilian investigators were involved in
 
reconstructing: the incident as it unfolded in real time.Our analysis is grounded in
 
a praxeological perspective that draws on and links ethnomethodological studies
 
of work, research into ‘normal’ accidents, disasters and risks, and recent ethnog-
 
raphies of the military. Based on our analysis, we suggest that the accounts offered
 
after the event by the military and civilian inquiries should be treated less as
 
competing descriptions than different ways of problematizing particular aspects of
 
the military–political ‘machineries’ the pilots’ actions were enmeshed within.
 
 
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Mair2012
BibType ARTICLE
Key Mair2012
Author(s) Michael Mair, Patrick G. Watson, Chris Elsey, Paul Vincent Smith
Title War-making and sense-making: some technical reflections on an instance of “friendly fire”
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Tag(s) friendly fire, warfare, accidents, risk, blame, EMCA
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Year 2012
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Journal British Journal of Sociology
Volume 63
Number 1
Pages 75–96
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DOI 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2011.01394.x
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Abstract

In this paper we analyse a ‘friendly fire’ incident from the second Gulf War and the controversy which came to envelop it during a coroner's inquest in 2007. Focusing on the cockpit video of the incident that was leaked to the media during that inquest, we examine what the military and civilian investigators were involved in reconstructing: the incident as it unfolded in real time. Our analysis is grounded in a praxeological perspective that draws on and links ethnomethodological studies of work, research into ‘normal’ accidents, disasters and risks, and recent ethnographies of the military. Based on our analysis, we suggest that the accounts offered after the event by the military and civilian inquiries should be treated less as competing descriptions than different ways of problematizing particular aspects of the military–political ‘machineries’ the pilots' actions were enmeshed within.

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