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Ethnographic fieldwork in contexts of war and massive political change has revealed the ways violence produces acute feelings of uncertainty in the lives of our interlocutors. Other research has interrogated modes of techno-scientific expertise deployed to manage uncertain futures. This article, by contrast, argues that violence itself may serve as a technique of uncertainty management, as states, citizens, and spouses alike enact ‘mano dura’ or iron fist crackdowns on disruptive and disobedient bodies – and aspirations. Approaching violence as a technique of uncertainty management reveals the broader political-economic and (geo)political dimensions of interpersonal violence, with implications for analysing violent efforts to enforce social and political order on multiple scales. Further, it illuminates the centrality of intimacy to forms of violence that are seemingly divorced from the ‘intimate’ realm. By attending to a broader conceptualization of ‘mano dura’ as a technique of uncertainty management, this article links ethnographic fieldwork on violence to the methodological, ethical, and epistemological issues raised by ethnographic fieldwork amid violence. Across these intertwined stories, of fieldwork, politics, and the personal, I examine efforts to violently manage uncertain futures with the closed fist that promises – even if it cannot deliver – a defined future, relieved of disorder.
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159002
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147930
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There is no doubt that publication of a new EU foreign policy and security strategy was long overdue. Thirteen years have passed since the publication of the EU Security Strategy, which was adopted by the EU of 15 member states. Since then the EU has grown in size, its membership has almost doubled; its geostrategic centre has shifted towards the centre of the continent and the EU’s External Action Service has been established. It also goes without saying that we are in a manifestly different political reality in the EU and in the world today than we were 13 years ago. It is naturally far from ideal that the European Global Strategy was published a day after the British voters opted in favour of leaving the EU, but no timing is ever ideal and I have no doubt that, whilst the exact format remains to be determined, the UK will remain involved in EU security and foreign policy.
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