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War and Fun: Reconceptualizing Warfare and Its Experience (WARFUN)

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Blog post | May 2025

International Joking Relationships

Eva Johais (2025)
(Public Anthropologist)
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https://publicanthropologist.cmi.no/2025/05/21/international-joking-relationships/

What can soldier humour tell us about international relations? This blogpost examines the self-conception of German soldiers and the relationships to members of other armed forces through a focus on joking in multinational settings.

Read more:
https://publicanthropologist.cmi.no/2025/05/21/international-joking-relationships/

Eva Johais

Post Doctoral Researcher
  • eva.johais@cmi.no

War and Fun: Reconceptualizing Warfare and Its Experience (WARFUN)

Apr 2021 - Mar 2026
  • Conflict
  • Soldier humour
  • International relations

Also from this project:

CMI Insight | Feb 2025

Fun, Violence, and Survival in Boko Haram

Luigi Achilli

Journal Article | Feb 2025

Playing war: Norwegian soldiers’ experiences of fun and responsibility in Afghanistan

Mogstad, Heidi

War & Society

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Sudan Working Paper | Jul 2025

Climate Change, Conflicts and Food Security in North Darfur State, Sudan: Risks and Implications

Elamin Akoy, Adam Sabbil, Mohammed B. Altoom, Salih Nurain, Emad Eldeen Salim

Sudan Working Paper | Jul 2025

Digital warfare: Exploring the influence of social media in propagating and counteracting hate speech in Sudan’s conflict landscape

Hind Abbas Hilmi Ibrahim

Blog post | Jun 2025

“Be My Guest”: Trust as Economic Capital in Sudanese Displacement | African Arguments

Abdelmageed Yahya, Mari Norbakk

Journal Article | Apr 2025

‘There is No Compulsion in Marriage’. Divorce and Gendered Change in Afghanistan during the Islamic Republic

Torunn Wimpelmann, Masooma Saadat

British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies

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