A Tender Witness’s Story of War: A Tale on the Road in Three Voices

IF 0.9 4区社会学 Q2 CULTURAL STUDIES

Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies Pub Date : 2024-01-22 DOI:10.1177/15327086241226692

Marta Gliniecka, Waldemar Lib, Lidia Marek

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Abstract

On February 24, 2022, we embarked on a war journey into the unknown, witnessing the war in Ukraine. Our contact with the war is mediated (mainly by the media), yet painful and saturated with extreme emotions. This article is an autoethnographic description of the experiences of this journey of three academics from Poland, a frontline country. The metaphor of the road is carried out by evocative autoethnography in terms of its symbolism of personal journey of each of us; nevertheless, it also unifies our experiences of war into one tender narrative. Embedded in the essence of our autoethnographic narrative of the war is a constant openness to new circumstances, the natural dynamics of action at the front and in the frontier country, and the constant search for and discovery of one’s own narrative identity. Each part of this path traveled is inscribed in the baggage of personal experience, a narrative of life in a frontier country, unification by the situation of witnessing the war, and the desire to express our resistance to it. It became a form of mental resistance, analysis, empathy, and concern which were our methods of struggle and a way of taking responsibility for the reality we witness. In the description, we used the “tender narrative” proposed in the texts of Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk.

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一个温柔的战争见证人的故事：三个声音讲述的路上的故事

2022 年 2 月 24 日，我们踏上了未知的战争之旅，目睹了乌克兰的战争。我们与战争的接触是中介性的（主要是通过媒体），但又是痛苦的，饱含着极端的情感。本文以自述的方式描述了来自前线国家波兰的三位学者的这次旅行经历。道路 "这一隐喻是通过令人回味的自述进行的，它象征着我们每个人的个人旅程；然而，它也将我们的战争经历统一为一个温情的叙事。在我们的战争自述中，蕴含着对新环境的不断开放、前线和边疆行动的自然动力，以及对自身叙事身份的不断寻找和发现。这条道路上的每一部分都铭刻着个人经历的包袱、边陲国家的生活叙事、目睹战争的境遇的统一，以及表达对战争抵抗的渴望。它成为一种精神抵抗、分析、同情和关注的形式，这是我们的斗争方式，也是我们对所见证的现实负责的一种方式。在描述中，我们使用了诺贝尔奖获得者奥尔加-托卡尔丘克（Olga Tokarczuk）文本中提出的 "温柔叙事"。

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Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies Multiple-

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期刊介绍： The mandate for this interdisciplinary, international journal is to move methods talk in cultural studies to the forefront, into the regions of moral, ethical and political discourse. The commitment to imagine a more democratic society has been sa guiding feature of cultural studies from the very beginnnig. Contributors to this journal understand that the discourses of a critical, moral methodology are basic to any effort to re-engage the promise of the social sciences and the humanities for democracy in the 21st Century. We seek works that connect critical emanicipatory theories to new forms of social justice and democratic practice are encouraged.