Soldiering the equipment or equipping the soldier? Emergent Forms of Belgian Military Life: Innovation, Corporality and Technology. A Comparative Ethnographic Study of the NATO Frigate Helicopter and the Pathfinder Detachment. KU Leuven
This PhD, embedded in the blossoming field of military anthropology, studies how Belgian soldiers deal with (new) military technology, and how technological innovations redefine and reshape social socio-professional structures and relationships in low- and high-tech military settings. The latter were represented by two ethnographic case studies: the NATO Frigate Helicopter (NFH) and the Pathfinder Detachment.
Each military technology is ...