Mirko Palestrino
@palestrinomirko.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in International Political Sociology @QMPoliticsIR | Military Sociology, Critical War Studies, IR Theory | Victory, Sociology of Time, War Bodies
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“’Sow the seeds of victory’: wartime gardening and the ontology of military victory“ by @palestrinomirko.bsky.social
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“’Sow the seeds of victory’: wartime gardening and the ontology of military victory“ by @palestrinomirko.bsky.social
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July 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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“’Sow the seeds of victory’: wartime gardening and the ontology of military victory“ by @palestrinomirko.bsky.social
t1p.de/ajj2p
“’Sow the seeds of victory’: wartime gardening and the ontology of military victory“ by @palestrinomirko.bsky.social
t1p.de/ajj2p
I’ll write a complaint ASAP!! Thx so much Ale!!!
May 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I’ll write a complaint ASAP!! Thx so much Ale!!!
8/8. For now, super thanks to Emanuele Sciandra, @mbarnfield.bsky.social Italo Brandimarte @tarsisbrito.bsky.social @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social Stefano Guzzini and Kim Hutchings. Thx also to participants to the 2024 @theorylab.bsky.social and @doingips.bsky.social ECR workshop at @qmul.ac.uk.
March 13, 2025 at 9:44 AM
8/8. For now, super thanks to Emanuele Sciandra, @mbarnfield.bsky.social Italo Brandimarte @tarsisbrito.bsky.social @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social Stefano Guzzini and Kim Hutchings. Thx also to participants to the 2024 @theorylab.bsky.social and @doingips.bsky.social ECR workshop at @qmul.ac.uk.
7/8. This might/might not be a prequel to a book on the making, temporalities, and sociologies of military victory which will be out in late 2025! Keep your eyes peeled for more on all things victory and time - esp. if you believe I might have, indeed, written a whole book on this.
March 13, 2025 at 9:40 AM
7/8. This might/might not be a prequel to a book on the making, temporalities, and sociologies of military victory which will be out in late 2025! Keep your eyes peeled for more on all things victory and time - esp. if you believe I might have, indeed, written a whole book on this.
6/8. But gardens also helped reinforce global social hierarchies along raced, classed, and gendered lines. We need to rethink victory, then, because by constraining the study of victory to fighting and diplomacy we fail to understand how war ends and with what social effects.
March 13, 2025 at 9:40 AM
6/8. But gardens also helped reinforce global social hierarchies along raced, classed, and gendered lines. We need to rethink victory, then, because by constraining the study of victory to fighting and diplomacy we fail to understand how war ends and with what social effects.
5/8. Attending to their relationship to time, however, I also demonstrate that victory gardens served to also mark the end of both wars. Indeed, they were one way in which governments successfully constructed clearly demarcated ‘wartime’ and ‘peacetime’.
March 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
5/8. Attending to their relationship to time, however, I also demonstrate that victory gardens served to also mark the end of both wars. Indeed, they were one way in which governments successfully constructed clearly demarcated ‘wartime’ and ‘peacetime’.
4/8. Victory gardens were virtually everywhere during the World Wars. Governments from all over the world fostered wartime gardening to enlist civilians to the war effort (esp. women) and counter food scarcity.
March 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
4/8. Victory gardens were virtually everywhere during the World Wars. Governments from all over the world fostered wartime gardening to enlist civilians to the war effort (esp. women) and counter food scarcity.
3/8. Victory practices are both martial and peaceful, military and civilian, and always temporal in nature. Wartime gardening is a great example.
March 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
3/8. Victory practices are both martial and peaceful, military and civilian, and always temporal in nature. Wartime gardening is a great example.
2/8. I argue that this understanding of victory is limited/misleading. A temporal marker, victory has little to do with warfighting and everything to do with what I call ‘victory practices’: parading, monuments, and other practices that convince audiences that a given war is over.
March 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
2/8. I argue that this understanding of victory is limited/misleading. A temporal marker, victory has little to do with warfighting and everything to do with what I call ‘victory practices’: parading, monuments, and other practices that convince audiences that a given war is over.
1/8. IR and War Studies - the two disciplines that are most concerned with the study of war - conceptualise victory as the outcome of conflict and the watershed moment between war and peace.
March 13, 2025 at 9:38 AM
1/8. IR and War Studies - the two disciplines that are most concerned with the study of war - conceptualise victory as the outcome of conflict and the watershed moment between war and peace.