Zoë H. Wool (ed.)

Zoë H. Wool is an NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers University. Her current book manuscript, “Emergent Ordinaries: The Weight of Life at Walter Reed,” is based on her ethnographic research with grievously injured American soldiers.


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Soldier Exposures and Technical Publics

In this collaborative visual essay, we consider an idiosyncratic assemblage of pictures of American soldiers. These are not iconic images that “speak for themselves” but less conventional ones that suggest both the technical expertise involved in producing and managing war’s violence and the vulnerability of soldiers at the heart of war. In considering these images […]