2025-03-10

Call for Papers in the Topical Collection: "The role of technology in maintaining daily life in times of war"

This Topical Collection seeks to highlight the role of everyday technologies in helping people maintain a sense of normalcy and humanity during wartime and military conflicts. Despite frequent disruptions like air raid sirens and power outages, people display remarkable resilience in preserving daily routines (Kudina, 2024). While advanced military technologies, such as robots and AI, often dominate academic discourse on wartime, the use of various technologies to support civilian life during conflicts remains understudied.

This Topical Collection aims to explore the role of technologies in maintaining daily life during wars and military conflicts, how people invent new technologies and creatively repurpose existing ones to help support themselves and their social lives. This maintenance of normalcy is not a given, but rather a hard-fought achievement that merits academic attention. The collection emphasizes the importance of situated knowledge, multistability and the constant negotiation required to sustain daily life in conflict zones.