War and Fun: Reconceptualizing Warfare and Its Experience

Project Information

WARFUN

Grant agreement ID: 101001106

DOI

10.3030/101001106

Project closed

EC signature date 22 February 2021

Start date 1 April 2021

End date 31 March 2026

Funded under

EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 999 340,00

EU contribution

€ 1 999 340,00

1 999 340,00

Coordinated by

CHR MICHELSENS INSTITUTT FOR VIDENSKAP OG ANDSFRIHET STIFTELSE
Norway

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Publications

Caught in the Crossfire: Unravelling the complex interplay of exploitation and agency in children associated with Boko Haram

Author(s): Luigi Achilli
Published in: Anti-Trafficking Review, 2024, Page(s) 12-33, ISSN 2287-0113
Publisher: Alliance Against Traffic in Women Foundation
DOI: 10.14197/atr.201224222

‘Unleash the hounds!’: NAFO’s memetic war narrative on the Russo-Ukrainian conflict

Author(s): Eva Johais, Mareike Meis
Published in: Critical Studies on Security, Issue 14, 2026, Page(s) 80-92, ISSN 2162-4887
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/21624887.2024.2395658

Entertainment and fun in the service of survival: Theatre of the People’s Liberation in the battles of Neretva and Sutjeska

Author(s): Iva Jelušić
Published in: War & Society, Issue 44, 2025, Page(s) 14-30, ISSN 0729-2473
Publisher: University of New South Wales
DOI: 10.1080/07292473.2024.2409537

Boko Haram’s ‘playground’: Exploring the role of fun among children associated with armed groups in Nigeria

Author(s): Luigi Achilli
Published in: War & Society, Issue 44, 2025, Page(s) 95-112, ISSN 0729-2473
Publisher: University of New South Wales
DOI: 10.1080/07292473.2024.2409533

The WARFUN taboo

Author(s): Eva Johais
Published in: War & Society, Issue 44, 2025, Page(s) 66-81, ISSN 0729-2473
Publisher: University of New South Wales
DOI: 10.1080/07292473.2024.2409538

“The Mood in General Was Like at a Football Match”: Entertainment and Fun during the People’s Liberation Struggle

Author(s): Iva Jelusic
Published in: Contributions to Contemporary History, Issue 65, 2025, ISSN 2463-7807
Publisher: Institut za novejso zgodovino
DOI: 10.51663/pnz.65.1.12

Forum: The Self-Realising Soldier: Post-Heroic Reflections from Norwegian Afghanistan Veterans by Heidi Mogstad

Author(s): Heidi Mogstad, Tine Molendijk, Noora Kotilainen, Jeni Hunniecutt, Heidi Mogstad
Published in: Public Anthropologist, Issue 6, 2024, Page(s) 79-124, ISSN 2589-1707
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1163/25891715-06010002

‘Playing war’: Norwegian soldiers’ experiences of fun and responsibility in Afghanistan

Author(s): Heidi Mogstad
Published in: War & Society, Issue 44, 2025, Page(s) 46-65, ISSN 0729-2473
Publisher: University of New South Wales
DOI: 10.1080/07292473.2024.2409539

Warfare with Songbooks

Author(s): Iva Jelusic
Published in: Connexe, Issue 9, 2023, Page(s) 158-163, ISSN 2673-2750
Publisher: Centre d’étude de la vie politique
DOI: 10.5077/journals/connexe.2023.e1400

Coda: the experience of war beyond exceptionalism

Author(s): Antonio De Lauri
Published in: War & Society, Issue 44, 2025, Page(s) 172-177, ISSN 0729-2473
Publisher: University of New South Wales
DOI: 10.1080/07292473.2024.2409534

Schlagfertigkeit. A soldier skill

Author(s): Eva Johais
Published in: Critical Military Studies, Issue 11, 2025, Page(s) 312-328, ISSN 2333-7486
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/23337486.2025.2472101

Introduction to the special issue: war and fun: exploring the plurality of experiences and emotional articulations of warfare and soldiering

Author(s): Antonio De Lauri, Luigi Achilli, Iva Jelušić, Eva Johais, Heidi Mogstad
Published in: War & Society, Issue 44, 2025, Page(s) 1-13, ISSN 0729-2473
Publisher: University of New South Wales
DOI: 10.1080/07292473.2024.2409532

Introduction: Naming the Unfathomable

Author(s): Lori Allen, Heidi Mogstad
Published in: Public Anthropologist, Issue 7, 2025, Page(s) 137-146, ISSN 2589-1707
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1163/25891715-07020002

BELA, THE ACTRESS

Author(s): Iva Jelusic
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Chr Michelsen Institute

Ina, the poet

Author(s): Iva Jelusic
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Chr Michelsen Institute

PARTISAN CIRCLE DANCES (PART 1)

Author(s): Iva Jelusic
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Chr Michelsen Institute

Brina, the contemporary dancer

Author(s): Iva Jelusic
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Chr Michelsen Institute

BOOK REVIEW: Roberto J. González. War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future

Author(s): Eva Johais
Published in: Public Anthropologist, 2022
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/25891715-bja10037

JOZA HORVAT'S PROTEST ASSEMBLY OF PARTISAN HORSES

Author(s): Iva Jelusic
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Chr Michelsen Institute

Raser etter Huitfeldt-uttalelse

Author(s): Antonio De Lauri, Heidi Mogstad
Published in: Dagbladet, 2022
Publisher: Dagbladet

Restraint in war: Why Norwegian soldiers have not been accused of war crimes in Afghanistan

Author(s): Heidi Mogstad
Published in: 2026
Publisher: CMI

JOZA HORVAT'S TOMCAT UNDER THE HELMET (PART 2): ON THE HOME GUARD

Author(s): Iva Jelusic
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Chr Michelsen Institute

The self-realising soldier

Author(s): Heidi Mogstad
Published in: Public Anthropologist blog, 2023
Publisher: Public Anthropologist

‘No laughter, no war’

Author(s): Eva Johais
Published in: Public Anthropologist blog, 2023
Publisher: Public Anthropologist

IRENA, THE ACTRESS

Author(s): Iva Jelusic
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Chr Michelsen Institute

Gendered Military Satire in Norway

Author(s): Heidi Mogstad
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Chr Michelsen Institute

Mira, the ballet dancer

Author(s): Iva Jelusic
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Chr Michelsen Institute

Fun, Violence, and Survival in Boko Haram

Author(s): Luigi Achilli
Published in: 2025
Publisher: CMI

The Idea of a Clean and Efficient War Is a Dangerous Lie

Author(s): Antonio De Lauri
Published in: Common Dreams, 2022
Publisher: Common Dreams

"""ARE YOU HEADING TO THE FUN ZONE?"": NOTES FROM THE POLISH-UKRAINIAN BORDER"

Author(s): Heidi Mogstad
Published in: Allegra Lab, 2022
Publisher: Allegra Lab

Joke Wars

Author(s): Eva Johais
Published in: 2025
Publisher: CMI

PARTISAN CIRCLE DANCES (PART 3)

Author(s): Iva Jelusic
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Chr Michelsen Institute

Soldiering in Germany

Author(s): Eva Johais
Published in: 2025
Publisher: CMI

International Joking Relations

Author(s): Eva Johais
Published in: 2025
Publisher: PUAN

"""NEW SONGS ARE SUNG IN THE VILLAGES IN WINTER EVENINGS, THE REPERTOIRE OF WHICH IS VERY RICH"" (PARTISAN CIRCLE DANCES, PART 4)"

Author(s): Aleksandar Zograf, Iva Jelusic
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Chr. Michelsen Insitute

JOZA HORVAT'S TOMCAT UNDER THE HELMET (PART 3): ON WOMEN

Author(s): Iva Jelusic
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Chr Michelsen Institute

Joža Horvat’s Tomcat under the Helmet (part 1): On Soldier Humor

Author(s): Iva Jelusic
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Chr Michelsen Institute

Between privilege and precarity: European soldiers remobilising as private security contractors in Africa. An interview with Jethro Norman

Author(s): Heidi Mogstad
Published in: Public Anthropologist blog, 2023
Publisher: Public Anthropologist

Myten om den anstendige krigen

Author(s): Antonio De Lauri, Heidi Mogstad
Published in: Agenda Magasin, 2022
Publisher: Agenda Magasin

Militarisation, racism and Russophobia: What the war in Ukraine produces and reveals

Author(s): Antonio De Lauri, Eva Johais, Iva Jelusic, Heidi Mogstad
Published in: Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies, 2022
Publisher: NCHS

BOOK REVIEW: Tone Danielsen: Making Warriors in a Global Era. An Ethnographic Study of the Norwegian Naval Special Operations Commando

Author(s): Heidi Mogstad
Published in: Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift, 2022
Publisher: Universitetsforlaget
DOI: 10.18261/nat.33.1.6

The Experience of War: The WARFUN Project

Author(s): Antonio De Lauri
Published in: European Dissemination - Project Repository Journal, Issue Vol. 14, 2022
Publisher: European Dissemination Media Agency

PARTISAN CIRCLE DANCES (PART 2)

Author(s): Iva Jelusic
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Chr Michelsen Institute

Neretva & Sutjeska in Horror and Magic of Individual Remembrances - research notes and late-night thoughts

Author(s): Iva Jelusic
Published in: Public Anthropologist blog, 2023
Publisher: Public Anthropologis

WARFUN Diaries Vol. 4

Author(s): Ed. by Antonio De Lauri
Published in: 2026
Publisher: CMI

WARFUN Diaries

Author(s): Edited by Antonio De Lauri
Published in: Issue Vol. 2, 2023
Publisher: ERC/CMI

WARFUN Diaries Vol. 2

Author(s): Edited by Antonio De Lauri
Published in: Issue Vol. 2, 2023
Publisher: CMI

WARFUN Diaries

Author(s): Edited by Antonio De Lauri
Published in: Issue Vol. 1, 2022
Publisher: ERC/CMI

WARFUN Diaries Vol. 3

Author(s): ed. by Antonio De Lauri
Published in: 2024
Publisher: CMI

“Unleash the hounds!“: Wenn Mems und andere Witzfiguren gegen Trolle in den digitalen Informationskrieg ziehen

Author(s): Eva Johais, Mareike Meis
Published in: Bilder des Krieges. Darstellung und Kommunikation des Krieges im Digitalen Zeitalter, 2023, Page(s) 172-203
Publisher: Büchner-Verlag

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