Conflict veterans : discourses and living contexts of an emerging social group / edited by Michael Daxner, Marion Näser-Lather and Silvia-Lucretia Nicola.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daxner, Michael

Contributor:

Daxner, Michael, editor.

Näser-Lather, Marion, editor.

Nicola, Silvia-Lucretia, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Veterans--Social conditions.

Veterans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 181 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2018]

Summary:

Returnees from wars and violent conflicts belong to their societies as much as any other distinct social group. In an age of asymmetric warfare and highly ambiguous profiles of combat, the veterans' position is changing and is less clear than in the past. Veterans are either marginalized or considered a social and political precarity; their self-perception and identity are often burdened with uncertain return into their societies.This volume brings together experts on veteran studies from various academic disciplines. Their views present a variety of sociological, anthropological, and military aspects on the lives and environments of contemporary veteran cultures.Based on findings from the first contemporary congress on returnees from diverse wars and interventions held in Germany in July 2016, the contributions here compare the situations of veterans and their perception by society in different countries. The main focus falls on the so far under-researched German "particular path" into the normalcy of producing and then having veterans who, as a new, emerging social group, start to build up their own associations and culture, and gain political and socio-cultural power of interpretation. This process forms a contrast to those veteran cultures that can build on long and seemingly less broken traditions.

Contents:

Introduction / Michael Daxner, Marion Näser-Lather and Silvia-Lucretia Nicola

Part I: Experiences. Off war: PTSD treatment in the U.S. and German armed forces / Tim Kucharzewski ; From warforce to workforce: Danish veterans' career changes / Birgitte Refslund Sørensen

Part II: Recognition. They have returned and are here to stay: new veteran organisations in Germany and their struggle for recognition / Eva Baumgärtner and Philipp Schultheiss ; Getting-even with the state: Serbian war veterans suing a country officially never at war / Maria Vivod ; Competing with the dead hero: the German particular way / Michael Daxner

Part III: Framing and Conceptualisation. Impeded heroes: on the (self-)perception of German veterans / Marion Näser-Lather ; "We are heroes": the homogenising glorification of the memories of the Soviet-Afghan War in present Russia / Michael Galbas ; "I don't belong here anymore": homeland as an uncomfortable space for war veterans in Irwin Winkler's Home of the brave / Tatiana Porokova.

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ISBN:

1-5275-2235-0

OCLC:

1076879208