Four assumptions frequently arise in the aftermath of mass shootings in the United States:(1)
that mental illness causes gun violence,(2) that psychiatric diagnosis can predict gun …

Drawing from 26 life story interviews of recent American veterans, this paper analyzes the
identity struggle faced by soldiers returning from Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation …

In 2000, the US passed a major aid package that was going to help Colombia do it all: cut
drug trafficking, defeat leftist guerrillas, support peace, and build democracy. More than 80 …

This article probes the contradictions and unacknowledged risks inherent in the notion of
citizenship today. We explore the possible fault lines that citizenship places on the notion of …

Feminist scholarship on war and militarization has typically focussed on the making of
militarized masculinity. However, in this article, we shed light on the process of …

As digital technologies and algorithmic rationalities have increasingly reconfigured security
practices, critical scholars have drawn attention to their performative effects on the …

Establishing contacts and gaining permission to conduct ethnographic or qualitative
research can be time-consuming and stressful processes. Gaining access can be especially …

As an analytic and an object of study, disability provides a powerful lens to refocus and
potentially transform thinking about new and enduring concerns shaping contemporary …

Under the banner of martial empiricism, we advance a distinctive set of theoretical and
methodological commitments for the study of war. Previous efforts to wrestle with this most …

Sacrificial Limbs chronicles the everyday lives and political activism of disabled veterans of
Turkey's Kurdish war, one of the most volatile conflicts in the Middle East. Through nuanced …