Veterans' homecomings: Secrecy and postdeployment social becoming

BR Sørensen - Current Anthropology, 2015 - journals.uchicago.edu
For Danish soldiers, returning from the battlefields and army camps of international
operations to the tranquility of everyday life at home can be a challenging and unsettling …

The plural of soldier is not troops: The politics of groups in legitimating militaristic violence

KM Millar - Security dialogue, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
This article identifies 'the troops' as a new, radically under-examined figure in the Western
canon of war. Utilising discourse analysis of an original corpus of US 'support the troops' …

From sorrow to activism: a father's memorial to his son Alexander Arredondo, killed in the US occupation of Iraq

L Pershing, NY Bellinger - Journal of …, 2010 - scholarlypublishingcollective.org
After his son Alexander was killed in the Iraq War, Carlos Arredondo created a memorial to
honor him. Using enlarged photographs, a coffin, and Alex's military uniform and boots …

Is It Un-American to Be Critical of Israel?

J Habib - America Observed: On an International Anthropology of …, 2016 - books.google.com
It is difficult to know why honest discussions about Israel have become so difficult to conduct.
Is it, perhaps, because the rise of the Christian right, no matter how ostensibly supportive of …

Looking at the Iraq War with 'Eyes Wide Open': Trauma, Memory and Ethics

CA Collins - Traumatic Imprints: Performance, Art, Literature and …, 2011 - brill.com
This chapter employs a cas e study of 'Eyes Wide Open'-US community memorial developed
by the American Friends Service Organization. The traveling exhibition promotes a …