Denne artikel vil med udgangspunkt i Danmarks krigsveteraner fra 1848 og til i dag forholde sig til en række grundspørgsmål vedrørende krigsveteraner og deres interaktion med det omgivende samfund. ...Spørgsmålene stilles med udgangspunkt i den internationale veteranforskning og dennes grundlæggende erkendelser. Der fokuseres særligt på veteranernes selvbillede og italesættelse, herunder på hvordan og i hvilket omfang begrebet krigsveteraner er blevet brugt i veteranernes selvbeskrivelse, samt hvilke alternative begreber, som har været anvendt. Desuden studeres skiftende foreningsdannelser, disse udspring, historie og gennemslagskraft, samt hvilke dagsordener skiftende veteranorganisationer har haft. Der skelnes her mellem pleje af medlemmernes økonomiske velfærd, ønsket om offentlig anerkendelse og accept, samt mere generelle politiske dagsordener, som eksempelvis at understøtte forsvarspolitikken eller værne om danskheden i Sønderjylland.
Denne artikel tager afsæt i en undersøgelse af, hvordan støtteprocesser i en lokalforankret støtteforening kan styrke krigsveteraner med PTSD og/eller andre psykiske vanskeligheder i at opnå øget ...sundhed. Artiklen omhandler den del af undersøgelsen, der forholder sig til veteranernes identitet og selvopfattelse, samt hvordan disse påvirkes af den offentlige mening og debat. Ligeledes er der i artiklen fokus på foreningens initiativer, og hvilken betydning de har for veteranernes adgang til anden støtte og behandling.
The military is an arena in which strong ideals regarding masculinity are enforced, with the soldier often portrayed as a model of hegemonic masculinity in the USA. Men who adopt an anti-war ...position, which may directly conflict with positions taken by the military as an organization, may be particularly challenged in the renegotiation of their masculine identity upon re-entry to civilian life. This study employs Burke and Stets' Identity Theory (2009) and Connell's hegemonic masculinity (2005) to examine masculine identity among a group of 26 veterans. Using data from in-depth interviews with 26 former military personnel that now claim an anti-war position, the study explores how masculinity is (re)negotiated among these men. The findings include respondents' description of masculinity before and after adopting an 'anti-war' identity, as well as variations in masculinity among our respondents. Specifically, we found three types of masculinity among respondents. The masculinity scripts within these typologies, as well as patterns occurring within each type are presented and best explained by social status giving some men more freedom to protest the hegemonic ideal.
The article focuses on five essential phenomena in the Finnish memory culture relating to the three Finnish wars fought in 1939-1945, namely, (1) the memory of the fallen; (2) the influential work by ...author Väinö Linna; (3) the contested memory politics and veteran cultures in the 1960s and 1970s; (4) Germany and the Holocaust in the Finnish memory culture; and (5) the 'neo-patriotic' turn in the commemoration of the wars from the end of the 1980s onwards. The Finnish memory culture of 1939-1945 presents an interesting case of how the de facto lost wars against the Soviet Union have been shaped into cornerstones of national history and identity that continue to play a significant role even today. Using the growing research literature on the various aspects of the Finnish war memories and memory politics, the article aims, first, at outlining a synthesis of the memory culture's central features and, second, at challenging the common contemporary conception, according to which the Finnish war veterans would have been forgotten, neglected and even disgraced during the post-war decades, to be 'rehabilitated' only from the end of the 1980s onwards.
This edited volume provides a comprehensive and critical review of what we know about military service and the life course, what we don't know, and what we need to do to better understand the role of ...military service in shaping people's lives. It demonstrates that the military, like colleges and prisons, is a key social institution that engages individuals in early adulthood and shapes processes of cumulative (dis)advantage over the life course. The chapters provide topical synthesizes of the vast but diffuse research literatures on military service and the life course, while the volume as a whole helps to set the agenda for the next generation of data collection and scholarship. Chapter authors pay particular attention to how the military has changed over time; how experiences of military service vary across cohorts and persons with different characteristics; how military service affects the lives of service members' spouses, children, and families; and the linkages between research and policy.
Using ethnographic vignettes of three American soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, this article proposes an analytics of movement through which to apprehend experiences of ontological ...transformation brought about by the many violences of service in a combat zone. I juxtapose a range of experiences of movement to explore the subjective experience of certain kinds of bodies as they move, see, and are seen to move in certain kinds of spaces. In the case of American soldiers who have been marked by their experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan, this approach is a displacement of post-traumatic stress disorder, the dominant frame for understanding soldiers' post-combat transformations. In its stead, the analytics of movement offers a sense of the vertiginous new worlds soldiers inhabit, which suggests ontology, rather than pathology, as the ground for understanding the matter of US soldiers' being after combat.
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