| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 174 pages) : color illustrations |
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Oxford studies in culture and politics |
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Oxford studies in culture & politics.
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| Contents |
Action at intersections: Wars, militarization, and veterans' peace movements -- Interlude 1: "It was all men" -- "I was in unconventional combat": Intersectional pathways through the military -- Interlude 2: Guys being guys -- "Rip off the band-aid": A new generation confronts the veterans' peace movement -- Interlude 3: "We cannot stand in fear" -- "Connecting the dots": From movement silos to intersectional coalitions -- Interlude 4: "Say it, mean it, and do something about it" -- "You've got to do something radical": Intersectional praxis in social movements |
| Summary |
"Unconventional Combat illuminates the current generational transformation of the U.S. veterans' peace movement, from one grounded mostly in the experiences of older, White men of the Vietnam War era, to one increasingly driven by a younger and much more diverse cohort of "Post 9/11" veterans. Participant observation with two organizations (Veterans For Peace, and About Face) and interviews with older men veterans form the backdrop for the book's main focus, life-history interviews with six younger veterans-all people of color, four of them women, one a Native Two-Spirit person, four of whom identify as queer. The book traces these veterans' experiences of sexual and gender harassment, sexual assault, racist and homophobic abuse during their military service (some of it in combat zones), centering on their collective "situated knowledge" of intersecting oppressions. As veterans, this knowledge shapes their intersectional praxis, which promises to transform the veterans' peace movement, and also holds the potential to provide a connective language through which veterans' anti-militarism work organically links them with movement groups working on racial justice, stopping gender and sexual violence, addressing climate change, and building national and international anti-colonial coalitions. This promise is sometimes thwarted by older veterans, whose activism includes a commitment to "diversity" that often falls short of creating and maintaining organizational space for full inclusion of previously marginalized "others." Intersectionality has increasingly become the analytic coin of today's emergent movement field, and the connective tissue of a growing coalitional politics. The younger, diverse group of veterans I focus on in this book are part of this larger shift in the social movement ecology, and they contribute a critical understanding of war and militarism to progressive coalitions"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed November 12, 2021) |
| Subject |
Peace movements -- United States -- History -- 21st century
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Veterans -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 21st century
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Discrimination in the military -- United States
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Harassment in the military -- United States
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Homophobia in the military -- United States
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Discrimination in the military.
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Harassment in the military.
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Homophobia in the military.
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Peace movements.
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Veterans -- Political activity.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020058609 |
| ISBN |
0197573665 |
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9780197573662 |
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9780197573679 |
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0197573673 |
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0197573657 |
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9780197573655 |
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