Weary Warriors

Power, Knowledge, and the Invisible Wounds of Soldiers
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78238-346-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 571 g

As seen in military documents, medical journals, novels, films, television shows, and memoirs, soldiers’ invisible wounds are not innate cracks in individual psyches that break under the stress of war. Instead, the generation of weary warriors is caught up in wider social and political networks and institutions—families, activist groups, government bureaucracies, welfare state programs—mediated through a military hierarchy, psychiatry rooted in mind-body sciences, and various cultural constructs of masculinity. This book offers a history of military psychiatry from the American Civil War to the latest Afghanistan conflict. The authors trace the effects of power and knowledge in relation to the emotional and psychological trauma that shapes soldiers’ bodies, minds, and souls, developing an extensive account of the emergence, diagnosis, and treatment of soldiers’ invisible wounds.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moss, Pamela

Prince, Michael J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Weary Warriors Walk Among Us: Combat, Knowledge Circulation, and Naming Traumatized Soldiers

Chapter 1. Ravished Minds and Ill Bodies: Power, Embodiment, Dispositifs

Chapter 2. Unsettling Notions: War Neuroses, Soldiering, and Broken Embodiments

Chapter 3. Classifying Bodies through Diagnosis: Knowledges, Locations, and Categorical Enclosures

Chapter 4. Managing Illness through Power: Regulation, Resistance and Truth Games

Chapter 5. Cultural Accounts of the Soldier as Subject: Folds, Disclosures and Enactments

Chapter 6. Fixing Soldiers: The Treatment of Bodies, Minds, and Souls

Chapter 7. The Soldier in Context: Psychiatric Practices, Military Imperatives, and Masculine Ideals

Chapter 8. Soldiering On: Care of Self, Status Passages, and Citizenship Claims

Chapter 9. Military Bodies and Battles Multiple: Embodied Trauma, Ontological Politics, and Patchwork Warriors

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Prince, Michael J.
Michael J. Prince is Lansdowne Professor of Social Policy at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He is author of Absent Citizens: Disability Politics and Policy in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2009), author and co-editor with Glen Toner and Leslie Pal of Policy: From Ideas to Implementation (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010), co-author with Bruce Doern of Three Bio-Realms (University of Toronto Press, 2012), and co-author with James Rice of Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy, 2nd edition (University of Toronto Press, 2013).

Moss, Pamela
Pamela Moss is a Professor in Human and Social Development at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She co-authored with Isabel Dyck of Women, Body, Illness (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), edited with Katherine Teghtsoonian Contesting Illness (University of Toronto Press, 2008), and wrote and edited with Karen Falconer Al-Hindi Feminisms in Geography (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008). She is working on a book manuscript about women’s tired bodies entitled Fatigue.

Pamela Moss is a Professor in Human and Social Development at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She co-authored with Isabel Dyck of Women, Body, Illness (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), edited with Katherine Teghtsoonian Contesting Illness (University of Toronto Press, 2008), and wrote and edited with Karen Falconer Al-Hindi Feminisms in Geography (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008). She is working on a book manuscript about women’s tired bodies entitled Fatigue.