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100 1 _aAbu El-Haj, Nadia,
_eauthor.
_9752889
245 1 0 _aCombat trauma:
_bimaginaries of war and citizenship in post-9/11 America
246 3 0 _aImaginaries of war and citizenship in post-9/11 America
260 _aLondon, UK:
_aNew York, USA:
_bVerso,
_c2022.
264 4 _c©2022
300 _a337p.
_c24 cm
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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365 _b20.00
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aPsychiatry as radical critique : "post-Vietnam syndrome" -- The politics of victimization : feminism, the victims of crime movement, and reconstructing the war in Vietnam -- Soldier's trauma, revisited -- The politics of moral injury -- Caring for militarism -- The (American) civilian.
505 0 _aI. From agent to victim: Psychiatry as radical critique: "Post-Vietnam Syndrome" -- The Politics of victimization: feminism, the Victims of Crime Movement, and reconstructing the War in Vietnam -- II. 9/11 and its aftermath: Soldier's trauma, revisited -- The politics of moral inquiry -- III. Consripting citizens: Caring for militarism -- The (American) civilian -- Epilogue.
520 8 _aAmericans have long been asked to support the troops and care for veterans' psychological wounds. Who, though, does this injunction serve? As acclaimed scholar Nadia Abu El-Haj argues here, in the American public's imagination, the traumatized soldier stands in for destructive wars abroad, with decisive ramifications in the post-9/11 era. Across the political spectrum the language of soldier trauma is used to discuss American warfare, producing a narrative in which traumatized soldiers are the only acknowledged casualties of war, while those killed by American firepower are largely sidelined and forgotten. In this wide-ranging and fascinating study of the meshing of medicine, science, and politics, Abu El-Haj explores the concept of post-traumatic stress disorder and the history of its medical diagnosis. While antiwar Vietnam War veterans sought to address their psychological pain even as they maintained full awareness of their guilt and responsibility for perpetrating atrocities on the killing fields of Vietnam, by the 1980s, a peculiar convergence of feminist activism against sexual violence and Reagan's right-wing "war on crime" transformed the idea of PTSD into a condition of victimhood. In so doing, the meaning of Vietnam veterans' trauma would also shift, moving away from a political space of reckoning with guilt and complicity to one that cast them as blameless victims of a hostile public upon their return home. This is how, in the post-9/11 era of the Wars on Terror, the injunction to "support our troops," came to both sustain US militarism and also shields American civilians from the reality of wars fought ostensibly in their name. In this compelling and crucial account, Nadia Abu El-Haj challenges us to think anew about the devastations of the post-9/11 era.
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650 0 _aVeterans
_zUnited States
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650 0 _aPost-traumatic stress disorder
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650 0 _aVeterans
_xMental health
_zUnited States.
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650 0 _aCombat
_xPsychological aspects.
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650 0 _aVeterans
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_xSocial conditions.
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650 7 _aPost-traumatic stress disorder.
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650 7 _aVeterans
_xPsychology.
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_0(OCoLC)fst01165790
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650 7 _aVeterans
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650 7 _aStress
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650 7 _aViolence
651 0 _aUnited States
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651 0 _aUnited States
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651 7 _aUnited States.
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655 7 _aMilitary history.
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