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When soldiers at Fort Carson were charged with a series of 14 murders, PTSD and other "invisible wounds of war" were thrown into the national spotlight. With these events as their starting point, Jean Scandlyn and Sarah Hautzinger argue for a new approach to combat stress and trauma, seeing them not just as individual medical pathologies but as fundamentally collective cultural phenomena. Their deep ethnographic research, including unusual access to affected soldiers at Fort Carson, also engaged an extended labyrinth of friends, family, communities, military culture, social services, bureaucracies, the media, and many other layers of society. Through this profound and moving book, they insist that invisible combat injuries are a social challenge demanding collective reconciliation with the post-9/11 wars.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction Part I: Coming Home 1. Lethal Warriors at Home 2. Best Home Town in the Army 3. Doing Dirty Work 4. PTSD = Pulling the Stigma Down 5. Decentering PTSD Part II: The Supporting Cast 6. Codeswitching : So, why do you have frostbite? 7. This is Our Playground: Family Readiness Groups 8. Waiting to Serve 9. Appropriate Accommodation, or Exceptionalism for Supercitizens? 10. This Land is Not for Sale: Pinon Canyon and Army Expansionism Part III: Dialogue 11. You're Not a Victim, You're a Volunteer 12. Closing the Gaps: Seeking Civilian-Military Dialogue 13. Clueless Civilians and Others 14. The Day after Veterans Day: Listening to the Homefront Conclusion: Toward a Collective Reckoning with the Post-9/11 Wars
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Jean Scandlyn is Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Colorado Denver, USA.
Sarah Hautzinger is Professor and Chair in the Department of Anthropolgoy at Colorado College, USA.
Zusammenfassung
Argues for a new approach to combat stress and trauma that sees these "invisible wounds of war" not just as individual medical pathologies but as social phenomena demanding a collective reconciliation with the post-9/11 wars.
