Living Politics After War - Ex-Combatants and Veterans Coming Home

This book is about how former combatants live politics as they come home from war. Building on life histories from three very different wars, this book demonstrates how veteran identities, networks, war experiences and coming home experiences together make up a life of politics for former combatants.

List of contents

Introduction
1 Diverse wars and combatants
2 Coming home and living peace?
3 "Veteran" as a political identity
4 Veteran networks throughout a lifetime
5 Paths of mobilization
Conclusion

List of interviews
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Johanna Söderström is a Senior Lecturer in political science at the University of Uppsala

Product details

• Authors: Johanna Soderstrom, Johanna Söderström, Johanna Soederstroem
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781526144898
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4489-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: New Approaches to Conflict Analysis; New Approaches to Conflict Ana
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, HISTORY / Military / Veterans, Comparative Politics, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Military veterans, Peace studies & conflict resolution