Figuring Violence

Adelman, Rebecca A.

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“…Mediation, as Rebecca Adelman notes, 'encompasses various means of transmission and representation that enable audiences to experience and to imagine distant people, places, and phenomena.' 34 In the context of witnessing, mediation has often been figured as potentially problematic, rendering distant suffering into spectacle 35 or making witnessing ambivalent 36 through its simultaneously intimate and distant nature. But 'Again/Noch Einmal' is less interested in the presence of multiple media than how mediations take place, in the transition or translation from one informational state to another.…”

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Introduction: Affective Witnessing as Theory and Practice

Richardson

Schankweiler

2020

Parallax

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Introduction: Affective Witnessing as Theory and Practice

Richardson

Schankweiler

2020

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“…Emotional investment in soldiers' wounded psyches has long been a part of the anxiety, fantasy, concern, and alarm with which American civilians regard those who fight and die in their name, often confining soldiers and veterans to narrow scripts and stereotypes. This same investment, as Junger's words demonstrate, has also tended to deflect discussions of American militarism and empire into an uncritical politics of compulsory sentiment focused on individual servicemembers (Adelman, 2019;Millar, 2015;Wool, 2015).…”

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Moral Injury and the Psyche of Counterinsurgency

MacLeish

2021

Theory, Culture & Society

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Public and clinical interest in a condition called moral injury – psychological distress resembling posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) but said to originate from shame, guilt, or transgression in war experience – explicitly links moral, psychological, and political dimensions of war-making in the context of the US’s post-9/11 wars. This article critically analyzes moral injury’s politics of psychological suffering, which tends to treat morality as a universal and apolitical terrain, by reading it against soldier narratives of combat experience. American soldiers’ accounts of US military violence in Iraq and Afghanistan suggest that embodied, affective, and technical dimensions of military experience constitute their own moral worlds that do not necessarily conform to moral injury’s narratives of individual transgression. These accounts show that the US’s counterinsurgency techniques produce Orientalist framings of threat and violence but also volatile and ambivalent battlefield moralities that critically comment on the ostensibly liberal and humane techniques of US war-making.

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“I Don't Have to Do That Anymore Because I Got Therapy”: Recuperated Veterans and the Complexity of Mental Health Discourse at the End of the Forever War

Kieran

2024

Mod. Am. Hist.

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Memorial Day 2023 was a significant moment in twenty-first-century U.S. military history. Although U.S. service members remained deployed around the world and Operation Inherent Resolve continues to target the Islamic State (in April 2023, the U.S. military and its partners executed thirty-five missions against ISIS in Iraq and Syria alone), this year's celebrations came six weeks after the U.S. Senate repealed the two-decade-old Authorization for the Use of Military Force that had made possible the 2003 invasion of Iraq.1 It was also only the second Memorial Day since U.S. troops left Afghanistan, abruptly and somewhat disastrously, in August 2021. As a result, the holiday was arguably the first in which the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could be understood as having transitioned from “current events” to events whose legacies Americans were beginning to imagine and define.

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Figuring Violence

Cited by 29 publications

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Introduction: Affective Witnessing as Theory and Practice

Introduction: Affective Witnessing as Theory and Practice

Moral Injury and the Psyche of Counterinsurgency

“I Don't Have to Do That Anymore Because I Got Therapy”: Recuperated Veterans and the Complexity of Mental Health Discourse at the End of the Forever War

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