The war comes home: the toll of war and the shifting burden of care

Howell, Alison; Wool, Zoë H.

doi:10.4337/9781849808927.00022

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“…The end of the Cold War brought with it a dramatic increase in the tempo and scope of Western military deployments as a result of the “new wars” of the 1990s (Kaldor, ) and the global war on terror after 2001. The impacts of overseas military deployments extend well beyond the battlefield and affect veterans' successful transition to social, economic, and familial life back at home (Howell & Wool, ). These recent wars have been associated with an increased prevalence of operational stress injuries (OSIs), such as traumatic brain injury (TBI), post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, depression, and other psychiatric challenges that interfere with daily functioning (Institute of Medicine, ; Veterans Affairs Canada, ).…”

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Operational Stress Injuries and the Mental Health and Well‐Being of Veteran Spouses: A Scoping Review

Norris

Eichler

Cramm

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J of Family Theo & Revie

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This article presents the results of a scoping review of literature focusing on the relationship between operational stress injuries (OSIs) in military veterans and spousal mental health and well‐being. Using elements of the family adjustment and adaptation response (FAAR) model as an organizing framework, the research reviewed focuses on the demands the OSIs place on the family system, as well as related capabilities and meanings, and how these demands have an impact on the spouse and the marital relationship.

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Operational Stress Injuries and the Mental Health and Well‐Being of Veteran Spouses: A Scoping Review

Norris

Eichler

Cramm

et al. 2018

J of Family Theo & Revie

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“…Rather, war lingers in and on the bodies and lifeworlds of those who have practiced it. Wars' experiences can be traced in the bodily movements and responses of those exposed to combat (MacLeish 2013); in the disabled and disfigured bodies of veterans (Wool 2015); and in the fragmenting of personal and familial relationships (see Howell and Wool 2016). In this article, we argue that in addition to wars' experiences being expressed in poetry, fiction, film and music, they can also be traced in the tattoos military service personnel ink into their skin.…”

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War Ink: Sense-Making and Curating War through Military Tattoos

Dyvik

Welland

2018

International Political Sociology

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Veterans have long sought to make sense of and capture their wartime experiences through a variety of aesthetic means such as novels, memoirs, films, poetry and art. Increasingly, scholars of IR are turning to these sources as a means to study war experience. In this article we analyze one such sense-making practice that has, despite its long association with war, largely gone unnoticed: military tattoos. We argue that military tattoos and the experiences they capture can offer a novel entry point into understanding how wars are made sense of and captured on the body. Focusing on a web archive-'War Ink'-curated and collected for and by US veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, we analyze how tattoos perform an important 'sense-making' function for participating veterans. We focus on three recurring themes-loss and grief, guilt and anger, and transformation and hope-demonstrating how military tattoos offer important insights into how military and wartime experience is traced and narrated on and through the body. The web archive, however, not only enables a space for veterans to make sense of their war experience through their tattoos, the archive also does important political work in curating the broader meaning of war to the wider public.

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“…In this case, the lived realities of British soldiers, both in the warscape and on their return home. The hypervisible liberal warrior is disconnected from the violence of counterinsurgency, both directly and indirectly targeted at the civilian population of Afghanistan, as well as removed from the ways in which the violence and trauma of the conflict 'comes home' (Howell and Wool 2016) with the counterinsurgents themselves.…”

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“…Alison Howell and Zoë Wool have explored the costs of the militarized response to 9/11 for US veterans and their families and have foundthat soldiers exposed to violent combat, intense human trauma, or who kill another person are more likely to engage in a wide array of risky behaviors, including alcohol abuse and verbal and physical aggression, putting both themselves and those around them in danger. (Howell and Wool, 2016: 252)…”

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Violence and the contemporary soldiering body

Welland

2017

Security Dialogue

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This article asks what is the significance of making the soldiering body (hyper)visible in war. In contrast to the techno-fetishistic portrayals of Western warfare in the 1990s, the recent counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan witnessed a re-centring of British soldiering bodies to the visual grammars of war. In the visibility of this body, violences once obscured were rendered viscerally visible on the bodies of British soldiers. Locating the analysis in the War Story exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, London, the article details two moments of wartime violence experienced and enacted by British soldiers, tracking how violence was mediated in, on and through these hypervisible soldiering bodies and attending invisibility of 'other' bodies. The article argues that during the Afghanistan campaign, soldiers' bodies became not just enactors of military power, but crucial representational figures in the continuance of violent projects abroad and their acceptance back home. Unlike the high-technology wars waged by Western nations during the latter years of the twentieth century, for the British public at home watching the recent Afghanistan conflict unfold via a range of mediums, British soldiering bodies, as well as the violences inflicted on them, was central to the war's depiction. In this article I use the concept of hypervisibility to describe this heightened 'seen-ness' of British soldiering bodies during the conflict 1 (and attending invisibility of other bodies), and argue this was crucial both for how wartime violences were mediated and understood, and for putting in place the conditions of possibility for their continuation.

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The war comes home: the toll of war and the shifting burden of care

Cited by 11 publications

References 8 publications

Operational Stress Injuries and the Mental Health and Well‐Being of Veteran Spouses: A Scoping Review

Operational Stress Injuries and the Mental Health and Well‐Being of Veteran Spouses: A Scoping Review

War Ink: Sense-Making and Curating War through Military Tattoos

Violence and the contemporary soldiering body

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