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Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics

Unconventional Combat

Intersectional Action in the Veterans' Peace Movement

Messner, Michael A. (Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, University of Southern California)

Unconventional Combat

Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics

Unconventional Combat

Intersectional Action in the Veterans' Peace Movement

Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics: Unconventional Combat

 

In Unconventional Combat, Michael A. Messner illuminates the current generational transformation of the US veterans' peace movement, from one grounded mostly in the experiences of older, White men of the Vietnam War era, to one increasingly driven by a young, diverse cohort of post-9/11 veterans.


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In recent decades, there has been a generational shift of the US veterans' peace movement, from one grounded mostly in the experiences of older white men of the Vietnam War era, to one informed by a young, diverse cohort of post-9/11 veterans. In Unconventional Combat, Michael A. Messner traces this transformation through the life-history interviews of six veterans of color to show how their experiences of sexual and gender harassment, sexual assault, racist and homophobic abuse during their military service has shaped their political views and action. Drawing upon participant observation with the Veterans For Peace and About Face organizations and interviews with older male veterans as his backdrop, Messner shows how veterans' military experiences form their collective "situated knowledge" of intersecting oppressions. This knowledge, Messner argues, further shapes their intersectional praxis, which promises to transform the veterans' peace movement and potentially link their anti-militarist work with other movement groups working for change. As intersectionality has increasingly become central to the conversation on social movements, Unconventional Combat is not only a story about the US veterans' peace movement, but it also offers broad relevance to the larger world of social justice activism.


ISBN
9780197573631
Pagina's
184
Verschenen
Serie
Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics
NUR
741
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP USA

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