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The heart, the backbone, the counterweight: Constructing relationships between military families, the military, and the nation in the UK Armed Forces Families Strategy

Abstract: There exists an established literature within critical military studies detailing how military welfare policies attempt to manoeuvre non-serving military spouses' …

War, social media and gender: An analysis of the use of TikTok by Ukrainian soldiers

Abstract: This article examines the intersection of war and gender through a visual analysis of TikTok videos depicting Ukrainian soldiers. Framed as the first TikTok war, the …

Understanding the military model of disability through the rulings of Colombia's Constitutional Court

Abstract: This article analyses rulings issued by the Colombian Constitutional Court between 1995 and 2022 regarding compensation for military veterans with acquired disabilities. …

Rethinking Veteran return trips from a relational perspective: Partner's role in challenging military discourses

Abstract: The voices of women with a military partner are often unheard in research on military deployments and their aftermath, even though partners are seen as key pillars of …

Raped, beaten and bruised: military institutional abuse, identity wounds and Veteran suicide

Abstract: The Australian government has recently established a Royal Commission on Defence and Veteran Suicide (DVSRC). Veteran suicide rates for those who have left the Australian …

From able-bodied soldier to disabled Veteran: Moral striving among Danish wounded Veterans

Abstract: In this article, we investigate the role of military identity in Danish wounded veterans' efforts to re-establish identity after trauma and come to terms with a disabled …

Voices of Veteran Researchers

Abstract: This article moves away from attempting to determine the meaning of the veteran’s voice in research, and instead reflect on the contingent and contextual emer-gence of …

Living war, writing war, teaching war

Abstract: What does it mean to be an academic who is also a war veteran? This paper examines that question as I delve into my own identity and positionality as a war veteran and as …

Proud to ‘fly a desk’ and wear a medal? Interrogations of military pride through the eyes of the RAF veteran

Abstract: Framed by the author’s status as a former Royal Air Force (RAF) service-person and subsequently as a critical sociologist, this article considers the performative role …

‘Can I Be Gay in the Army?’: British Army recruitment advertising to LGBTQ youth in 2017–18 and belonging in the queer military home

Abstract: In 2017, the British Army opened its ‘This is Belonging’ recruitment campaign, aimed at groups of young people who were considered traditionally less likely to join …

Bloody war: menstruation, soldiering, and the ‘gender-integrated’ United States military

Abstract: Against the backdrop of an unprecedented number of women deploying in a new array of roles in the so-called “global war on terror“ and the official opening of combat …

'Deeply odd': women veterans as critical feminist scholars

Abstract: A series of conversations between two women veterans triggered a realization that our military service had been 'deeply odd'. Jointly authored by a historian and a social …