Michael A. Messner Unconventional Combat (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Unconventional CombatCondition: NewSubtitle: Intersectional Action in the Veterans' Peace MovementISBN-10: 0197573649EAN: 9780197573648ISBN: 9780197573648Publisher: Oxford University Press IncFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/30/2021Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 152mmItem Length: 231mmItem Width: 10mmItem Weight: 295gAuthor: Michael A. MessnerGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, Gender Sex & RelationshipsBook Series: Oxford Studies in Culture and PoliticsRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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