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Dear Colleagues,
Please distribute this CFP or consider submitting a paper to the panel
session on “military mobilities” at the European Association of Social
Anthropology (EASA) conference in Stockholm, August 14-17, 2018. A focus
of the panel is the mental health of soldiers and veterans. Please see
below for the panel abstract.
You can submit abstracts here:
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6706
Thank you,
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Alexander Edmonds
Professor of Social and Medical Anthropology
University of Edinburgh
+44 (0)131 650 9920 <0131%20650%209920>
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*Panel title: To the "front" and back "home" again: Military mobilities and
the social transitions they entail*
*Panel abstract*
War notoriously displaces civilian populations fleeing violence, ethnic
cleansing and disease. Soldiers and their families, though, undergo other
kinds of mobility that have been less researched. Soldiers sent from "home"
to the "front" move not just through space but also into a new social
reality. Some military families follow the movements of soldier partners
and parents; others are disrupted or broken by military mobilities. The
transition from soldier to veteran entails another journey requiring
attention to the practicalities of resettlement as well as navigation of
changing moral norms and rhythms of everyday life.
This panel critically examines these symbolically and politically charged
mobilities through ethnographies of veterans, soldiers, and military
families and institutions. The panel will examine questions, such as: What
socialities develop in military towns and communities, and how are they
shaped by movement to, and from, areas of conflict? How are families
changed by deployments, resettlement and the emotionally charged "fictive
kin relations" that often emerge amongst brothers-in-arms and
sisters-in-arms? Military service may bring injury, illness or trauma. How
do soldiers navigate challenges to physical and mental health in different
social, military and clinical environments? Moreover, military hierarchies
differentiate mobility; rank-and-file typically have less control over
their mobility, and may even be deployed against their will. What then are
the lived effects of the power geographies entailed by military service?
We welcome researchers from all disciplines to present ethnographic
research that examines military mobilities and the social transitions they
entail.
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