In her analysis, there's a self undermining dynamic wherein it is not going to succeed at the emancipatory project. The soldier is a category of person that has a distinct experience that is different than anyone else. In culture, so instead of morals, its own world. And that is really central to the civil military divide.
Featuring Nadia Abu El-Haj on Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America. How the civil-military divide makes troops into super citizens and what it means that agents of state violence are turning to the grammar of identity politics—and more. The second in a two-part interview.
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