In the absence of an anti-war movement, you write as only managed amounts, serious attacks on domestic injustices. Why haven't those domestic to global dots been connected and to be clear? Movement leaders are often very internationalist, but why on the mass level has our government's violence only been thinkable and contestable within our borders and briefly with Trump at the border?
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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