As the war on terror ground on, researchers began to push beyond these things that it becomes sort of the orthodoxies around battlefield trauma and its treatment. They're hearing people who are talking about guilt, not shame, guilt for having done something like killed a kid or shot up a family. It brings back a lot of the issues that were raised by the psychiatrists in the 1970s with Meghan Doreph.
Featuring Nadia Abu El-Haj on Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America. A truly remarkable book about the unseen ideological foundations of American militarism: American civilians are enjoined to venerate troops, deferring to their traumatized positionality. The first in a two-part interview.
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