The most prominent cultural figure of the victim, I mean, of the traumatized subject is much, has really moved away from the Vietnam figure. This is also sort of, you know, post-Cold War, humanitarian intervention. The rise of emergency psychiatry by on groups like Med San San Fuentier started only with starvation and physical ailments but then moves to think about the suffering subject.
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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