This week's podcast features an interview with Nadia Boulkhkh, a professor of anthropology at Barnard College in Columbia University. The two discuss the rise of militarist politics that redefined post-Vietnam syndrome as Vietnam syndrome. They also talk about how soldiers and really all sorts of Americans are increasingly turning to the grammar of identity politics. If you can afford it, please contribute so we can make this podcast sustainable over the long term.
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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