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American Militarism w/ Nadia Abu El-Haj

Mar 5, 2023

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PTSD - A History of Medicine and Science

05:28

The Politics of Moral Injury

04:05

How Do You Let Go of the Pain?

02:22

Introduction

3min

PTSD - A History of Medicine and Science

5min

Combat Trauma, Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post 9 11 America

2min

Basic Training

2min

Moral Injuries in the US Military

2min

Is There a Moral Transgression?

4min

The New American Militarism

3min

Is This Legal or Not Legal?

1min

Just War Theory and International Human Rights Law

2min

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Do Arabs Experience Moral Injury?

2min

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Is Moral Injuries Really a Spiritual Injury?

2min

12.

How Do You Let Go of the Pain?

2min

13.

Is There a Christian Just War Theory?

4min

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The Civilian Military Divide Is Not Simply Descriptive

2min

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The Civil Military Dilemma

3min

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What Is the Public's Moral Obligation to Soldiers?

2min

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Civil Military Dilemma and War Crimes

3min

18.

What Is the Reality of War?

1min

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My Country Is the World by Stodden Lind

5min

20.

The Civil Military Divide Is a Replication of the Grammar

2min

21.

The Politics of Moral Injury

4min

22.

Is It a Class Draft?

3min

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Anti-War Politics - What Is It All About?

2min

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Is There a Side Here I Can Believe In?

2min

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The American Left Isn't Identifying With, Right?

2min

26.

Isis

3min

27.

Is the US a Nation State?

2min

28.

Afghanistan - What's the Point?

2min

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The War on Terror - What Happens When There's No Recognizing?

4min

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What's the Problem With No Remembrance?

2min

31.

The War in Ukraine Is the Good Fight, Right?

2min

32.

What's the Role of Collective Political National Affect?

2min

33.

The US Was Innocent, It Was Unjustly Attacked

2min

34.

The Dig Podcast

2min

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. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Subscribe to New Left Review newleftreview.org/subscriptions/new Buy My Country is the World: Staughton Lynd’s Writings, Speeches, and Statements Against the Vietnam War haymarketbooks.org/books/1956-my-country-is-the-world

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