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Unconventional Combat Intersectional Action in the Veterans' Peace Movement

Messner, Michael A.
Heftet / 2021 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780197573648
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
295 gr
Høyde
152 mm
Bredde
231 mm
Dybde
10 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
192

Forfatter
Messner, Michael A.

Biographical note

Michael A. Messner is Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. He is the author of several books, including Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence Against Women (Oxford University Press, 2015) and, most recently, Guys Like Me: Five wars, Five Veterans for Peace (2019). His honors include the Pursuit of Justice Award from the California Women's Law Center, the Feminist Mentoring Award from the Sociologists for Women in Society, and the Jessie Bernard Award, presented by the American Sociological Association in recognition of contributions to the understanding of women's lives.

Unconventional Combat Intersectional Action in the Veterans' Peace Movement

Messner, Michael A.
Heftet / 2021 / Engelsk
Messner, Michael A.
Heftet / 2021 / Engelsk
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(The Book) provide(s) insight into their efforts for peace, racial equality, and the LGBT+ movement.

E. Hannel, CHOICE Connect, Vol. 59 No. 8

Veterans of any war in any country are intersectionally gendered. Michael Messner has listened carefully to 6 American recent veterans whose experiences and ideas are rarely heard. He has thus drawn back the curtain both on today's US military's misogynist and racialized culture and on older white male veteran peace activists' difficulty in grasping its implications for them. I'll be thinking about this book for a long time.

Cynthia Enloe, author of Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War

Michael Messner does a beautiful job of thinking deeply about the interconnectedness of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and social class as they affect the standpoint and experiences of young activists. His book offers something really substantial to the study of intersectionality and social movements, and it's a wonderful contribution to these fields of study.

Mignon R. Moore, Columbia University

Se alle

A groundbreaking analysis of veterans and the peace movement, Messner focuses on a young generation outside of the heterosexual, white male norm in the military. Told through compelling narratives and an intersectional lens, this is an important book for anyone interested in the complications of serving in the military and then coming to seek an end to war.

Jo Reger, Professor of Sociology, Oakland University

In recent decades, there has been a generational shift of the US veterans' peace movement, from one grounded mostly in the experiences of older white men of the Vietnam War era, to one informed by a young, diverse cohort of post-9/11 veterans. In Unconventional Combat, Michael A. Messner traces this transformation through the life-history interviews of six veterans of color to show how their experiences of sexual and gender harassment, sexual assault, racist and homophobic abuse during their military service has shaped their political views and action. Drawing upon participant observation with the Veterans For Peace and About Face organizations and interviews with older male veterans as his backdrop, Messner shows how veterans' military experiences form their collective "situated knowledge" of intersecting oppressions. This knowledge, Messner argues, further shapes their intersectional praxis, which promises to transform the veterans' peace movement and potentially link their anti-militarist work with other movement groups working for change. As intersectionality has increasingly become central to the conversation on social movements, Unconventional Combat is not only a story about the US veterans' peace movement, but it also offers broad relevance to the larger world of social justice activism.
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Prologue Chapter 1: Action at intersections: Wars, militarization, and veterans' peace movements INTERLUDE 1: "It was all men." Chapter 2: "I was in unconventional combat": Intersectional pathways through the military INTERLUDE 2: Guys being guys Chapter 3: "Rip off the band-aid": A new generation confronts the veterans' peace movement INTERLUDE 3: "We cannot stand in fear" Chapter 4: "Connecting the dots": From silos to intersectional coalitions INTERLUDE 4: "Say it, mean it, and do something about it." Chapter 5: "You've got to do something radical": Intersectional praxis in social movements Appendix I: Methodological Appendix: Centering Intersectional Standpoints List of References Notes Appendix
Les mer
"(The Book) provide(s) insight into their efforts for peace, racial equality, and the LGBT+ movement." -- E. Hannel, CHOICE Connect, Vol. 59 No. 8 "Veterans of any war in any country are intersectionally gendered. Michael Messner has listened carefully to 6 American recent veterans whose experiences and ideas are rarely heard. He has thus drawn back the curtain both on today's US military's misogynist and racialized culture and on older white male veteran peace activists' difficulty in grasping its implications for them. I'll be thinking about this book for a long time." -- Cynthia Enloe, author of Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War "Michael Messner does a beautiful job of thinking deeply about the interconnectedness of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and social class as they affect the standpoint and experiences of young activists. His book offers something really substantial to the study of intersectionality and social movements, and it's a wonderful contribution to these fields of study." -- Mignon R. Moore, Columbia University "A groundbreaking analysis of veterans and the peace movement, Messner focuses on a young generation outside of the heterosexual, white male norm in the military. Told through compelling narratives and an intersectional lens, this is an important book for anyone interested in the complications of serving in the military and then coming to seek an end to war." -- Jo Reger, Professor of Sociology, Oakland University
Les mer
Selling point: Examines the rise of intersectionality in the contemporary veterans' peace movement Selling point: Focuses on the lives of six Post-9/11 military veterans turned peace activists: all people of color, four of them women, four of them queer-identified, one of them a Native Two-Spirit Person Selling point: Shows how a younger cohort of women, queer, and of color veterans bring anti-militarism perspectives to the larger ecology of social justice and anti-colonial movements
Les mer
Michael A. Messner is Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. He is the author of several books, including Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence Against Women (Oxford University Press, 2015) and, most recently, Guys Like Me: Five wars, Five Veterans for Peace (2019). His honors include the Pursuit of Justice Award from the California Women's Law Center, the Feminist Mentoring Award from the Sociologists for Women in Society, and the Jessie Bernard Award, presented by the American Sociological Association in recognition of contributions to the understanding of women's lives.
Les mer
Selling point: Examines the rise of intersectionality in the contemporary veterans' peace movement Selling point: Focuses on the lives of six Post-9/11 military veterans turned peace activists: all people of color, four of them women, four of them queer-identified, one of them a Native Two-Spirit Person Selling point: Shows how a younger cohort of women, queer, and of color veterans bring anti-militarism perspectives to the larger ecology of social justice and anti-colonial movements
Les mer

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(The Book) provide(s) insight into their efforts for peace, racial equality, and the LGBT+ movement.

E. Hannel, CHOICE Connect, Vol. 59 No. 8

Veterans of any war in any country are intersectionally gendered. Michael Messner has listened carefully to 6 American recent veterans whose experiences and ideas are rarely heard. He has thus drawn back the curtain both on today's US military's misogynist and racialized culture and on older white male veteran peace activists' difficulty in grasping its implications for them. I'll be thinking about this book for a long time.

Cynthia Enloe, author of Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War

Michael Messner does a beautiful job of thinking deeply about the interconnectedness of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and social class as they affect the standpoint and experiences of young activists. His book offers something really substantial to the study of intersectionality and social movements, and it's a wonderful contribution to these fields of study.

Mignon R. Moore, Columbia University

Se alle

A groundbreaking analysis of veterans and the peace movement, Messner focuses on a young generation outside of the heterosexual, white male norm in the military. Told through compelling narratives and an intersectional lens, this is an important book for anyone interested in the complications of serving in the military and then coming to seek an end to war.

Jo Reger, Professor of Sociology, Oakland University

In recent decades, there has been a generational shift of the US veterans' peace movement, from one grounded mostly in the experiences of older white men of the Vietnam War era, to one informed by a young, diverse cohort of post-9/11 veterans. In Unconventional Combat, Michael A. Messner traces this transformation through the life-history interviews of six veterans of color to show how their experiences of sexual and gender harassment, sexual assault, racist and homophobic abuse during their military service has shaped their political views and action. Drawing upon participant observation with the Veterans For Peace and About Face organizations and interviews with older male veterans as his backdrop, Messner shows how veterans' military experiences form their collective "situated knowledge" of intersecting oppressions. This knowledge, Messner argues, further shapes their intersectional praxis, which promises to transform the veterans' peace movement and potentially link their anti-militarist work with other movement groups working for change. As intersectionality has increasingly become central to the conversation on social movements, Unconventional Combat is not only a story about the US veterans' peace movement, but it also offers broad relevance to the larger world of social justice activism.
Les mer
Prologue Chapter 1: Action at intersections: Wars, militarization, and veterans' peace movements INTERLUDE 1: "It was all men." Chapter 2: "I was in unconventional combat": Intersectional pathways through the military INTERLUDE 2: Guys being guys Chapter 3: "Rip off the band-aid": A new generation confronts the veterans' peace movement INTERLUDE 3: "We cannot stand in fear" Chapter 4: "Connecting the dots": From silos to intersectional coalitions INTERLUDE 4: "Say it, mean it, and do something about it." Chapter 5: "You've got to do something radical": Intersectional praxis in social movements Appendix I: Methodological Appendix: Centering Intersectional Standpoints List of References Notes Appendix
Les mer
"(The Book) provide(s) insight into their efforts for peace, racial equality, and the LGBT+ movement." -- E. Hannel, CHOICE Connect, Vol. 59 No. 8 "Veterans of any war in any country are intersectionally gendered. Michael Messner has listened carefully to 6 American recent veterans whose experiences and ideas are rarely heard. He has thus drawn back the curtain both on today's US military's misogynist and racialized culture and on older white male veteran peace activists' difficulty in grasping its implications for them. I'll be thinking about this book for a long time." -- Cynthia Enloe, author of Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War "Michael Messner does a beautiful job of thinking deeply about the interconnectedness of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and social class as they affect the standpoint and experiences of young activists. His book offers something really substantial to the study of intersectionality and social movements, and it's a wonderful contribution to these fields of study." -- Mignon R. Moore, Columbia University "A groundbreaking analysis of veterans and the peace movement, Messner focuses on a young generation outside of the heterosexual, white male norm in the military. Told through compelling narratives and an intersectional lens, this is an important book for anyone interested in the complications of serving in the military and then coming to seek an end to war." -- Jo Reger, Professor of Sociology, Oakland University
Les mer
Selling point: Examines the rise of intersectionality in the contemporary veterans' peace movement Selling point: Focuses on the lives of six Post-9/11 military veterans turned peace activists: all people of color, four of them women, four of them queer-identified, one of them a Native Two-Spirit Person Selling point: Shows how a younger cohort of women, queer, and of color veterans bring anti-militarism perspectives to the larger ecology of social justice and anti-colonial movements
Les mer
Michael A. Messner is Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. He is the author of several books, including Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence Against Women (Oxford University Press, 2015) and, most recently, Guys Like Me: Five wars, Five Veterans for Peace (2019). His honors include the Pursuit of Justice Award from the California Women's Law Center, the Feminist Mentoring Award from the Sociologists for Women in Society, and the Jessie Bernard Award, presented by the American Sociological Association in recognition of contributions to the understanding of women's lives.
Les mer
Selling point: Examines the rise of intersectionality in the contemporary veterans' peace movement Selling point: Focuses on the lives of six Post-9/11 military veterans turned peace activists: all people of color, four of them women, four of them queer-identified, one of them a Native Two-Spirit Person Selling point: Shows how a younger cohort of women, queer, and of color veterans bring anti-militarism perspectives to the larger ecology of social justice and anti-colonial movements
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780197573648
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
295 gr
Høyde
152 mm
Bredde
231 mm
Dybde
10 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
192

Forfatter
Messner, Michael A.

Biographical note

Michael A. Messner is Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. He is the author of several books, including Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence Against Women (Oxford University Press, 2015) and, most recently, Guys Like Me: Five wars, Five Veterans for Peace (2019). His honors include the Pursuit of Justice Award from the California Women's Law Center, the Feminist Mentoring Award from the Sociologists for Women in Society, and the Jessie Bernard Award, presented by the American Sociological Association in recognition of contributions to the understanding of women's lives.

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