The Geopolitics of Intimacy and the Intimacies of Geopolitics

Combat Deployment, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Domestic Abuse in the British Military

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4413409
AutoresHarriet Gray (0000-0001-7702-1959, autor correspondente), Gray, Gray Gray
Ano2016
Volume42
Fascículo1
Páginas138
Data de publicação2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFeminist Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0046-3663 • E-ISSN: 2153-3873
EditoraProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.15767/feministstudies.42.1.138
OpenAlexW2340936079
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas22

This paper discusses narratives which identify experiences of deployment – in particular the difficulties of post-deployment reintegration and associated mental health conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder – as causal in the domestic abuse perpetrated by servicemen in the British military. Drawing on a qualitative study of domestic abuse in this context, it challenges the notion that these narratives always have an empirical basis and instead draws attention to their discursive power. The paper argues that theorists of militarism should look not only to its enactments on the geopolitical stage but to the mundane, everyday gendered social relations which make such enactments possible. It illustrates how discourses which position post-deployment reintegration and PTSD as causal of domestic abuse both reproduce and depoliticise militarism by reinforcing and naturalising the everyday gendered structures of inequality by which it is underpinned in the contemporary British context

Context (archaeology) · Contradiction · Criminology · Domestic violence · Epistemology · Geopolitics · Mental health · Militarism · Narrative · Poison control · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Psychiatry · Sociology · Software deployment · Suicide prevention · Engineering · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · History · Law · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research · Psychology · Social Psychology