Invisible Veterans

Bibliographic Data

ID19005990
AuthorsAlice Wilson (0000-0003-4858-0350, University of Sussex, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume5
Issue1
Pages132-149
Publication date2019-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueConflict and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2164-4543 • E-ISSN: 2164-4551
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/arcs.2019.050109
OpenAlexW2951143345
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited35

Those who have participated in organized political violence often develop distinctive identities as veteran combatants. But what possibilities exist to produce a veteran identity for “invisible” veterans denied public recognition or mention, such as politically repressed defeated insurgents? Everyday socializing during or after political violence can help restore social worlds threatened or destroyed by violence; an examination of “invisible” veteran defeated revolutionaries in Dhufar, Oman, shows how everyday socializing can help reproduce a distinctive veteran identity despite political repression. Ethnographic fieldwork with veteran militants from the defeated revolutionary liberation movement for Dhufar reveals that while veterans (who are a diverse group) no longer publicly reproduce their political and economic revolutionary ideals, some male veterans—through everyday, same-sex socializing—reproduce revolutionary ideals of social, especially tribal and ethnic, egalitarianism. These practices mark a distinctive veteran identity and indicate an “afterlife” of lasting social legacies of defeated revolution

Aesthetics · Criminology · Egalitarianism · Ethnic group · Ethnography · Everyday life · Identity politics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East

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