Rethinking Reintegration and Veteran Identity

Hunniecutt, Jeni

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-93754-6

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“…For some individuals, separating from the military can result in an "identity crisis" (Higate, 2003, p. 102;Hunniecutt, 2022), or a culture shock in which individuals unable to resocialize appear to equate their discharge with being powerless (Higate, 2003). While transitioning to civilian life, veterans face a wide range of issues, such as homefront stressors (e.g., family, occupational problems; Elnitsky et al, 2017;Haselden et al, 2019), redefined roles within the family and community (McCormack & Ell, 2017), moral injury due to postcombat deployments (Pyne et al, 2019), adjustment to service-related disabilities (Olenick et al, 2015), and chronic physical and psychological pain Phillips et al, 2016; U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs [VA], 2015).…”

Section: Veteran Studies and Community Engagementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Community Engagement Methods Related to Veteran Studies: A Scoping Review

Torres,

Freeman-Costin,

Frankel

et al. 2024

jces

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Community engagement in research enhances a community's ability to address its own needs and challenges while ensuring that researchers understand community priorities. Some confusion exists about the definition of community engagement in the context of veteran research. The purpose of this study was to search the literature to identify common applications of community engagement in U.S. veterans’ research and to determine how and at what stage veterans were involved in the research process. A systematic scoping review was conducted using CINAHL Plus, Wiley Cochrane Library, Education Source, ERIC, APA PsycInfo, National Library of Medicine PubMed, ProQuest Social Services Abstracts, and SocIndex by two independent investigators. Forty-two of 1,977 studies from initial searches were included in this review. From these studies, we identified two aspects of veterans’ involvement in research characterized as “community engagement”: (a) veterans as participants and (b) veterans as partners in the research process. There is a need to encourage veterans’ engagement and to standardize reporting of their engagement in the various phases of the research process.

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Section: Veteran Studies and Community Engagementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Community Engagement Methods Related to Veteran Studies: A Scoping Review

Torres,

Freeman-Costin,

Frankel

et al. 2024

jces

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“…She knows me well. She had read my dissertation and now book on veteran identity and military culture (Hunniecutt, 2022). She had witnessed my painful and stressful journey of separating from the military 7 years earlier, just weeks before I moved from Virginia, where I served in the Army National Guard for 6 years, to Denver, Colorado for a Ph.D. program.…”

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“…The intention of doing work in this space was good, but the impact of lack of cultural awareness in doing this work often resulted in an unintended impact-exclusion and misdirection in the work. The lack of insider knowledge was at the core of this exclusionary issue infecting the research in veteran studies, hence the need for insiders as researchers (Hunniecutt, 2022). With cultural outsiders dominating research on veteran issues, it allowed for nonveterans to drive the public perception of veteran identity.…”

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Veteran Identity (Perceptions) in Higher Education: A Veteran/Scholar/Advocate’s Story

Hunniecutt

2022

Journal of Veterans Studies

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Through autoethnography, a research method that considers how personal lived experiences are impacted and made visible through inquiry into cultural and systemic issues, the author shares her story of being a research administrator and staff member at a veteran center within a land-grant, Midwestern, top-tier research university. As both a veteran and a scholar of veteran studies, the researcher paints a picture of the consequences of a multi-decade war on the post-9/11 generation of veterans, veterancentric scholarship, and veteran services within university settings. Her story illustrates the consequences of a lack of military cultural insight and attunement of higher-education leadership and demonstrates why administrators of veteran centers and spaces must be well versed in military cultural awareness. The overarching themes of this piece reify how truth, empathy, and cultural competency are paramount to overcome barriers of both research and praxis related to veteran issues. Most importantly, this piece both shows and tells why veterans need a seat at the table.

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Section: "I Quit!"mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The intention of doing work in this space was good, but the impact of lack of cultural awareness in doing this work often resulted in an unintended impact, exclusion, and misdirection in the work. The lack of insider knowledge was at the core of this exclusionary issue infecting the research in veteran studies, hence the need for insiders as researchers (Hunniecutt, 2022). With cultural outsiders dominating research on veteran issues, it allowed for non-veterans to drive the public perception of veteran identity.…”

Section: Background and Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Veteran Identity (Perceptions) in Higher Education: A Veteran/Scholar/Advocate’s Story

Hunniecutt

2022

Journal of Veterans Studies

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Through autoethnography, a research method that considers how personal lived experiences are impacted and made visible through inquiry into cultural and systemic issues, the author shares her story of being a research administrator and staff member at a veteran center within a US research university. As both a veteran and a scholar of veteran studies, the researcher paints a picture of the consequences of a multidecade war on the post-9/11 generation of veterans, veteran-centric scholarship, and veteran services within university settings. Her story illustrates the consequences of a lack of military cultural insight and attunement of higher-education leadership and demonstrates why administrators of veteran centers and spaces must be well versed in military cultural awareness. The overarching themes of this piece reify how truth, empathy, and cultural competency are paramount to overcome barriers of both research and praxis related to veteran issues. Most importantly, this piece both shows and tells why veterans need a seat at the table.

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Rethinking Reintegration and Veteran Identity

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Community Engagement Methods Related to Veteran Studies: A Scoping Review

Community Engagement Methods Related to Veteran Studies: A Scoping Review

Veteran Identity (Perceptions) in Higher Education: A Veteran/Scholar/Advocate’s Story

Veteran Identity (Perceptions) in Higher Education: A Veteran/Scholar/Advocate’s Story

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