Sexing the disabled veteran: the homoerotic aesthetics of militarism

Materiality, mediation and affective encounters: ‘Rising Phoenix’ and the cultural representation of disability

“…For some scholars, the prosthetic aesthetic has had a queering effect (see Shildrick, 2000Shildrick, , 2009 aligning select prosthetically enhanced disabled bodies with alternative gendered disabled discourses and sexual subjectivities (see Caso, 2017). There is certainly evidence of this throughout Rising Phoenix and especially in the case of the male Para body and performance of masculinity.…”

Why do soldiers swap illicit pictures? How a visual discourse analysis illuminates military band of brother culture

“…Such feminist interventions into visual culture have produced unique accounts of visuality and war, as well as drawn attention to the gendered ‘aesthetics of militarism’ (Caso, 2016). In her analysis of the visual and the ‘war on terror’, Laura Shepherd explains that visual representations of the war on terror are discursive practices and explores the power dynamics and politics of the efforts to project fixed interpretations of these images (2008).…”

Cosmopolitanism and individual ethical reflection – the embodied experiences of Swedish veterans

“…'Men and women are equally good' (Interview 4). The representation of female and male veterans, and soldiers more broadly, as having distinct gendered qualities, for example, women being particularly good talkers and men heroic and other-regarding protectors needs to be challenged (see Basham 2016;Strand 2018;Caso 2016;Fox et al 2016;Maiocco and Smith 2016;Bergman Rosamond and Kronsell 2018). Indeed, across our interview material, there is a tendency to discursively construct women soldiers within gender binaries that assign care and love to female troops (Interview 1,4,9,10).…”