The Civilian Wives of Military Personnel: Mobile Subjects or Agents of Militarisation?

Hyde, Alexandra

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“…In relation to the literature on military families, feminist perspectives have mostly contributed with critical perspectives on the roles, identities and situation of the "military wife." Studies on British army wives (Hyde, 2016(Hyde, , 2017, ranks and hierarchies in the British and American military (Harrell, 2003;Jessup, 1996), voluntary work and expected social roles among military wives in Britain, the U.S. and Canada (Weinstein & White, 1997;Gribble, 2016), as well as the impacts of a "traditional" military institution on soldiers' wives' careers and social lives (Higate & Cameron, 2004)…”

Section: Sociology: Work-life Balance and Risk Assessment In Military...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“Military Families” – Critical Perspectives on a Research Field

Heiselberg

2023

Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies

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Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Danish soldiers and their families going through military deployment between 2015 and 2016, this article investigates the term "military families" from a critical anthropological perspective. It starts by outlining how the military family, as a discrete category, emerged as a research field in the United States between the 1960s and 1980s. The article argues that the specific geographical context in which the study of military families developed has had significant impact both on the academic knowledge produced about these families and what has come to be understood as a "military family." The article proceeds to identify dominant research themes within three academic disciplines which, it is argued, have each shaped the study of military families: psychology, sociology and feminist studies. In the second part of the article, anthropological perspectives on military family life are introduced as examples illustrating the ways in which the cultural and social context become relevant when investigating how military deployment and the military institution affect both service members and their families. The paper argues that an exploration of "things military" (Lutz, 2002) must relate to and take into consideration the societal and cultural norms shaping the experience of any military.

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Section: Sociology: Work-life Balance and Risk Assessment In Military...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“Military Families” – Critical Perspectives on a Research Field

Heiselberg

2023

Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies

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“…These are often women from working-class backgrounds who have married young and moved away from families to be with their husbands. While not living abroad due to their husbands' job postings, they nevertheless experience the 'dis-location' of a necessarily mobile life required as a military wife (Hyde, 2017). The circumstances of their lives are something that tends to be swept under the carpet.…”

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Danger, comfort, and silence at the home front: Mediating soldiers’ wives

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Parry

2022

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article explores how the experiences of soldiers’ wives are mediated in the context of militarised popular culture and following two ultimately unpopular wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We show how audiences, representation (in two senses) and gender matter in a qualitative research project with soldiers, soldiers’ wives and veterans, which explores their perceptions of contemporary media representations of British soldiering, and their social media use. In the summer of 2014, we interviewed 31 participants in 5 focus groups for a British Academy funded project. Participants were veterans, veteran support groups, family members (all ‘wives’) and those directly involved with the promotion of the armed forces in various media (the Joint Information Activities Group, Media Operations Team). The focus groups explored media representations of contemporary soldiering across a range of media and genres (TV documentaries, reality TV, drama, newspapers) but also social media use – practices of self-representation. In this article, we focus on interview data from the wives’ groups (as they identify themselves) and find four emergent and overlapping themes: ridicule, comfort, danger and silence. We argue that the mediation of soldier’s wives is an area of pronounced contradiction: one that is important in and of itself for what it tells us about the experience of that group of women and equally important for what it tells us about representation, practice and gender and the ways in which these are entwined in digital culture.

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Disparities and Diversification: Feminists in Europe Study War and/or Militaries

Gray

2022

Feminist IR in Europe

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This chapter discusses the dynamic feminist scholarship on war and militaries produced in contemporary Europe, highlighting work on militarism and militarization, military masculinities, the inclusion of women in armed organizations, military families, conflict-related sexual violence, and ‘everyday’ experiences. It sketches the national and institutional contexts where scholars are located and discusses the political economies that underpin significant disparities in geographical distribution and research focus, despite efforts to diversify scholarship and challenge dominant storylines and assumptions. In emphasizing how ideas and communities of scholars span continents, the chapter troubles the reification of ‘Europe’ as a privileged site of knowledge production.

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The Civilian Wives of Military Personnel: Mobile Subjects or Agents of Militarisation?

Cited by 13 publications

References 16 publications

“Military Families” – Critical Perspectives on a Research Field

“Military Families” – Critical Perspectives on a Research Field

Danger, comfort, and silence at the home front: Mediating soldiers’ wives

Disparities and Diversification: Feminists in Europe Study War and/or Militaries

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