Weary Warriors

Pamela Moss is a Professor in Human and Social Development at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She co-authored with Isabel Dyck of Women, Body, Illness (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), edited with Katherine Teghtsoonian Contesting Illness (University of Toronto Press, 2008), and wrote and edited with Karen Falconer Al-Hindi Feminisms in Geography (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008). She is working on a book manuscript about women’s tired bodies entitled Fatigue.

“...is the first survey of modern war trauma orientated around this distinctive biopolitical positioning. … It is an exhaustive mining of Foucault’s oeuvre, along with poststructuralist feminist theory and science studies, for theoretical articulations that speak directly to questions of military embodiment and psychiatric knowledge production.” • Kenneth MacLeish, Vanderbilt University in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute“Weary Warriors (the tragedies of its subject-matter aside) is a deeply satisfying book to read…[It] provides an excellent example of an account of war which manages to weave the specificities of time and place of singular conflicts within a broader narrative accounting for the power and politics of a much wider and enduring set of practices around the treatment of those who carry with them the invisible marks of experience of conflict. This history of the militarised constitution of the idea of mental damage is pluralist in its sources, and the authors are unafraid of using a diversity of sources to make their case.” · Cultural Geographies“This is a solid piece of scholarship. The authors successfully apply key concepts from Foucault, along with those of his feminist critics, to the analysis of soldiers returning from war. In so doing, they deepen our understanding of how weary warriors are constructed through time and space, and what his/her diagnosis, treatment, and release says about wider relations of power in, between, and across the state, the military, psychiatry, and the body itself.” · Carolyn Gallaher, American University“The authors provide a fascinating and well documented argument, drawing on a sophisticated analysis of theory and research on embodiment, the regulation of subjectivity, and the construction of psychiatric illness. They bring the experience of military distress to life through quotations, and through analysis of memoir and personal resistance. They also provide an important historical perspective to the construction and experience of distress following military engagement.” · Jane M Ussher, University of Western Sydney

• List of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Weary Warriors Walk Among Us: Combat, Knowledge Circulation, and Naming Traumatized SoldiersChapter 1. Ravished Minds and Ill Bodies: Power, Embodiment, DispositifsChapter 2. Unsettling Notions: War Neuroses, Soldiering, and Broken EmbodimentsChapter 3. Classifying Bodies through Diagnosis: Knowledges, Locations, and Categorical EnclosuresChapter 4. Managing Illness through Power: Regulation, Resistance and Truth GamesChapter 5. Cultural Accounts of the Soldier as Subject: Folds, Disclosures and EnactmentsChapter 6. Fixing Soldiers: The Treatment of Bodies, Minds, and SoulsChapter 7. The Soldier in Context: Psychiatric Practices, Military Imperatives, and Masculine IdealsChapter 8. Soldiering On: Care of Self, Status Passages, and Citizenship ClaimsChapter 9. Military Bodies and Battles Multiple: Embodied Trauma, Ontological Politics, and Patchwork WarriorsReferencesIndex