Grateful Nation

Student Veterans and the Rise of the Military-Friendly Campus

Ellen Moore (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2017
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-6909-7 (ISBN)

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In today's volunteer military many recruits enlist for the educational benefits, yet a significant number of veterans struggle in the classroom, and many drop out. The difficulties faced by student veterans have been attributed to various factors: poor academic preparation, PTSD and other postwar ailments, and allegedly antimilitary sentiments on college campuses. In Grateful Nation Ellen Moore challenges these narratives by tracing the experiences of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans at two California college campuses. Drawing on interviews with dozens of veterans, classroom observations, and assessments of the work of veteran support organizations, Moore finds that veterans' academic struggles result from their military training and combat experience, which complicate their ability to function in civilian schools. While there is little evidence of antimilitary bias on college campuses, Moore demonstrates the ways in which college programs that conflate support for veterans with support for the institutional military lead to suppression of campus debate about the wars, discourage antiwar activism, and encourage a growing militarization.

Ellen Moore is a visiting scholar at the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues at the University of California, Berkeley.

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1. Basic Training: Making the Soldier, Militarizing the Civilian 25
2. What They Bring with Them: Effects of Military Training on Student Veterans 43
3. Campus Veteran Support Initiatives 77
4. Veteran Self-Help: Embracing, Re-creating, and Contesting Gendered Military Relations 97
5. Spectral Wars and the Myth of the Antimilitary Campus 127
6. "Thank You for Your Service": Gratitude and Its Discontents 165
Conclusion 189
Notes 201
Bibliography 237
Index 253

Erscheinungsdatum	10.11.2017
Reihe/Serie	Global Insecurities
Zusatzinfo	10 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	386 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8223-6909-5 / 0822369095
ISBN-13	978-0-8223-6909-7 / 9780822369097
Zustand	Neuware