Resilience Militaries and Militarization
This book explores the concept of ‘resilience’ in the context of militaries and militarization. Focusing on the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, and continental Europe, it argues that, post-9/11, there has been a shift away from ‘trauma’ and towards ‘resilience’ in framing and understanding human r...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2022, 2022
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- Part I: The Pre-history of Resilience
- 2. A New Psychology of War: The Science of Resilience and the Militarization of Positive Psychology
- 3. Resilience on the March: Stoic (Social) Grit
- 4. Alternative Histories of Resilience: After and Before PTSD
- Part II: Contemporary Military Cases
- 5. ‘The Bullet-Proof Mind’: Resilience and Warfighters in the US Marine Corps
- 6. Reconceptualizing Military Resilience Programming in the United States Army as Human Resource Management
- Part III: Intimate Military Lives and Spirituality
- 7. Toughened Love: The US Military, ‘Resilience’ and the Instrumentalization of Romantic Intimacy
- 8. Resilience as a Failed Concept: The Militarization of Intimate Lives
- 9. Measuring the American Soldier’s Spiritual Fitness for Warfare: How the US Army Converts Different Forms of Belief into Different Ways of Being, and Why This Matters