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Fighting for Peace
Fighting for Peacebrings to light an important yet neglected aspect of opposition to the Iraq War-the role of veterans and their families. Drawing on extensive participant observation and interviews, Lisa Leitz demonstrates how the harrowing war experiences of veterans and their families motivated a significant number of them to engage in peace activism.
Married to a Navy pilot herself, Leitz documents how military peace activists created a movement that allowed them to merge two seemingly contradictory sides of their lives: an intimate relation to the military and antiwar activism. Members of the movement strategically deployed their combined military-peace activist identities to attract media attention, assert their authority about the military and war, and challenge dominant pro-war sentiment. By emphasizing the human costs of war, activists hoped to mobilize American citizens and leaders who were detached from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, bring the wars to an end, and build up programs to take care of returning veterans and their families.
The stories inFighting for Peaceultimately reveal that America's all-volunteer force is contributing to a civilian-military divide that leaves civilians with little connection to the sacrifices of the military. Increasingly, Leitz shows, veterans and their families are being left to not only fight America's wars but also to fight against them.
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Bringing Down Divides
Dedicated to the memory of Gregory M. Maney, Bringing Down Divides engages with and continues Maney's work on international conflicts, peace and justice movements and community-based research to explore three types of divides: attributional divides, ideological divides, and epistemological divides.
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Oppositional Identities: The Military Peace Movement's Challenge to Pro-Iraq War Frames
In the United States, rhetoric in support of the Iraq War often focuses on discourses of patriotism and supporting the troops. These discourses hold enormous sway over the American public because of the discursive legacies of the Vietnam War and the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. In response, members of the peace movement who are veterans, soldiers, and military families stress their military identities during activism. These individuals have organized as an important branch of the U.S. antiwar movement that challenges the pro-war framing of patriotism and troop support by strategically deploying “oppositional identities.” The oppositional identity strategy involves highlighting the activism of individuals who many would assume would be part of the movement's opposition. In an effort to assert credibility and support their frames, activists assert this novel and seemingly contradictory identity through organizational affiliation, rhetoric, clothing, mannerisms, and symbols.
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Using Sociological Images to Develop the Sociological Imagination
We present a two-assignment series that developed students’ sociological imaginations and that could be done in a face-to-face or online course. The series used the Sociological Images blog and students’ own visual images (e.g., photographs) to meet course learning goals: (1) link sociological theories and concepts to social events/trends, (2) apply these ideas to real life by identifying sociologically relevant images in daily life, and (3) communicate sociological analysis in academic and popular written forms. The use of a blog encourages students to embrace public sociology. We present faculty and student assessment data (pretest from nonequivalent comparisons group) from six lower division sociology classes at a regional university (N = 157). Students entered with little a priori ability to examine images using a sociological lens, and students who completed the series successfully applied sociological concepts and theories to critically examine elements of their lives, achieving core sociology disciplinary learning goals.
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Insider–Outsiders
Former Army Specialist Mike Blake served in Iraq during the initial invasion and then filed for and obtained an honorable discharge as a CO in February 2005. Blake learned things from his military service that brought him to the conclusion that he was more patriotic when he protested than when he was in the Army. Through Blake’s story we see that idealism often ran head on into the realities of war, causing activists to experience disillusionment with the Iraq War.
Blake’s reasons for joining were not unlike those of many enlisted personnel and officers in the military. He was “eighteen
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Conclusion
As part of the military peace movements’ post-Iraq protests, nearly fifty U.S. veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan joined protests of a NATO conference in Chicago on May 20, 2012. IVAW and Gold Star family members led a march of several hundred thousand through the streets of Chicago and were the only ones to speak at the rally after the march, though they were flanked by VFP and MFSO members. Men and women in desert camouflage, black IVAW T-shirts, and the remnants of dress uniforms called cadence, including the lines, “Obama, Obama, can’t you see / Oh what the NATO’s done
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Joining the Military Peace Movement
Sweating profusely in the Texas summer heat of 2006, about thirty members of IVAW, GSFP, MFSO, and VFP, buoyed by smaller numbers of other peace organizations such as CodePink, worked frantically to create a space to stage events on a vacant lot that Cindy Sheehan purchased in Crawford approximately seven miles from President Bush’s ranch. Activists readied the rural space by building roads, clearing brush, planting gardens, setting up memorials, constructing a stage, installing generators and bathrooms, and rigging a sound system and lights. The work became especially hectic as September 1 approached because the activists had called for a
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