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Journal Article
Off-Duty Resilience: Reorienting Tourism, Leisure, and Recreation in the US Army BOSS Program
2016
Overview
Military leaders have always understood that success on the battlefield requires the provision of recreation, relaxation, and leisure for active duty soldiers. Certainly this includes moments of \"down time\" during tours of duty overseas (eg, video games, fitness training, poker), but it also includes structured leave -- or R&R -- where soldiers depart from the battlefield for a relaxing vacation, an adventure holiday, or more recently, a short visit home. Critical examinations of R&R show how the off-duty time of soldiers is shaped by prevailing discourses of race, gender, class, and sexuality that are not that far removed from similar discourses operating on battlefields. The present essay builds on those insights by critically examining how the US Army is assimilating tourism, leisure, and recreational practices within its force-wide Ready and Resilient campaign (R2), and seeks to show how this process constructs resilient soldiers against disengaged, vulnerable, abject, exotic, and servile others.
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Johns Hopkins University Press
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