Resilience : militaries and militarization / / edited by Joanna Bourke and Robin May Schott

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 pages)
• Disciplina: 306
• Soggetto topico: Cross-cultural studies; Militarization
• Persona (resp. second.): BourkeJoanna; SchottRobin May
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Resilience: Psychology and Security -- Resilience, Social Imaginaries, and Imagined Communities -- Resilience as a Traveling Concept -- Science/Politics (Knowledge/Power) -- Resilience Enters the Military -- Militarization -- Dominant Themes -- Future Research -- Conclusion -- References -- Part I: The Pre-history of Resilience -- Chapter 2: A New Psychology of War: The Science of Resilience and the Militarization of Positive Psychology -- Introduction -- The Roots of Resilience -- A Science of Strength and Virtue -- Mass Trauma -- The Rediscovery of Resilience -- Mental Armor -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Resilience on the March: Stoic (Social) Grit -- References -- Chapter 4: Alternative Histories of Resilience: After and Before PTSD -- Introduction -- Post-9/11: The PTSD-Resilience Nexus -- Post-1945: Memory, Narrative and Stress -- Pre-1945: Shock, Management and Efficiency -- New Histories of Resilience -- References -- Part II: Contemporary Military Cases -- Chapter 5: 'The Bullet-Proof Mind': Resilience and Warfighters in the US Marine Corps -- Introduction -- New Concepts -- Crises Within the US Military -- Marine Responses -- Problems with 'Resilience' Training in the Mental Health Intervention Programs -- Tensions Between 'Normal' and Stigmatized Trauma -- Critique of the 'Resilience' and Trauma Models -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Reconceptualizing Military Resilience Programming in the United States Army as Human Resource Management -- Introduction -- The Co-constitution of the Field of Psychology with Military Behavioral Health -- Defining and Locating Military Resilience -- CSF/CSF2 -- Validation of CSF and CSF2 -- Measuring Spiritual Fitness -- Additional Concerns About the GAT and Justifications for the Platform. ; Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Intimate Military Lives and Spirituality -- Chapter 7: Toughened Love: The US Military, 'Resilience' and the Instrumentalization of Romantic Intimacy -- Introduction -- The Marital and the Martial -- Channelling Positive Emotion: 'Resilience' avant la lettre -- 'Strong Bonds' -- Impossible Injuries-Misdiagnosed? -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Resilience as a Failed Concept: The Militarization of Intimate Lives -- Introduction -- Theoretical Interlude: Failure, Governmentality, and Ideology Critique -- The Introduction of Resilience into the Military -- Empathetic Critics -- Militarization of Family Relations -- Adaptive Families -- Resilience as a Failed Concept -- References -- Chapter 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 -- Introduction -- The Global Assessment Tool -- Measuring Spirituality -- How the Army's Approach to Spirituality Matches a General Ontological Tendency in Cultural Studies -- Why Converting Beliefs into Personal Experience and Identity Is Problematic -- Resilience and the Politics of Subjectivity -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Resilience
• ISBN: 3-031-13367-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910768461003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II