BISA 2025 Conference

Remaking military identities?

WE 18

18 Jun 2025, 13:15

1h 30m

Panel Critical Military Studies Working Group

Description

From wives to widows, from the enemy to the family, this panel questions the (re)making of military, (non)militarised and martial identities.

Subcontributions

• The role of the enemy for military identity
• Mr Big, Mrs Military Wife, and Miss Young and Innocent: Gender Politics and the Gendered Women in Thai Military-Related News
• Military Violence & the Swedish Defense Family: A Feminist-Queer Reflection on Metaphor
• Russia’s military wives in the context of Russo-Ukrainian war: patriotic, ‘grumbling’, and (in)visible figures
• Conducting Research on Nigeran Military Widows of the Boko Haram Conflict: A Methodological Reflection