BISA 2025 Conference

Remaking military identities?

WE 18

18 Jun 2025, 13:15

1h 30m

Rome, Europa Hotel

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