BISA 2026 Conference

Militarism (dis)embodied: care, injury, neglect

FR05

5 Jun 2026, 10:45

1h 30m

Panel Critical Military Studies Working Group

Description

In these papers' explorations of the politics of military and veteran care, injury and neglect by the state which sends them to war, this panel unsettles militarism in these spaces and practices to reveal it as (dis)embodied.

Subcontributions

• The Aesthetic of the Prosthetic: Invictus, Injury, and Inspiration
• From service to suicide: how institutional structures produce identity injury and devastating wellbeing outcomes for women veterans
• Veteran Bodies Vanished – Embodiments of State Neglect and Veteran Care
• Social Perceptions of Combat Stress and Trauma among Nigerian Soldiers in the Boko Haram Conflict.