TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Field Notes on the Politics of Veteran Care
JO  - Ethnos
A1  - MacLeish, K.
SP  - 654
EP  - 675
VL  - 86
IS  - 4
N2  - The experientially remote, ethically problematic, and 'unthinkable' character of military violence, entrenched in stereotyping and reductive figures of the soldier and veteran, is often taken to represent a fundamental crisis of ethnographic empathy and critique. I argue that this presumption of unbridgeable otherness should itself be a primary target of ethnography, a co-produced interrogation of truth in which ethnographer and subject alike have prior investments. I relate two instances in which unexpected veteran interlocutors challenged the 'truth' of stereotypical figurations that I also aimed to critique in my work. Exploring these confrontational co-productions of critique, I argue for an ethnography of military sociality embedded in informants' own capacities as critics, in which anthropology is accountable for its enmeshment in imperial geopolitics and militarised modes of care. © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0014-1844
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2019.1687546
ID  - ref1
ER  -