战争神话和创伤后应激障碍和军事自杀的正常化:军事自杀方程

IF 3.5 2区 社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Megan MacKenzie, Nicole Wegner
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摘要

军队自杀是西方军队日益关注的问题。在这篇文章中,使用定性媒体分析,我们引入了军队自杀方程,作为理解军队自杀话语的元叙事和分析工具。这种元叙事——海外服役+创伤后应激障碍(PTSD)=自杀——将军事自杀定位为海外军事部署期间获得的创伤后应激疾病的后果,并将增加军事资金定位为通常被称为军事自杀“流行病”的简单解决方案。“军人自杀等式既使军队中普遍存在心理健康问题的证据正常化,又通过引导公众关注等式中确定的“问题解决”周期来维持对军事机构和战争部署的支持。我们评估了这种简单化表述的政治后果,即再现了先前存在的关于战争“不可知性”、文职人员“支持部队”的责任以及兵役和作战部署的特殊性质的神话。
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War Myths and the Normalization of PTSD and Military Suicide: The Military Suicide Equation
Military suicide is an increasing concern for Western militaries. In this article, using a qualitative media analysis, we introduce the military suicide equation as a metanarrative and analytic tool for understanding discourse on military suicides. This metanarrative—overseas service + post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) = suicide—positions military suicide as the consequences of PTSD acquired during overseas military deployment and positions increased military funding as the simplistic solution to what is often described as a military suicide “epidemic.” The military suicide equation operates to both normalize evidence of widespread mental health issues within militaries and sustain support for military institutions and war deployments by directing public attention to the “problem-solution” cycle identified in the equation. We assess the political consequences of this simplistic representation, namely the reproduction of preexisting myths about the “unknowability” of war, civilian responsibilities to “Support the Troops,” and the exceptional nature of military service and combat deployment.
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期刊介绍: International Political Sociology (IPS), responds to the need for more productive collaboration among political sociologists, international relations specialists and sociopolitical theorists. It is especially concerned with challenges arising from contemporary transformations of social, political, and global orders given the statist forms of traditional sociologies and the marginalization of social processes in many approaches to international relations. IPS is committed to theoretical innovation, new modes of empirical research and the geographical and cultural diversification of research beyond the usual circuits of European and North-American scholarship.
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