Invisible veterans: defeated militants and enduring revolutionary social values in Dhufar, Oman

Contenu

Titre

Invisible veterans: defeated militants and enduring revolutionary social values in Dhufar, Oman

Créateur

Wilson, Alice Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Date

2019

Dans

Conflict and Society Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Résumé

Those who have participated in organized political violence often develop distinctive identities as veteran combatants. But what possibilities exist to produce a veteran identity for “invisible” veterans denied public recognition or mention, such as politically repressed defeated insurgents? Everyday socializing during or after political violence can help restore social worlds threatened or destroyed by violence; an examination of “invisible” veteran defeated revolutionaries in Dhufar, Oman, shows how everyday socializing can help reproduce a distinctive veteran identity despite political repression. Ethnographic fieldwork with veteran militants from the defeated revolutionary liberation movement for Dhufar reveals that while veterans (who are a diverse group) no longer publicly reproduce their political and economic revolutionary ideals, some male veterans—through everyday, same-sex socializing—reproduce revolutionary ideals of social, especially tribal and ethnic, egalitarianism. These practices mark a distinctive veteran identity and indicate an “afterlife” of lasting social legacies of defeated revolution.

Langue

eng

volume

5

numéro

1

pages

132-149

doi

10.3167/arcs.2019.050109

issn

2164-4543, 2164-4551

uri

http://berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/conflict-and-society/5/1/arcs050109.xml

Wilson, Alice, “Invisible veterans: defeated militants and enduring revolutionary social values in Dhufar, Oman”, 2019, bibliographie, consulté le 19 septembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/23587