Overview
- Unique in international focus on veterans
- Valuable insights from eight countries
- Valuable as a source reference as well as for rigorous scholarship
- Edited by members of the Reimagining Conflict: Policy, Pedagogy and the Arts (RCPPA) Research
Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, and Practice (IPSPAP)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Keywords
- veterans health
- military veteran transition
- re-entering civilisn life
- health services for veterans
- veterans' transition in Australia
- veterans' transition in Croatia
- veterans' transition in Estonia
- veterans' transition in the Netherlands
- veterans' transition in Norway
- veterans' transition in Poland
- veterans' transition in Spain
- veterans' transition in United Kingdom
- veterans' transition in the United States
- veterans' mental health and criminology
- social justice for veterans
- veterans' and return to work
- barriers to veteran employment
- veterans' quality of life
- veterans' issues of identity and self-worth
- veterans and the public
About this book
This edited book presents a synthesis of current international knowledge on the topic of military veteran transition to civilian life. Understanding the transition of individuals from military institutions to civilian life is of great importance. The essential elements of transition support are currently widely debated in order to assess current practice and potential shortcomings in the intention to improve health, welfare and social outcomes for military veterans.
This text links original research and critical commentary to public policy and practice in the area of veteran transition. Doing so through a collection of international perspectives assists in locating continuity and difference between strategies, agendas and the realities of what is actually known of the veteran’s experience.
Chapters in this text examine the subject of transition along lines of enquiry that focus in on themes such as social justice, veteran identity and developmentsin transition agendas. Globally, many veterans face complex social issues such as low income, barriers to employment, and problems of health and welfare. Chapters take stock of the real-world issues affecting veterans and at the same time casts a critical eye over the limitations in accessing, or denial of access to opportunities, support and remedy. The veteran identity is an important dimension of enquiry here. This book looks at the relational factors between the veteran and the public, the creation of a master status and the challenges faced by veterans in transitioning into a cultural context that is saturated with imagery of what a veteran ‘is’. Chapters also seek to pose recommendations as to how the policy and practice agenda that surrounds veterans and the bridging of the gap between military and civilian life may be developed. Here authors point towards the value of knowledge, research and analysis that is underpinned by participatory strategies with veterans themselves. Forexample, seeking to establish lines of enquiry that value the voice of veterans as an ongoing and iterative dimension of developing understanding.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr Emma Murray is a Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Emma is the Project Lead of the 'Reimagining Conflict: Pedagogy, Policy and the Arts' site and international research group. Emma has published extensively on the lived experience of the veteran (in particular in the context of their contact with the criminal justice system), and conceptually as a key subject in discourses of war and security.
Dr Katherine Albertson is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Katherine has worked on a number of funded research projects with military veterans including an investigation into the potential relationships between identity transition, offending and substance misuse, through the desistance and recovery narratives of ex-military service participants engaging in recovery support services. Further, Katherine is leading a funded study that evaluates current addiction services for military veterans.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Military Past, Civilian Present
Book Subtitle: International Perspectives on Veterans' Transition from the Armed Forces
Editors: Paul Taylor, Emma Murray, Katherine Albertson
Series Title: International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, and Practice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30829-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-30828-5Published: 26 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-30831-5Published: 26 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-30829-2Published: 17 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2625-6975
Series E-ISSN: 2625-6983
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 129
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Psychology, Sociology, general, Public Health, Social Work, Military and Defence Studies