Bringing the Homefront to the Forefront
UK perspectives on critical research with military spouses
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Welcome to our web platform showcasing recent and ongoing scholarly work relating to military spouses and partners!
On the 9th July 2021 speakers from various disciplines contributed research videos outlining their projects, key questions, methodologies, key findings, and implications. In different ways, all speakers aimed to better understand spouses' and partners' lived experiences and entanglement with military life, processes, and / or power. This was followed by a live discussion event, chaired by Dr Nick Caddick, where speakers further considered issues relating to recruitment, methodologies, impact, and criticality.
Below, you can access the eight research videos (including transcripts and links to related publications) and a recording of the live discussion resulting from these (at the bottom of the page).
Click here to read a report outlining the speakers' discussions. You could also take a look at our summary here.
If you have any questions please contact us via email (critmilspouse@gmail.com) or Twitter (@CriticalSpouse). If you would like to tweet about this content please use #criticalspouse
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Related publications:
Basham, V. and Catignani, S. (2018) War is where the hearth is: Gendered labor and the everyday reproduction of the geopolitical in the army reserves. Available here.
Catignani, S. and Basham, V. (2020) Reproducing the military and heteropatriarchal normal: Army Reserve service as serious leisure. Available here.
Catignani, S. and Basham, V. (2021) The gendered politics of researching military policy in the age of the ‘knowledge economy’. Available here.
Future Reserves Research Programme Stakeholder briefings. Available here.
Transcript can be viewed here.
Contact: s.catignani@exeter.ac.uk
Related publications:
Cree, A. (2019) Encountering the ‘lively’ in military theatre. Available here.
Cree, A. (2020) 'People want to see tears’: Military heroes and the ‘Constant Penelope’ of the UK’s Military Wives Choir. Available here.
Cree, A. (2020) Sovereign Wives? An Emotional Politics of Precarity and Resistance in the UK's Military Wives Choir. Available here.
West, H. (2020) Camp follower or counterinsurgent? Lady Templer and the forgotten wives. Available here.
West, H. and Antrobus, S. (2021) ‘Deeply odd’: women veterans as critical feminist scholars. Available here.
Transcript can be viewed here.
Contacts: alice.cree@newcastle.ac.uk and hannah.west@newcastle.ac.uk
Related publications:
Gray, H. (2015) Militarism in the everyday: responses to domestic abuse in the British Armed Forces. Available here.
Gray, H. (2016) Domestic abuse and the public/private divide in the British military. Available here.
Gray, H. (2016) The geopolitics of intimacy and the intimacies of geopolitics: Combat deployment, post-traumatic stress disorder, and domestic abuse in the British Military. Available here.
Gray, H. (2017) Domestic abuse and the reproduction of the idealised ‘military wife’. Available here.
Transcript can be viewed here.
Contact: harriet.gray@york.ac.uk
Related publications:
Long, E. (2019) Living liminal lives: Army partners’ lived experiences and perspectives of navigating and negotiating avenues for support. Available here.
Long, E. (2019) The spirit of community, the army family, and the impact on formal and informal support mechanisms. Available here.
Long, E. (2021) Living liminal lives: Army partners’ spatiotemporal experiences of deployment. Available here.
Long, E. (forthcoming) Maximising Operational Effectiveness: Exploring stigma, militarism, and the normative connections to army partners’ support-seeking.
Transcript can be viewed here.
Contact: e.long1@uea.ac.uk
Related publications:
Natale, E. (2019) Dealing with condemnation: military families and transitional justice in Argentina. Available here.
Natale, E. (2021) Military families and political violence in 1970s Argentina. Available here.
Natale, E. (2021) Researching Violence and Everyday Life in the 1970s: An Ethnographic Approach to the Argentine Military Family. Available here.
Transcript can be viewed here.
Contact: eleonora.natale@kcl.ac.uk
Related publications:
Rodrigues, M., Osborne, A. K., Johnson, D., and Kiernan, M. D. (2020) The exploration of the dispersal of British military families in England following the Strategic Defence and Security Review 2010. Available here.
Transcript can be viewed here.
Contact: alison.osborne2@northumbria.ac.uk
Watch this video to hear speakers discuss their thoughts on issues relating to recruitment, methodologies, impact, and criticality.
Transcript pending.
If you have any questions about this content please do not hesitate to contact us: critmilspouse@gmail.com
Apologies for the quality of recording for the first 5 minutes - this discussion was recorded live and thus subject to uncontrollable internet connectivity issues.
This event has been organised by Dr Emma Long (University of York), Dr Alice Cree (Newcastle University), and Donna Crowe-Urbaniak (University of Bristol / University of Exeter). It has been funded by Dr Emma Long's Economic and Social Research Council grant.
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