Dig: Combat Trauma w/ Nadia Abu El-Haj
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🗓️ 26 February 2023
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Featuring Nadia Abu El-Haj on Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America. A truly remarkable book about the unseen ideological foundations of American militarism: American civilians are enjoined to venerate troops, deferring to their traumatized positionality. The first in a two-part interview.
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| 1:04.0 | by Andreas Maum, adapted for a younger audience by Jimmy and Lewin Whips, out now from verso books |
| 1:12.7 | and available at versobooks.com Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. |
| 1:28.3 | My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. |
| 1:33.3 | The war on terror has long had a sort of unreality about it that I've struggled to put my finger on. |
| 1:39.0 | Ever since George W. Bush responded to 9-11 by both announcing the launch of an endless global war |
| 1:45.6 | and encouraging Americans to quote, get down to Disney World in Florida, it was clear |
| 1:51.4 | that the empire was entering a new and strange moment. The war on terror has for two decades been |
| 1:58.2 | simultaneously foundational to what the United States is and strikingly absent in so many ways |
| 2:05.9 | from American life and politics. In combat trauma, imaginaries of war and citizenship |
| 2:13.1 | in post 9-11 America, anthropologist Nadia Abu Al-Haj has ridden one of the most important books |
| 2:20.1 | about this new era of American militarism, and Abu Al-Haj is my guest today. While it may seem as |
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