Identity and the Military Community in Roman Britain

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Haynes
Keyword(s):  
Roman Britain ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Gender Status ◽  
Military Community ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Religion And Ethnicity ◽  
The Military ◽  
Military Communities ◽  
Valuable Role

This chapter explores various approaches to gender, status, religion, and ethnicity within military communities in Roman Britain. It argues that the rich array of data found in and around the forts and fortresses offers a valuable opportunity to look afresh at how identities were defined and constructed. New approaches to this data have played a valuable role in counterbalancing the traditional focus on the official structures of Roman power, by offering a sense of the diversity of responses to these structures among soldiers and their dependants.

The Glorious Dead and Sacred Communities in Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan and Wajda’s Katyń

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-398
Author(s):  
Christopher Garbowski
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Ethical Dimension ◽  
Military Community ◽  
The Military ◽  
Military Communities

Historical memory is one of the keys to strengthening what Anthony Smith calls the “deep cultural resources” of national identity (Chosen Peoples 5). This article argues that in Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan of 1998 and Andrzej Wajda’s Katyń of 2007 a dialogue with sacred cultural resources takes place. Focusing as they do on wartime experiences of Americans and Poles, the historical memory brought to the fore in these films evokes the specific trials that the respective nations endured in WWII. Through the depiction of the military community at war, the films contribute to the underlying sacred national communities that remain to this day. The themes of commemoration implicit in the films foster an ethical dimension within the respective sacred communities, since commemoration of the wartime dead develops moral memory. Through the depictions of their sacrifice in both films, the glorious dead augment both the sacred sources of their immediate military communities and, either as heroes or victims, those of their larger national communities.

scholarly journals Civilian Structures as Military Restrictions

Vulcan ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-63
Author(s):  
Petter J. Wulff
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
Heavy Vehicles ◽  
World War ◽  
Military Community ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Military ◽  
Second World

The military community is a secluded part of society and normally has to act on the conditions offered by its civilian surroundings. When heavy vehicles were developed for war, the civilian infrastructure presented a potential restriction to vehicular mobility. In Sweden, bridges were seen as a critical component of this infrastructure. It took two decades and the experiences of a second world war for the country to come to terms with this restriction. This article addresses the question as to why Swedish tanks suddenly became much heavier in the early 1940s. The country’s bridges play a key role in what happened, and the article explains how. It is a story about how a military decision came to be outdated long before it was upgraded.

scholarly journals Preventing Obesity in the Military Community (POMC): The Development of a Clinical Trials Research Network

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1174-1195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Spieker ◽  
Tracy Sbrocco ◽  
Kelly Theim ◽  
Douglas Maurer ◽  
Dawn Johnson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trials ◽  
Research Network ◽  
Military Community ◽  
The Military

Perceptions of family acceptance into the military community among U.S. LGBT service members: A mixed-methods study

2021 ◽  
pp. e20210019
Author(s):  
Katherina S. Sullivan ◽  
Jessica Dodge ◽  
Kathleen McNamara ◽  
Rachael Gribble ◽  
Mary Keeling ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Service Members ◽  
Family Services ◽  
Family Acceptance ◽  
Lgbt Families ◽  
Chain Of Command ◽  
Military Community ◽  
The Military

Lay Summary There are approximately 16,000 families of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) service members in the U.S. military, but very little is known about how accepted they feel in the communities in which they live. This study begins to address this question by considering the perspectives of LGBT service members, which they shared both in response to an online survey and in interviews. Findings suggest that many service members believe their spouses and families are accepted by their chain of command. However, a smaller but important group continued to express concerns about their family being accepted in their military community. Many service members appear concerned that family services available to them through the military are not appropriate for LGBT families. Altogether, this article highlights the need for more research to understand the well-being and needs of this group.

The age of ‘Agricolamania’: early modern uses and abuses of Tacitus’ Agricola

2020 ◽  
pp. 131-148
Author(s):  
Alan Montgomery
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
The Political ◽  
Roman Britain ◽  
Historical Information ◽  
Literary Source ◽  
The North ◽  
The Military

The Agricola of Tacitus is the most extensive surviving ancient literary source on Roman Britain, and much of it deals with the Roman general Agricola’s conquest of Caledonia. Apparently providing evidence of the military prowess and civilising intentions of Rome whilst also describing a brave Caledonian hero named Calgacus, the text could be interpreted differently according to the political and patriotic affiliations of its early modern readers. As chapter seven will reveal, the Agricola would become something of an obsession amongst Scotland’s antiquarians, providing historical information on Roman exploits in the north but also lacking key geographical and historical details, encouraging conjecture which sometimes tipped into pure fantasy. As a result, a phenomenon christened ‘Agricolamania’ had already been noted by the end of the eighteenth century.

Huddled Masses

2019 ◽  
pp. 169-189
Author(s):  
Andrew Marble
Keyword(s):  
Humanitarian Intervention ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Premature Baby ◽  
Humanitarian Assistance ◽  
Baby Girl ◽  
Modus Operandi ◽  
Humanitarian Mission ◽  
Military Community ◽  
The Military ◽  
Inherent Part

The chapter is set on April 19, 1991, during Lieutenant General John Shalikashvili’s very first inspection of a mountain refugee camp (Isikveren). The chapter demonstrates the absolute misery of life in the camps and outlines the suffering and looming potential for massive death. It reviews the progress the international humanitarian mission has accomplished so far and the upcoming shift in mission goal from “humanitarian assistance” to “humanitarian intervention,” which means Shalikashvili now faces the herculean task of moving all 500,000+ Kurds out of the mountains. Seeing the misery in the camp, Shalikashvili recalls his own suffering when he’d lost people he loved, particularly his loss, within weeks of each other, of both his premature baby girl and his cancer-stricken wife. It explains how all these blows—these “betrayals” by people he loved—are what helped push him to make the military his closest family, to make caring for and even loving the military community an inherent part of his leadership modus operandi.

scholarly journals Demystifying the “Victimized State”

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross McGarry
Keyword(s):  
Iraq War ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Military Institution ◽  
The Military ◽  
Military Communities ◽  
Public Imagination ◽  
Policy Arena

The purpose of this article is to illustrate prescient issues relating to current and ex-military communities in the United Kingdom who have featured heavily within the policy arena over the past decade in relation to several key areas of importance. It will be illustrated how this population becomes visible within the public imagination (via military losses), how discourses relating to the harms they experience are structured and articulated within political and policy domains (particularly in relation to mental health) via “state talk” (qua Sim), and what the potential social consequences are for politically rendering an unproblematized populist view of current and ex-military communities (i.e., pending crises). This argument is made with the express intention of reengaging critical recognition of the distancing of the military institution from the physical and psychological vulnerability of those who have participated in war and military environments. This is an argument returned to pertinence from the recent publication of the Chilcot Inquiry into British involvement in the Iraq war.

Roman Military Culture

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay Allason-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Military Culture ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
Roman Britain ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The People ◽  
Roman Military ◽  
The Military

A significant proportion of the people who lived in Roman Britain were linked to the military either as soldiers, dependants or suppliers. Did the objects these people used in their daily lives identify them as being from a military milieu? How did the Roman soldiers’ armour and weapons differ from those of the Britons? This chapter investigates the assemblages of artefacts found on military sites, discusses how they got there and what they tell us about war and peace in Roman Britain.

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