This book utilises the growing phenomenon of British soldier narratives from Iraq and Afghanistan to explore how British soldiers make sense of their role on these complex, multi-dimensional operations. It aims to intervene in the debates within critical feminist scholarship over whether soldiers can ever be agents of peace.

Autorentext

Claire Duncanson is a Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her research and teaching is focused at the intersection of international security, international development and gender politics.

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Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Can Soldiers Ever Be Used to Achieve Peace? Feminists Debate Military Intervention 3. What Can We Learn From Soldiers' Personal Narratives? Methodologies and Methods 4. British Soldier Identity and the Warfighting Ethos 5. British Soldiers Doing and Undoing Empire in Iraq and Afghanistan 6. Regendered Soldiers and the Transformation of Hegemonic Masculinity 7. Conclusion