TY - JOUR
T1 - From warfare to welfare: veterans, military charities and the blurred spatiality of post-service welfare in the United Kingdom
AU - Herman, Agatha
AU - Yarwood, Richard
PY - 2015/12/9
Y1 - 2015/12/9
N2 - The military offers a form of welfare-for-work but when personnel leave they lose this safety net, a loss exacerbated by the rollback neoliberalism of the contemporary welfare state. Increasingly the third sector has stepped in to address veterans’ welfare needs through operating within and across military/civilian and state/market/community spaces and cultures. In this paper we use both veterans’ and military charities’ experiences to analyse the complex politics that govern the liminal boundary zone of post-military welfare. Through exploring ‘crossing’ and ‘bridging’ we conceptualise military charities as ‘boundary subjects’, active yet dependent on the continuation of the civilian-military binary, and argue that the latter is better understood as a multidirectional, multiscalar and contextual continuum. Post-military welfare emerges as a competitive, confused and confusing assemblage that needs to be made more navigable in order to better support the ‘heroic poor’.
AB - The military offers a form of welfare-for-work but when personnel leave they lose this safety net, a loss exacerbated by the rollback neoliberalism of the contemporary welfare state. Increasingly the third sector has stepped in to address veterans’ welfare needs through operating within and across military/civilian and state/market/community spaces and cultures. In this paper we use both veterans’ and military charities’ experiences to analyse the complex politics that govern the liminal boundary zone of post-military welfare. Through exploring ‘crossing’ and ‘bridging’ we conceptualise military charities as ‘boundary subjects’, active yet dependent on the continuation of the civilian-military binary, and argue that the latter is better understood as a multidirectional, multiscalar and contextual continuum. Post-military welfare emerges as a competitive, confused and confusing assemblage that needs to be made more navigable in order to better support the ‘heroic poor’.
UR - https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/context/gees-research/article/1937/viewcontent/Warfare_20to_20Welfare_20final_20draft.pdf
U2 - 10.1177/0308518x15614844
DO - 10.1177/0308518x15614844
M3 - Article
SN - 0308-518X
VL - 47
SP - 2628
EP - 2644
JO - Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
JF - Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
IS - 12
ER -
