CASCA/SANA2016 panel CFP: Becoming a Veteran: Investigating the Transition from Military to Civilian Life in the Canadian Context

Becoming a Veteran: Investigating the Transition from Military to
Civilian Life in the Canadian Context

Session to be submitted for the CASCA/SANA meetings at Dalhousie
University, 11-15 May 2016
Following over a decade of constant deployment in Afghanistan
(2001-2014) by soldiers of the Canadian Armed Forces, there is a
renewed interest in how soldiers transition to civilian life after
leaving the military. The majority of the published research is based
on depersonalized and anonymous surveys, leading to policies and
programs that are based on the aggregate but applied to the
individual. This, in turn, has led to repeated criticisms from the
veterans' community that the available programs do not meet their
needs or are inaccessible. This panel seeks to explore: (1) the ways
in which veterans have navigated the available programs and supports;
(2) the ways in which solidarity thru shared identity affects the
transition from the role of soldier to that of being a veteran within
Canadian civilian society; and (3) the unique forms of interaction
with society that transitioning veterans have engaged in an attempt to
shape their new identities.

Please send short abstracts (150 words) by 31 January 2016 to:

Walter Callaghan
PhD student
Department of Anthropology
University of Toronto
w.callaghan@mail.utoronto.ca

More information about the CASCA/ SANA (Canadian Anthropology
Society/Society for the Anthropology of North America) meetings,
including registration fees, is available at: http://cascasana2016.com/