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Rethinking Reintegration and Veteran Identity

A New Consciousness

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Authors:
  1. Jeni Ruth Hunniecutt

    1. Ronin Institute, Montclair, USA

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  • Draws on concepts of liminality and identity (re)negotiation to examine the veteran experience

  • Uniquely provides an autoethnographic addition to military research

  • Proposes and advocates a new conceptualization for r

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. (The) U.S. Military: (My) Service

    • Jeni Ruth Hunniecutt
    Pages 1-35

  3. My Veteran Identity (Crisis): Suicides and Reintegration

    • Jeni Ruth Hunniecutt
    Pages 37-73

  4. Writing Through Layers of Veteran Liminality

    • Jeni Ruth Hunniecutt
    Pages 75-94

  5. Loss of Community: Searching for and Finding Home

    • Jeni Ruth Hunniecutt
    Pages 95-115

  6. Loss of Structure: Resisting and Finding (My) Voice

    • Jeni Ruth Hunniecutt
    Pages 117-135

  7. You Can’t Go Back

    • Jeni Ruth Hunniecutt
    Pages 137-168

  8. Adapt and Overcome

    • Jeni Ruth Hunniecutt
    Pages 169-208

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 209-213
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About this book

This book analyzes and discusses the U.S. Military Veteran identity. Throughout seven chapters spanning narrative, literature, theory and analysis, the book combines the author’s own personal story of joining, serving in, and separating from the U.S. military with corresponding research about military transitions, reintegration, Veteran suicides, and psychosocial adjustment challenges. The purpose of the book is to help readers understand Veteran identity in a way that centers the social implications of belonging to and serving in the military institution. In the final chapters of the book, existing theories and models related to military transitions are dissected before a new Model of Veteran Identity Hierarchy as well as a reconceptualization of Veteran identity are presented.

Reviews

Dr. Hunniecutt’s personal accounts as a military service member, her transition into full-time civilian life, and her academic research combined with her own journey of reconciling how her Veteran status is part of who she is has led her to develop a compelling new framework for understanding Veteran identity. Hunniecutt’s conceptualization of Veteran identity is based on the identity recruits bring to the military and a natural continuum of their experiences as a service member in relationship to the ultimate sacrifice.  As a civilian trying to understand an important group of people in my country and as a researcher looking to do research with Veterans, I will be regularly using this book as a resource to do the best I can to learn about Veterans and be there for them.

-Aaron T. Anderson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

 For anyone who has ever used the term "veteran", I urge you to read Jeni's story. It is a raw, honest look at the struggles that come with trying to find one's identity before, after, and during military service. It's also a glimmer hope that through research, communication, and deconstructing our preconceived notions that maybe we can better understand what each warrior carries in their rucksack of life. In return we may just save more warriors from taking their lives.

-Abbie Holland Schmit, Iraq War Veteran

 In this book, Dr. Hunniecutt considers a new way to conceptualize the archetype of a military “Veteran” as an identity, product, and process. She vulnerably walks the reader through her own journey before enlistment and then guides an investigation of her own destructive “non-deployment emotions” after her service. She then deftly identifies the invisible apex of “Veteran” identity and the resulting identity conflict and distress that occurs for all people who have made it out of the military alive.

-Jacob N. Hyde, Iraq War Veteran, Clinical Psychologist

 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Ronin Institute, Montclair, USA

    Jeni Ruth Hunniecutt

About the author

Jeni Ruth Hunniecutt is a Research Scholar at the Ronin Institute, the Owner and Director of Veteran Research Consulting LLC, and an Adjunct Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Community Health at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Rethinking Reintegration and Veteran Identity

  • Book Subtitle: A New Consciousness

  • Authors: Jeni Ruth Hunniecutt

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93754-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-93753-9Published: 08 February 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-93756-0Published: 09 February 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-93754-6Published: 07 February 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 213

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Ethnography, Social Anthropology, Anthropology

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