“We’re Not Invisible…We’re In Second Place.” Disrupting (Thus Connecting) Transnational Gender Narratives Within Veterans Studies

In this short video contribution, I share and explore an insight emerging from ongoing ethnographic fieldwork in Southeast Europe. This is part of a broader anthropological research project alongside combat veterans number nationalities (and ethnicities) Former Yugoslavia, including Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo. The brief accompanying abstract opens with series portraits women war Croatia (who served the Croatian War Independence between 1991–1995 beyond) order to center voices that inform contribution. format also foregrounds discussion questions seemingly default or generalized usage “invisibility” trope within academic narratives seek reflect represent their socio-political realities; transnationally cross-culturally. It demonstrated invisibility not universally embraced acknowledged by as such, must be more carefully developed deployed field studies. Recognition need disrupt adjust tropes emerge North Atlantic-centric facilitates present-day reflexivity well future efforts toward decolonized/decentered study. View at https://youtu.be/J3_v2z22ibQ.