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Growing Up in Armyville: Canada´s Military Families during the Afghanistan Mission
Deborah Harrison
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Description for Growing Up in Armyville: Canada´s Military Families during the Afghanistan Mission
Paperback. Growing Up in Armyville provides a compelling portrait of youth from Canadian Forces families, based on surveys and interviews, as they coped with the stresses of Canada's deployments to Afghanistan." Num Pages: 215 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JM; HBWS4; JWT; VFV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 374.
It was 2006, and eight hundred soldiers from the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) base in pseudonymous Armyville, Canada, were scheduled to deploy to Kandahar. Many students in the Armyville school district were destined to be affected by this and several subsequent deployments. These deployments, however, represented such a new and volatile situation that the school district lackedaas indeed most Canadians lackedathe understanding required for an optimum organizational response. Growing Up in Armyville provides a close-up look at the adolescents who attended Armyville High School (AHS) between 2006 and 2010. How did their mental health compare with that of ... Read more
It was 2006, and eight hundred soldiers from the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) base in pseudonymous Armyville, Canada, were scheduled to deploy to Kandahar. Many students in the Armyville school district were destined to be affected by this and several subsequent deployments. These deployments, however, represented such a new and volatile situation that the school district lackedaas indeed most Canadians lackedathe understanding required for an optimum organizational response. Growing Up in Armyville provides a close-up look at the adolescents who attended Armyville High School (AHS) between 2006 and 2010. How did their mental health compare with that of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
373 g
Number of Pages
258
Place of Publication
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
ISBN
9781771122344
SKU
V9781771122344
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About Deborah Harrison
Deborah Harrison is a professor (retired) and adjunct professor of sociology at the University of New Brunswick and a former member of the Canadian Forces Advisory Council to Veterans Affairs Canada. She is co-author of No Life Like It: Military Wives in Canada (1994) and author of The First Casualty: Violence Against Women in Canadian Military Communities (2002) and numerous ... Read more
Reviews for Growing Up in Armyville: Canada´s Military Families during the Afghanistan Mission
a groundbreaking work... meticulous, accessible examination of a ... military town's home-front reactions to the deployment of troops ... [which] contextualizes the war while analyzing [its] often devastating effect ... on their children .... [It] is bolstered by extensive, frequently heartbreaking, firsthand stories of ... adolescent[s], who ... must deal with ... new responsibilities as parent substitutes, and [the] ... ... Read more