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The life stories of a group of white war veterans Nicole Dickson (19331401) Theology Narrative therapy Pastoral theology Pastoral care Deconstruction Externalisation Metaphors Closed socialisation environment Typification Institutionalisation Legitimation Reification Social constructionism War narratives Landscape of militaristic masculinity Combat trauma Rehumanisation Storytelling Migration of identity SDG 3 Good health and wellbeing <p dir="ltr">This research explores the effects that storytelling and participation in rituals and ceremonies have on the ‘narratives of war’ of a group of white South African ‘border war’ veterans returning to the site of encounter in Angola.<br></p><p dir="ltr">Methodology for the research is an ‘interdisciplinary’ qualitative social constructionism method as a scaffold for a pastoral narrative approach. The gathering of personal stories helped explore the influence of master narratives, the effects of the border war; the intricacy of political and religious ideology on Afrikaans speaking South Africans; the effects of living with the current narrative of illegitimacy of the border war and the role of storytelling, rituals and ceremonies in re-authoring post-war narratives and migrations of identity.</p> 2024-08-08T07:37:59Z Dataset Dataset 10.25403/UPresearchdata.26503984.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/The_life_stories_of_a_group_of_white_war_veterans/26503984 CC BY 4.0