Surviving the Long Wars Creative Rebellion at the Ends of Empire

Surviving the Long Wars offers a groundbreaking exploration into the complex histories of US warfare and militarism, illuminating the pivotal role of art in cultivating justice, healing, and abolition. This edited volume-featuring poetry, scholarly essays, exhibition documentation, and more-builds from and continues the profound impact and critical legacy of the 2023 Veteran Art Triennial and Summit held in Chicago."We have much to learn about how questions of race, indigeneity, colonization, war, and survival are lived daily from our engagement with on-the-ground activists and artists who work with marginalized populations as well as veterans of US wars. It is not often that combat veterans get to sit down with artists and academics to think about the needs of these overlapping communities. together," says co-editor Dr. Ronak K. Kapadia. Publisher.