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August 3, 2026Symbolic InteractionOpen Access

When Time Stands Still: The Destructive Experience of Ambiguous Loss among Mothers of Combat Soldiers

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SBShirly Bar‐LevGDGalit Itzhaki DraizinAGAgamit Gelb

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Overview

Ethnographic analysis shows how ambiguous loss disrupts everyday life for mothers of combat soldiers, indicating a shift in understanding trauma.

Key Points

  • This research aims to examine the impact of ambiguous loss among mothers of combat soldiers and how it affects their everyday lives.
  • Conducted ethnographic interviews with mothers of combat soldiers to gather personal narratives.
  • Analyzed the narratives through the lens of interpretive anthropology and trauma studies.
  • Mothers experience a contraction of time and space, leading to suspended routines and disrupted temporal orientation.
  • Ambiguous loss creates interpretive and ethical crises that challenge traditional cultural frameworks.
  • The findings suggest that rather than seeing these experiences as failures to make sense, they reflect resistances to enforced closure.

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Bar‐Lev et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a70402275942ff7265e4df5https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.70067
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