Military Professional Practices

Material Arrangements, Social Structure, and Culture
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-13351-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Cass Military Studies

This book analyzes military professional practices with respect to differences in their social structure, material embedding, and cultural patterns.

The volume offers a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the military institutional and organizational landscape, highlighting variation, heterogeneity, and diverging beliefs in military organization, in contrast to the traditional image of a monolithic, unitary, and authoritarian institution. In particular, the volume provides a widened empirical focus beyond infantry units to include the air force and navy. The overall conclusion of the book is that military organizations are a lot more variegated and internally differentiated than their public image implies and what previous research has suggested.

This book will be of much interest to students of military studies, sociology, defense studies, and international relations.

Chapters 1 and 10 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International license.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hasselbladh, Hans

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Institutional Roots and Material Foundations of the Military Chapter 3 Agency and Materiality Chapter 4 Research on Culture in Military Organizations Chapter 5 Studying Military Organizations as Cultures Chapter 6 The Contemporary Institutional Context of the Swedish Armed Forces Chapter 7 "That's What’s Said": Fragments of an Organizational Ideology Chapter 8 Style, Mood, and Separate Worlds in the Armed Forces Chapter 9 Borders, Distinctions, and Fluid categories Chapter 10 The Material Embedding of Military Practices Chapter 11 Military Professional Practice and Control Chapter 12 Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Hans Hasselbladh is Professor of Organization Research at Örebro University, Sweden.