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Civil-military relations have changed over time with respect to changing demographics, new domestic and international responsibilities, Industry-Defence cooperation, women in the armed forces and contemporary veteran wellbeing.The New Australian Military Sociology aims to provide an antipodean view to theorising civil-military entanglements and uses Australia’s unique geographic, political and cultural context to serve as a case study for other countries.
“This comprehensive and wide-ranging study offers an in-depth analysis of Australian civil-military relations. This insightful book also demonstrates how the tools of sociology can be effectively applied to better understand the social dynamics of military life in the contemporary world.” • Siniša Malešević, Professor of Sociology, University College, Dublin and CNAM Paris
“This book points to a critical gap in the discipline of military sociology … the authors have done a timely job in presenting a picture of the Australian military and civil-military relations”. • Barış Ateş, Turkish National Defence University
“This is a well-organized volume with a coherent structure, cogent arguments in each chapter and clarity in writing. It provides valuable insights and new perspectives which advance the field and inform current scholarly and professional thinking. It has relevance for both academic theory building and practitioner applications.” • Alan Okros, Canadian Forces College
Brad West is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of South Australia. His recent publications include Finding Gallipoli: Battlefield Remembrance and the Movement of Australian and Turkish History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). He is co-founder of the Military Organisation and Culture Studies Group with Cate Carter and is currently leading a large project on social influence and grey zone warfare for the Australian Department of Defence.
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Antipodean Insights into Civil-Military Relations
Brad West and Cate Carter
Chapter 1. Who Do We Think We Are? Demographic Changes in the Australian Defence Force and Implications for Social Legitimacy
Philip Hoglin
Chapter 2. Standing in the Picture: Autoethnographic Practice in Australian Military Research
Cate Carter
Chapter 3. The Australian Student Veteran Experience: Making Sense Using Lizzio’s Model
Ben Wadham, Lisa Andrewartha, Melanie K. T. Takarangi, Andrew Harvey, Brad West, Matthew Wyatt-Smith, Jodie Davis and Ella K. Moeck
Chapter 4. Resisting Change and Civilian Control: The Contested Terrain of New ADF Values
Jennifer Woodside and James Connor
Chapter 5. Symbolic Violence and the Politics of a Gender-Neutral Military
Donna Bridges and Elizabeth Wulff
Chapter 6. Interoperability, Domestic Disaster Response and Organisational Culture: Role Ambiguity between Military Personnel and Emergency Services in the 2019/20 Australian ‘Black Summer’ Bushfires
Haydn Mccomas and Brad West
Chapter 7. Australian Military Performativity: Implications for Separation
Hannah Taino-Spick and Sue Shore
Conclusion. Antipodean Military Sociology and the Future of Civil-Military Relations Analysis: the Promise of Civil Sphere Theory
Cate Carter and Brad West
Index