Warrior Soldier Brigand : Institutional Abuse within the Australian Defence Force

Edité par Melbourne University Press, 2024. ISBN 9789780522879360.

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"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Card covers, xiv/242pp. A little wear to card edges including a 2cm crease across top free corner of front cover. A good copy. A forensic analysis of how institutionalised abuse in the Australian Defence Force has affected its personne. Questions of institutional abuse have been at the centre of numerous royal commissions, inquiries and reviews of the clergy, the police and defence forces over the past decade. This scrutiny has highlighted how those organisations foster forms of violence and violation. One of their principal characteristics is that the culture of abuse and its perpetration is largely the work of men. In Warrior Soldier Brigand, Ben Wadham and James Connor argue that three pillars shape the patterns of abuse in the Australian Defence Force: martial masculinities, military exceptionalism and fraternity. Historically, the military has been an almost exclusively male domain, but since the Vietnam War it has become an all-volunteer force and more culturally diverse, a change that has proven to be profoundly challenging, and one the ADF has not always readily welcomed nor sufficiently addressed. While the ADF may train and accommodate some of the best military personnel in the world, it has not resolved the use of that violent potential against its own. Exploring the fundamental paradox that underpins abuse in the military - an organisation of and for violence -Wadham and Connor report on the shifting landscape of the ADF since 1969, describing military institutional abuse across the decades and asking the question: to what extent can an authoritarian institution liberalise.…

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Titre
Warrior Soldier Brigand : Institutional Abuse within the Australian Defence Force
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Wadham, Ben and Connor, James
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Melbourne University Press, 2024. ISBN 9789780522879360.

Alexander Fax Booksellers

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