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Military Professional Practices: Material Arrangements, Social Structure, and Culture book cover

1st Edition

Military Professional Practices Material Arrangements, Social Structure, and Culture

By Hans Hasselbladh Copyright 2027
224 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

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

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