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Understanding the Impact of Social Research on the Military: Reflections and Critiques book cover

1st Edition

Understanding the Impact of Social Research on the Military Reflections and Critiques

Edited By Eyal Ben-Ari, Helena Carreiras, Celso Castro Copyright 2022
150 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

150 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

150 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book seeks to chart and evaluate the impact of social research on the military itself. By "impact", the authors in this volume simply mean that which has a marked effect or influence on changing military policy, practices, knowledge, skills, behaviour, or living conditions. The book comprises a series of reflective contributions from scholars who have conducted research on the military as... Read more

Introduction

Eyal Ben-Ari, Helena Carreiras and Celso Castro

1. Truth in Military Studies: Lessons for Producers and Consumers of Research on the Military

David R. Segal

2. Military sociology in Germany: The Roles and Challenges of In-house Institutes

Martin Elbe and Gerhard Kuemmel

3. What does Social Science Research on the Military "Do"? Between Academic Ornament and Dubious Ally of the Israeli Military

Eyal Ben-Ari

4. Bridging two worlds: the knowledge-policy linkage in the study of the Portuguese Armed Forces

Helena Carreiras

5. Between Academia and the Military profession: a case study of Finnish National Defence University

Soili Paananen

6. Research as a Totem: How an Academic Book became the Patrimony of a Generation of Officers

Celso Castro

7. Notes on the Appropriation of an Ethnography: The Case of the Military Police of the State of São Paulo

Piero de Camargo Leirner

8. Possibilities of impact and acceptance of research and public policies with a gender perspective in the Argentine Armed Forces

Laura Masson

Biography

Eyal Ben-Ari is a research fellow at the Institute for Society, Security and Peace, Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel.

Helena Carreiras is director of the National Defense Institute, Portugal, and Associate Professor, University Institute of Lisbon.

Celso Castro is full professor and dean of the School of Social Sciences, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil.

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