Overview
Examines paramilitary culture and para-militarization that reflects major shifts away from classical militarism
Connects and updates theories about shifts in the image of the warrior first developed in the 1980s
Takes an interdisciplinary perspective and contains international cases studies
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This edited book demonstrates a new multidimensional comprehension of the relationship between war, the military and civil society by exploring the global rise of paramilitary culture. Moving beyond binary understandings that inform the militarization of culture thesis and examining various national and cultural contexts, the collection outlines ways in which a process of paramilitarization is shaping the world through the promotion of new warrior archetypes. It is argued that while the paramilitary hero is associated with military themes, their character is in tension with the central principals of modern military organization, something that often challenges the state’s perceived monopoly on violence. As such paramilitization has profound implications for institutional military identity, the influence of paramilitary organizations and broadly how organised violence is popularly understood
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Keywords
- advancements of paramilitary culture
- paramilitarization of society
- globalization of paramilitary culture
- post-heroic warfare in popular culture forms
- power of paramilitary organizations
- civil-military relations
- armed forces and society
- problematization of military power
- military gender
- militarization of culture
- paramilitary warrior and social memory
- military culture in popular digitized culture
- warriors and masculine identity
- heroes and anti-heroes
- war studies
- military culture
- Policing
Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Paramilitary Group Frames
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Thomas Crosbie is an Associate Professor of Military Studies and Military Operations at the Royal Danish Defence College. His research is focused on the nexus between domestic political processes and military organization. He has published more than a dozen articles on the related topics of military politics, civil-military relations, military professionalism, military scandal and the privatization of security. He is a chief editor of The Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies and co-edited The Sociology of Privatized Security (Palgrave Macmillan).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Militarization and the Global Rise of Paramilitary Culture
Book Subtitle: Post-Heroic Reimaginings of the Warrior
Editors: Brad West, Thomas Crosbie
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5588-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-5587-6Published: 14 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-5590-6Published: 15 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-5588-3Published: 12 October 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 191
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Culture, Military and Defence Studies, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Policing, Cultural Studies, Popular Culture