The New Australian Military Sociology

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