Different drummers : military culture and its discontents / edited by Tad Tuleja.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tuleja, Tad, 1944- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Insubordination.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Logan : Utah State University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Explores the disjunction between organizational solidarity and individual pushback in military organizations, examining how members of the armed forces express ambivalent or conflicted attitudes about their service. The volume focuses on psychological "discontent" within loyal opposition, considering examples of creative insubordination and analyzing 'oppositional positioning'"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : the myth of the robot soldier / Tad Tuleja

On the griping of grunts / Angus Kress Gillespie

Back chat : subversion and conformity in Dominion cartoons of the world wars / Christina M. Knopf

Warriors' bodies as sites of microresistance in the American military / John Paul Wallis & Jay Mechling

Jumping the chain : a military psychologist's story / Mark C. Russell

A captain's first duty : managing command disconnect in a combat zone / Ronald Fry

(De)composing the "Machine of Decomposition" : creative insubordination in E.E. Cummings's The Enormous Room / Matthew David Perry

Cafe colonels and whizz bangs / Tad Tuleja

The wild deserters of no man's land : a ghoulish legend of the Great War / James I. Deutsch

Breaking ranks : initiative and heroism in a Vietnam firefight / Richard Allen Burns

Challenging the male hierarchy : women warriors in Iraq and Afghanistan / Catherine Calloway

So I was a coffin : the war poetry of Gerardo Mena / Ron Ben-Tovim

Telling stories in war / Carol Burke

Discipline and the limits of unit cohesion / Tad Tuleja.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781607329527

1607329522

OCLC:

1157769791