06072nam a22006255i 4500 978-3-031-51556-9 DE-He213 20251030111814.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240411s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031515569 978-3-031-51556-9 10.1007/978-3-031-51556-9 doi JZ6378-6405 JW bicssc POL069000 bisacsh JW thema Military Heroism in a Post-Heroic Era [electronic resource] / edited by Uzi Ben-Shalom, René Moelker, Nehemia Stern, Eyal Ben-Ari. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024. IX, 309 p. 13 illus., 9 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda The Military and Society, 3004-9636 Part one: Introduction -- Part Two: Re-examining Classic Approaches -- Which kind of hero? Thoughts on archetypes of military heroism. Joseph Soeters, Emeritus professor Tilburg University, the Netherlands, (jmml.soeters@gmail.com) The Morale Component of the Russia-Ukraine War. Adi Sherzer & Samuel Boumendil Han Solo and Professor Moriarty: what interviewing soldiers taught me about heroism. Morten Brænder, Aarhus University -- Part Three: Changing National Contexts -- Between Heroization and Victimization. Assessing Empirical Evidence of Representations of Veterans in a Pre- and Post-Heroic Era (UK) Rita Phillips, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen UK,Contact: r.phillips5@rgu.ac.uk, Vince Connelly,Oxford Brookes University, UK, vconnelly@brookes.ac.uk I (still) need a Hero: Civilians, Society and the Continuing Need for military Heroism and Heroes (Israel). Elisheva Rosman, Bar-Ilan University From zero to hero: A conceptual framework of creating and recreating heroism based on the Estonian experience. Kairi Kasearu, Tiia-Triin Truusa, Eleri Lillemäe Canada’s military and the post-heroic condition. Eric Ouellet, Ph.D. Department of Defence Studies, Royal Military College of Canada South Korea: Declining but Persistent Military Heroism. Insoo Kim Civilian and military perceptions of heroism in war in Norway. On diverging paths? Torunn Haaland -- Part Four: Contested and Questioning Contexts Japan: a pacified heroism. Saya Kiba and Atsushi Yasutomi Military heroism in Germany: A contested and ever-changing concept. Maren Tomforde Legitimate Use of Violence? Interrogating the Hero-Soldier of the Marawi War in the Philippines. Rosalie Arcala Hall and Duvince Zhalimar Dumpit University of the Philippines Visayas rbarcalahall@up.edu.ph -- Part Five: Emerging Form of Alternative Heroism: Illustrating the post-heroic hero? Portraying the technological hero in Israel. Oshri Bar-Gil -- Military Contractors in a Post-Heroic Society: Organizational Adaptation and Military Autonomy. Christopher Kinsey and Eyal Ben-Ari Heroism in the Context of a Global Pandemic: Canadian Armed Forces Domestic Deployment in Response to COVID-19. Keith Pearce, PhD, Kathy Michaud, PhD, Irina Goldenberg, PhD, & Matthew G. Huebner, MA. Epilogue -- Re-enchanting the Heroic Military and continued enchantment. René Moelker, Eyal Ben-Ari, Uzi Ben-Shalom, Nehemia Stern . This book explores the variety of forms that individual heroism and sacrifice can take in the context of contemporary military conflicts. It addresses three key questions: How has an enduring ideal of heroism been transformed by the nature of modern warfare? Are we now witnessing the emergence of new forms of exemplary military behavior? And, have new ideals of heroism (and by association, sacrifice or bravery) been added to older forms in the recent past? The book advocates viewing the concept of military heroism as a moral category, in which its theoretical definition and empirical practice reflect those factors that are seen as being vital for society itself. The key theoretical and topical challenges addressed in the respective chapters focus on how ideas of heroism become entwined with issues of individualization (bolstered by the cultural assumptions of neo-Liberalism), the spread of the human rights discourse, and the judicialization, marketization and mediatization of armed forces. The book was written by experts on military studies, including many who are currently active military personnel. It includes contributions from a variety of disciplines, e.g. anthropology, sociology, psychology, and political science. Politics and war. 68300 Political science. 58714 Sociology. 57193 Anthropology. 60002 Culture Study and teaching. 66082 Military and Defence Studies. 68301 Political Science. 58714 Sociology. 57193 Anthropology. 60002 Cultural Studies. 58745 Ben-Shalom, Uzi. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 75025 Moelker, René. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 75026 Stern, Nehemia. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 75027 Ben-Ari, Eyal. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 75028 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031515552 Printed edition: 9783031515576 Printed edition: 9783031515583 The Military and Society, 3004-9636 75029 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51556-9 ZDB-2-POS ZDB-2-SXPI 59077 59077