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“You Bring It, We'll Bring It Out”
“You Bring It, We’ll Bring It Out” Becoming a Soldier in the New Zealand Army A thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Social Anthropology at Massey University New Zealand. Manawatū, Nina Harding 2016 Copyright is owned by the Author of the thesis. Permission is given for a copy to be downloaded by an individual for the purpose of research and private study only. The thesis may not be reproduced elsewhere without the permission of the Author. Abstract The transition from civilian to soldier is a process of identity acquisition. Based on participant-observation, this thesis follows a cohort of new soldiers through the first year and a half of their careers in the New Zealand Army, from their first day of Basic Training to their first overseas deployment. Both the Army as an institution and its individual soldiers are explicitly self-reflexive, and I use not only academic theory but also soldiers’ own theories of identity and identity acquisition to make sense of the experience of becoming a soldier. I show that although recruits undergo change in becoming soldiers, they simultaneously retain pre-service identities. Using Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of practice, I argue that civilians join the Army because of a shared “primary habitus”, a pre-existing identification with action, productivity and continual self-improvement through facing challenges that forms recruits’ earliest embodied understandings of themselves. The relationship between this “practical” habitus and the new soldier habitus to be acquired is key to understanding the civilian-soldier transition. -
Notable Alumni
NOTABLE ALUMNI A large number of the Institute for Strategic Leadership’s alumni have stepped up to senior positions. Here follows some examples. • Hon “Bill” English (Simon William) is the Deputy Queensland Theatre Company. (SLP 1) Prime Minister, Minister of Finance and Minister • Mark Powell - Chief Executive of the Warehouse Group of Infrastructure of New Zealand (SLP 13) • Mike Bush, MNZM - Commissioner of New Zealand • Air Marshal Sir Bruce Reid Ferguson KNZM, Police and Chief Constable. (LP 11, SLP 30, CE CLASS 3) OBE, AFC, RNZAF -former Chief of New Zealand Defence Force and Director (ALP) • Paul Hargreaves, ONZM - co-founder of Datacom, former Chief Executive of National Institute of Water • Christine Leighton, Rector, St. Andrew’s College, and Atmosphere (NIWA), former Chair of New Zealand Christchurch, New Zealand (SLP1) Institute of Directors and Antarctica New Zealand (SLP 3) • Christopher Brown, AM - former Managing • Peter Reidy - Chief Executive at New Zealand Railways Director of the Tourism and Transport Forum, Australia, Corporation. Previously Chief Operating Offcer of Downer Chairman of Taylor Street Advisory, President of United Infrastructure Services at Downer EDI Limited (SLP 6) Nations World Tourism Organisation, Adjunct Professor of Business (UTS), and Board Member, University of • Major General Peter Warwick “Gus” Gilmore, AO, Western Sydney (SLP 15) DSC - was appointed Special Operations Commander Australia in January 2011. On 19 September 2013 he • Craig Norgate - former chief executive offcer of was appointed -
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“You Bring It, We’ll Bring It Out” Becoming a Soldier in the New Zealand Army A thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Social Anthropology at Massey University New Zealand. Manawatū, Nina Harding 2016 Copyright is owned by the Author of the thesis. Permission is given for a copy to be downloaded by an individual for the purpose of research and private study only. The thesis may not be reproduced elsewhere without the permission of the Author. Abstract The transition from civilian to soldier is a process of identity acquisition. Based on participant-observation, this thesis follows a cohort of new soldiers through the first year and a half of their careers in the New Zealand Army, from their first day of Basic Training to their first overseas deployment. Both the Army as an institution and its individual soldiers are explicitly self-reflexive, and I use not only academic theory but also soldiers’ own theories of identity and identity acquisition to make sense of the experience of becoming a soldier. I show that although recruits undergo change in becoming soldiers, they simultaneously retain pre-service identities. Using Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of practice, I argue that civilians join the Army because of a shared “primary habitus”, a pre-existing identification with action, productivity and continual self-improvement through facing challenges that forms recruits’ earliest embodied understandings of themselves. The relationship between this “practical” habitus and the new soldier habitus to be acquired is key to understanding the civilian-soldier transition. -
New Zealand's Defence Diplomacy in Asia
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by ResearchArchive at Victoria University of Wellington “NEITHER STAUNCH FRIENDS NOR CONFIRMED FOES” NEW ZEALAND’S DEFENCE DIPLOMACY IN ASIA BY JUSTIN FRIS A thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in International Relations Victoria University of Wellington 2013 ii iii Abstract Read a recent Defence White Paper of any number of countries or look at the range of foreign relations one country has with others in the contemporary age, and one is likely to come across the term ‘defence diplomacy.’ The traditional function of armed forces has been to prepare for and undertake the use of force. As part of this role, armed forces have cooperated with those of other nations to enhance security by countering or deterring potential enemies. In the post-Cold War era however, a new form of defence relations has emerged; in contrast to, yet supplementing their traditional role, armed forces have been employed in building cooperative relationships between former and potential future foes. This shift is explained by the concept of defence diplomacy; the concept identified by Andrew Cottey and Anthony Forster that armed forces have a peacetime role in pursuit of broader foreign and security policy goals. Recognising that defence cooperation activities have a long history, Cottey and Forster differentiated defence diplomacy between ‘old,’ meaning those traditional defence cooperation activities aimed at allies and friendly states, and ‘new,’ meaning defence cooperation aimed at potential or former enemies.