Patrons and Personnel: The Foreign Determinants of Military Recruitment Policies

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Max Z. Margulies
Keyword(s):  
Military Recruitment

Collective Military Resistance and Popular Power: Views from the Late Republic (90–31 BC)

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-255
Author(s):  
Dominic Machado
Keyword(s):  
Military Service ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Roman Army ◽  
Military Recruitment ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Collective Resistance ◽  
The Status ◽  
Action Taking ◽  
Popular Power

AbstractThis article attempts to read the phenomenon of collective resistance in the Roman army of the Late Republic as political action. Taking my inspiration from post-colonial theories of popular power, I contend that we should not understand acts of collective resistance in military settings as simple events activated by a singular cause, but rather as expressions of individual and collective grievances with the status quo. Indeed, the variant practices of military recruitment in the Late Republic, and the exploitative nature of Rome’s imperial rule put oppressed groups – Italians, provincials, and former slaves – in constant contact with the state apparatus. Thus, military service offered an essential space for political action in the first century BC. These findings help us to better understand how popular power could be realized beyond traditional institutional settings in this period.

DEATH AND THE MODERN EMPIRE: THE 1918–19 INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC IN INDIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 181-200
Author(s):  
David Arnold
Keyword(s):  
Influenza Pandemic ◽  
Influenza Epidemic ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Military Recruitment ◽  
Visual Evidence ◽  
Private Correspondence ◽  
Political Unrest ◽  
Food Shortages ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Great War

ABSTRACTIn India the 1918–19 influenza pandemic cost at least twelve million lives, more than in any other country; it caused widespread suffering and disrupted the economy and infrastructure. Yet, despite this, and in contrast to the growing literature on recovering the ‘forgotten’ pandemic in other countries, remarkably little was recorded about the epidemic in India at the time or has appeared in the subsequent historiography. An absence of visual evidence is indicative of a more general paucity of contemporary material and first-hand testimony. In seeking to explain this absence, it is argued that, while India was exposed to influenza as a global event and to the effects of its involvement in the Great War, the influenza episode needs to be more fully understood in terms of local conditions. The impact of the disease was overshadowed by the prior encounter with bubonic plague, by military recruitment and the war, and by food shortages and price rises that pushed India to the brink of famine. Subsumed within a dominant narrative of political unrest and economic discontent, the epidemic found scant expression in official documentation, public debate and/or even private correspondence.

scholarly journals Popular Religious Traditions, British Military Recruitment and the Social Construction of Masculinity in Colonial Haryana

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 31-39
Author(s):  
Rekha Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Physical Culture ◽  
Endogenous Factors ◽  
Military Recruitment ◽  
Folk Tales ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Vernacular Language ◽  
Folk Traditions ◽  
British Military ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ownership Of Land

It is generally assumed that colonial institutions and ideologies shaped the contours of masculinity in British India. This paper explores endogenous factors and attempts to supplement as well as contest such approaches and interpretations which claim that masculinity in India was a colonial construction. The emphasis is on folk traditions, religious customs, qaumi (folk) tales and physical culture akh???s (gymnasia) among the Jats in colonial Haryana,1 which went into the making of dominant masculinity in this region. The paper draws upon vernacular language materials and newspapers to analyse the different ways in which the socially endogenous forces constructed this masculinity. It argues that a complex interaction of popular religious traditions, qaumi narratives, military recruitment, marital caste designation, ownership of land, superior caste behaviour and strong bodily physique came to ideologically link and construct dominant masculinity in colonial Haryana.

Message Strategies in Military Recruitment Advertising

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 566-573 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sejin Park ◽  
Zienab Shoieb ◽  
Ronald E. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Television Commercials ◽  
High Involvement ◽  
Military Recruitment ◽  
Recruitment Advertising ◽  
Message Strategies ◽  
Practical Implications

This study investigates message strategies used in U.S. military commercials using Taylor’s six-segment strategy wheel. A content analysis of 125 military television commercials reveals that (1) majority of military commercials employed transformational strategy rather than informational strategy; (2) military commercials only used high involvement message strategies (i.e., ration, ego, and social) and no acute need, routine, and sensory commercials were observed; and (3) message strategies in military advertising varied across the number of wars and recruiting targets. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.

“Join the Army. Become the Power of China” – Multimodal Metaphors in Military Recruitment Advertising – “The Power of China”

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Sun ◽  
Mi Zhang ◽  
Lang Chen
Keyword(s):  
Military Culture ◽  
Military Recruitment ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Multimodal Analysis ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
Metaphor Theory ◽  
Short Video ◽  
Chinese Military ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Recruitment Advertising

Abstract Military recruitment advertising, as a type of authoritative political video advertisement, demonstrates a country’s military culture. This paper will provide a brand-new perspective in researching Chinese military culture from the approach of multimodal metaphor. Currently, a multimodal analysis of military recruitment advertising in terms of short video clips does not exist, and most of the existing multimodal studies have focused on Western mainstream media, whereas media with Chinese characteristics have remained mostly untouched by research. With Forceville and Urios-Aparisi’s (2009) Multimodal Metaphor Theory (MMT) as a theoretical basis, and the newly-released recruitment advertising “The Power of China” as the research object, this paper utilizes the MIPVU and ELAN image tagging software to identify and analyze the multimodal metaphors in “The Power of China” under the framework of MMT.

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