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Godfrey Richard - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • ‘Never call me a mercenary’: Identity work, stigma management and the private Security Contractor
    'SAGE Publications', 2018
    Co-Authors: Brewis Joanna, Godfrey Richard
    Abstract:

    Organisation studies has paid little attention to the contemporary private Security industry, despite its enormous recent growth as a supplement to or replacement for state military services in theatres of conflict. To address this neglect, we investigate the workers at the heart of the industry: private Security employees or Contractors. Amidst widespread and extremely critical media coverage of their activities, we consider the individual Contractor as a central agent of contemporary conflict, identifying three main objections to their deployment: a lack of just cause, virtue and professional legitimacy. Using scholarship on identity work and stigma management more specifically, we analyse Contractors’ accounts of their employment to identify the communicative strategies they employ to challenge the stigma attributed to their occupation and/or to them as incumbents. Our data set is memoirs written by five British Contractors, published between 2006 and 2011. We also suggest that data such as these are under-utilised in organisation studies’ treatment of identity work, because they represent a distinctive form of this work which we label identity writing

Richard Godfrey - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • ‘Never call me a mercenary’: Identity work, stigma management and the private Security Contractor:
    Organization, 2017
    Co-Authors: Joanna Brewis, Richard Godfrey
    Abstract:

    Organisation studies has paid little attention to the contemporary private Security industry, despite its enormous recent growth as a supplement to or replacement for state military services in theatres of conflict. To address this neglect, we investigate the workers at the heart of the industry: private Security employees or Contractors. Amidst widespread and extremely critical media coverage of their activities, we consider the individual Contractor as a central agent of contemporary conflict, identifying three main objections to their deployment: a lack of just cause, virtue and professional legitimacy. Using scholarship on identity work and stigma management more specifically, we analyse Contractors’ accounts of their employment to identify the communicative strategies they employ to challenge the stigma attributed to their occupation and/or to them as incumbents. Our data set is memoirs written by five British Contractors, published between 2006 and 2011. We also suggest that data such as these are u...

Brewis Joanna - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • ‘Never call me a mercenary’: Identity work, stigma management and the private Security Contractor
    'SAGE Publications', 2018
    Co-Authors: Brewis Joanna, Godfrey Richard
    Abstract:

    Organisation studies has paid little attention to the contemporary private Security industry, despite its enormous recent growth as a supplement to or replacement for state military services in theatres of conflict. To address this neglect, we investigate the workers at the heart of the industry: private Security employees or Contractors. Amidst widespread and extremely critical media coverage of their activities, we consider the individual Contractor as a central agent of contemporary conflict, identifying three main objections to their deployment: a lack of just cause, virtue and professional legitimacy. Using scholarship on identity work and stigma management more specifically, we analyse Contractors’ accounts of their employment to identify the communicative strategies they employ to challenge the stigma attributed to their occupation and/or to them as incumbents. Our data set is memoirs written by five British Contractors, published between 2006 and 2011. We also suggest that data such as these are under-utilised in organisation studies’ treatment of identity work, because they represent a distinctive form of this work which we label identity writing

Joanna Brewis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • ‘Never call me a mercenary’: Identity work, stigma management and the private Security Contractor:
    Organization, 2017
    Co-Authors: Joanna Brewis, Richard Godfrey
    Abstract:

    Organisation studies has paid little attention to the contemporary private Security industry, despite its enormous recent growth as a supplement to or replacement for state military services in theatres of conflict. To address this neglect, we investigate the workers at the heart of the industry: private Security employees or Contractors. Amidst widespread and extremely critical media coverage of their activities, we consider the individual Contractor as a central agent of contemporary conflict, identifying three main objections to their deployment: a lack of just cause, virtue and professional legitimacy. Using scholarship on identity work and stigma management more specifically, we analyse Contractors’ accounts of their employment to identify the communicative strategies they employ to challenge the stigma attributed to their occupation and/or to them as incumbents. Our data set is memoirs written by five British Contractors, published between 2006 and 2011. We also suggest that data such as these are u...

Ruth Margaret Delaforce - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • a mafia for the state mercenary soldiers and private Security Contractors 1946 2009
    2010
    Co-Authors: Ruth Margaret Delaforce
    Abstract:

    Mercenary soldiers are an historical constant. The emergence in the last two decades of a ‘new’ type of ‘mercenary’ – the private Security Contractor – has been portrayed as a feature of contemporary warfare, reflecting their acceptance by states into the international Security framework. Distinctions are drawn between mercenaries and private Contractors, with the latter being depicted as a post Cold War phenomenon, where demands for protection from weak states are met by ‘private armies.’ Key concerns with private Contractors are their access to the use of force, notionally a preserve of the state, and their capacity to operate unregulated, without state control. Critics argue that state inertia towards regulation facilitates the privatisation of warfare. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the relationship between private Security Contractors and states; in particular, the origins and mechanisms that allow private entities to operate, without regulation. Private Contractors are conceptualised as a tool to extend state interest, a potentially dangerous Security resource which requires a risk management approach by states. The question, of how states risk-manage private Security actors, has framed the research. This question is underpinned by enquiries into the nature of the relationship between states and private Security Contractors, the options available to states to retain control, and how these mechanisms operate in the private/public domain. A meta-review of the literature has been undertaken, with qualitative analysis of primary and secondary source data, and selective use of statistical information. Source texts include international Security, military history, risk, state-organised crime and analyses of the mafia. Empirical data contests the belief that private Security Contractors are a recent phenomenon, operating without state control. Security capabilities for strong states have always included