Artiklar

2025-01-03

New article! Constructing “Society’s Soldiers”: Identity Work, (Total) Defence Willingness and the Swedish Home Guard by Malmström & Berndtsson

This article aims to contribute insight into how military organizations become involved in meaning-making and identity-building processes as they seek to engage individuals in defence work. To this end, we focus empirically on the communication of the Swedish Home Guard (SHG), an organization that bridges the civilian-military divide and address the following question: “How are constructions of collective identity in Swedish Home Guard communication interconnected with larger political strategies to increase (total) defence willingness?”.