Dr Cate Carter
School of Society and Culture
College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences
Dr Cate Carter is an Officer in the Australian Army and a scholar in culture and identity. She holds a PhD in Military Sociology from Deakin University and is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the University of South Australia. With Brad West, Cate is a co-founder of the Military Organisation and Culture Studies Group and a member of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society. Cate was the Managing Editor of the Australian Army Journal from 2017 to 2020, and has recently co-founded the ADF Creative Arts Association.
Doctoral Thesis
2020, ‘Cultural Characteristics of the Australian Civil-Military Relationship’, PhD Thesis, Deakin University, Melbourne, https://deakin.academia.edu/CateCarter/Thesis-Chapters
Book Chapters
2024, ‘Antipodean Insights into Civil-Military Relations’, in The New Australian Military Sociology: Antipodean Perspectives (Eds. Brad West and Cate Carter), Berghahn Books, New York (Aug 2024) https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/WestNew
2024, ‘Standing in the Picture: Reflexive Practice in Australian Military Research’, in The New Australian Military Sociology: Antipodean Perspectives (Eds. Brad West and Cate Carter), Berghahn Books, New York (Aug 2024) https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/WestNew
2024, ‘Antipodean Militar Sociology and the Future of Civil-Military Relations Analysis: The Promise of Civil Sphere Theory’, in The New Australian Military Sociology: Antipodean Perspectives (Eds. Brad West and Cate Carter), Berghahn Books, New York (Aug 2024) https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/WestNew
2021, ‘Recasting the Warrior: The Victoria Cross for Australia and contemporary civil-military relations’, in Militarization and the Global Rise of Paramilitary Culture: Post-Heroic Reimaginings of the Warrior, Eds. Brad West ad Thomas Crosbie, Springer. https://www.waterstones.com/book/militarization-and-the-global-rise-of-paramilitary-culture/brad-west/thomas-crosbie/9789811655876
| Year | Citation |
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| 2024 | West, B., & Carter, C. (2024). Introduction: antipodean insights into civil-military relations. In B. West, & C. Carter (Eds.), Source details - Title: The New Australian Military Sociology: antipodean perspectives (pp. 1-28). US: Berghahn Books. DOI |
| 2024 | Carter, C., & West, B. (2024). Conclusion: antipodean military sociology and the future of civil-military relations analysis: the promise of civil sphere theory. In B. West, & C. Carter (Eds.), Source details - Title: The New Australian Military Sociology: Antipodean perspectives (Vol. 2, pp. 180-194). US: Berghahn Books. DOI |
| 2021 | Carter, C. (2021). Recasting the warrior: the Victoria Cross for Australia and contemporary civil-military relations. In B. West, & T. Crosbie (Eds.), Source details - Title: Militarization and the Global Rise of Paramilitary Culture: Post-Heroic Reimaginings of the Warrior (pp. 37-54). Singapore: Springer. DOI Scopus3 |
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