SADF soldiers’ silences: institutional, consensual and strategic

This article treats silence as a collective phenomenon. Silence can be proscribed and enforced, socially conditioned and sanctioned, or voluntarily embraced. All forms were evident in the case of soldiers who served in the South African Defence Force (SADF). First, they acquiesced to an institution...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gary Baines
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Free State 2015-01-01
Series:Acta Academica
Online Access:https://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/aa/article/view/1481