Sergio Catignani
Biographic Data
| ID | 305707 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sergio Catignani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sergio |
| FAMILY NAME | Catignani |
| SIGNATURE | CATIGNANI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6627-2477 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 101 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Necropolitical policing and the limits of reform in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas
This article examines the militarized policing of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas through the concept of necropolitics, arguing that state security interventions operate less as protective mechanisms than as instruments of racialized violence and sovereign control. It shows how Rio’s Military Police govern favelas not through the formal rule of law but through occupation, surveillance, and discretionary violence and impunity, producing zones of exceptio…
The gendered politics of researching military policy in the age of the ‘knowledge economy’
This article explores our experiences of conducting feminist interpretive research on the British Army Reserves. The project, which examined the everyday work-Army-life balance challenges that reservists face, and the roles of their partners/spouses in enabling them to fulfil their military commitments, is an example of a potential contribution to the so-called ‘knowledge economy’, where publicly funded research has come to be seen as ‘functional…
Introduction to the Armed Forces & Society Forum on Military Reserves in the 'New Wars
This Armed Forces & Society forum is dedicated to exploring recent trends in the characteristics of military reserves and of the changing character of reserve forces within the armed forces within the military, the civilian sphere, and in between them. To bring new and critical perspectives to the study of reserve forces and civil-military relations, this introduction and the five articles that follow draw on two organizing conceptual models: The…
Reproducing the military and heteropatriarchal normal: Army Reserve service as serious leisure
The notions that military violence engenders security and that military service is a selfless and necessary act are orthodoxies in political, military and scholarly debate. The UK Army Reserve’s recent expansion prompts reconsideration of this orthodoxy, particularly in relation to the suggestion that reservists serve selflessly. Drawing on fieldwork with British Army reservists and their spouses/partners, we examine how this orthodoxy allows res…
Future Reserves 2020, the British Army and the politics of military innovation during the Cameron era
Since 2001 there has been an increase in the use of reserve forces in conflicts sparking a number of organizational transformations when it comes to reserves. In Britain, the Future Reserves 2020 (FR2020) transformation was a cornerstone of recent defence policy. Yet, the scholarly work on military innovations has ignored reserve forces. This article examines why and how the recent attempt to transform the British Army Reserve was undertaken, and…
War is where the hearth is: Gendered labor and the everyday reproduction of the geopolitical in the army reserves
The feminized imaginary of “home and hearth” has long been central to the notion of soldiering as masculinist protection. Soldiering and war are not only materialized by gendered imaginaries of home and hearth though, but through everyday labors enacted within the home. Focusing on in-depth qualitative research with women partners and spouses of British Army reservists, we examine how women’s everyday domestic and emotional labor enables reservis…
Coping with Knowledge: Organizational Learning in the British Army
This article – based on data that employs interviews conducted with British Army personnel – adopts a social theory of learning in order to examine how both formal and informal learning systems have affected organizational learning within the Army in relation to the counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan. It argues that while the Army has adopted new, or reformed existing, formal learning systems, these have not generated a reconceptualization…
Getting Coin’ at the Tactical Level in Afghanistan: Reassessing Counter-Insurgency Adaptation in the British Army
This article reassesses the extent to which the British Army has been able to adapt to the counter-insurgency campaign in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. While adopting Farrell's definition of bottom-up military adaptation, this article contends that the task force/brigade level of analysis adopted by Farrell and Farrell and Gordon has led them to overstate the degree to which innovation arising from processes of bottom-up adaptation has actually …
Israel and Hizbollah: An Asymmetric Conflict in Historical and Comparitive Perspective
1. Introduction Clive Jones 2. From Benign to Malign: Israeli-Lebanese Relations, 1948-1978 Laurie Eisenberg 3. From the Litani to Beirut: Israel's Invasions of Lebanon, 1978-1985: Causes and Consequences Asher Kaufman 4. The Emergence of Hizb'allah and the Beginnings of Resistance, 1982-1985 Hussein Sirriyeh 5. Hizbollah: From Terror to Resistance: Towards a National Defense Strategy Daniel Sobelman 6. Israeli Counter-Insurgency Strategy and the…
Variation on a Theme: Israel's Operation Cast Lead and the Gaza Strip Missile Conundrum
Israel's assault on Gaza in early 2009, Operation Cast Lead, achieved significant tactical successes and managed to redeem the Israel Defence Forces’ poor performance during the 2006 Lebanon War. Sergio Catignani examines Israel's military and public information campaign and why Cast Lead failed to accomplish the government's two main goals of stopping rocket attacks on Israel and the influx of weapons for resupplying Hamas.
Israeli Counter-Insurgency and the Intifadas: Dilemmas of a Conventional Army
This volume analyzes the conduct of the Israel Defence Forces’ (IDF) counter-insurgency operations during the two major Palestinian uprisings (1987-1993 and 2000-2005) in the Territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It employs primary and secondary resources to produce a comprehensive analysis on whether or not the IDF has been able to adapt its conventional conduct of warfare to the realities of the Israeli-Palestinian low-intensity conflict…
The Strategic Impasse in Low-Intensity Conflicts: The Gap Between Israeli Counter-Insurgency Strategy and Tactics During the Al-Aqsa Intifada
Over the past 15 years Israel has been involved in a bitter counter-insurgency campaign against the Palestinians. Palestinian insurgency, particularly during the current Al-Aqsa Intifada, has posed serious challenges to the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). Whilst being able to adapt successfully its tactics to Palestinian terror and urban guerrilla warfare in order to reduce the level of Palestinian violence, the IDF has not been able to achieve a ba…
The Security Imperative in Counterterror Operations: The Israeli Fight Against Suicidal Terror
Israel has had a long tradition of fighting international and Palestinian terror. This article looks at how Israel counterterrorism strategy and tactics have developed since the establishment of the State in 1948. By initially providing a working definition of terrorism, the article then goes to show how Israel has sought to defend itself from different Palestinian terror tactics. This article shows how Israeli security forces have struggled safe…
Motivating Soldiers: The Example of the Israeli Defense Forces
War is where the hearth is: Gendered labor and the everyday reproduction of the geopolitical in the army reserves
The feminized imaginary of “home and hearth” has long been central to the notion of soldiering as masculinist protection. Soldiering and war are not only materialized by gendered imaginaries of home and hearth though, but through everyday labors enacted within the home. Focusing on in-depth qualitative research with women partners and spouses of British Army reservists, we examine how women’s everyday domestic and emotional labor enables reservis…
Getting Coin’ at the Tactical Level in Afghanistan: Reassessing Counter-Insurgency Adaptation in the British Army
This article reassesses the extent to which the British Army has been able to adapt to the counter-insurgency campaign in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. While adopting Farrell's definition of bottom-up military adaptation, this article contends that the task force/brigade level of analysis adopted by Farrell and Farrell and Gordon has led them to overstate the degree to which innovation arising from processes of bottom-up adaptation has actually …
Coping with Knowledge: Organizational Learning in the British Army
This article – based on data that employs interviews conducted with British Army personnel – adopts a social theory of learning in order to examine how both formal and informal learning systems have affected organizational learning within the Army in relation to the counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan. It argues that while the Army has adopted new, or reformed existing, formal learning systems, these have not generated a reconceptualization…
The gendered politics of researching military policy in the age of the ‘knowledge economy’
This article explores our experiences of conducting feminist interpretive research on the British Army Reserves. The project, which examined the everyday work-Army-life balance challenges that reservists face, and the roles of their partners/spouses in enabling them to fulfil their military commitments, is an example of a potential contribution to the so-called ‘knowledge economy’, where publicly funded research has come to be seen as ‘functional…
Reproducing the military and heteropatriarchal normal: Army Reserve service as serious leisure
The notions that military violence engenders security and that military service is a selfless and necessary act are orthodoxies in political, military and scholarly debate. The UK Army Reserve’s recent expansion prompts reconsideration of this orthodoxy, particularly in relation to the suggestion that reservists serve selflessly. Drawing on fieldwork with British Army reservists and their spouses/partners, we examine how this orthodoxy allows res…
Future Reserves 2020, the British Army and the politics of military innovation during the Cameron era
Since 2001 there has been an increase in the use of reserve forces in conflicts sparking a number of organizational transformations when it comes to reserves. In Britain, the Future Reserves 2020 (FR2020) transformation was a cornerstone of recent defence policy. Yet, the scholarly work on military innovations has ignored reserve forces. This article examines why and how the recent attempt to transform the British Army Reserve was undertaken, and…
The Strategic Impasse in Low-Intensity Conflicts: The Gap Between Israeli Counter-Insurgency Strategy and Tactics During the Al-Aqsa Intifada
Over the past 15 years Israel has been involved in a bitter counter-insurgency campaign against the Palestinians. Palestinian insurgency, particularly during the current Al-Aqsa Intifada, has posed serious challenges to the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). Whilst being able to adapt successfully its tactics to Palestinian terror and urban guerrilla warfare in order to reduce the level of Palestinian violence, the IDF has not been able to achieve a ba…
Introduction to the Armed Forces & Society Forum on Military Reserves in the 'New Wars
This Armed Forces & Society forum is dedicated to exploring recent trends in the characteristics of military reserves and of the changing character of reserve forces within the armed forces within the military, the civilian sphere, and in between them. To bring new and critical perspectives to the study of reserve forces and civil-military relations, this introduction and the five articles that follow draw on two organizing conceptual models: The…
The Security Imperative in Counterterror Operations: The Israeli Fight Against Suicidal Terror
Israel has had a long tradition of fighting international and Palestinian terror. This article looks at how Israel counterterrorism strategy and tactics have developed since the establishment of the State in 1948. By initially providing a working definition of terrorism, the article then goes to show how Israel has sought to defend itself from different Palestinian terror tactics. This article shows how Israeli security forces have struggled safe…
Motivating Soldiers: The Example of the Israeli Defense Forces
The Strategic Impasse in Low-Intensity Conflicts: The Gap Between Israeli Counter-Insurgency Strategy and Tactics During the Al-Aqsa Intifada
Over the past 15 years Israel has been involved in a bitter counter-insurgency campaign against the Palestinians. Palestinian insurgency, particularly during the current Al-Aqsa Intifada, has posed serious challenges to the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). Whilst being able to adapt successfully its tactics to Palestinian terror and urban guerrilla warfare in order to reduce the level of Palestinian violence, the IDF has not been able to achieve a ba…
The Security Imperative in Counterterror Operations: The Israeli Fight Against Suicidal Terror
Israel has had a long tradition of fighting international and Palestinian terror. This article looks at how Israel counterterrorism strategy and tactics have developed since the establishment of the State in 1948. By initially providing a working definition of terrorism, the article then goes to show how Israel has sought to defend itself from different Palestinian terror tactics. This article shows how Israeli security forces have struggled safe…
Israeli Counter-Insurgency and the Intifadas: Dilemmas of a Conventional Army
This volume analyzes the conduct of the Israel Defence Forces’ (IDF) counter-insurgency operations during the two major Palestinian uprisings (1987-1993 and 2000-2005) in the Territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It employs primary and secondary resources to produce a comprehensive analysis on whether or not the IDF has been able to adapt its conventional conduct of warfare to the realities of the Israeli-Palestinian low-intensity conflict…
Israel and Hizbollah: An Asymmetric Conflict in Historical and Comparitive Perspective
1. Introduction Clive Jones 2. From Benign to Malign: Israeli-Lebanese Relations, 1948-1978 Laurie Eisenberg 3. From the Litani to Beirut: Israel's Invasions of Lebanon, 1978-1985: Causes and Consequences Asher Kaufman 4. The Emergence of Hizb'allah and the Beginnings of Resistance, 1982-1985 Hussein Sirriyeh 5. Hizbollah: From Terror to Resistance: Towards a National Defense Strategy Daniel Sobelman 6. Israeli Counter-Insurgency Strategy and the…
Variation on a Theme: Israel's Operation Cast Lead and the Gaza Strip Missile Conundrum
Israel's assault on Gaza in early 2009, Operation Cast Lead, achieved significant tactical successes and managed to redeem the Israel Defence Forces’ poor performance during the 2006 Lebanon War. Sergio Catignani examines Israel's military and public information campaign and why Cast Lead failed to accomplish the government's two main goals of stopping rocket attacks on Israel and the influx of weapons for resupplying Hamas.
Getting Coin’ at the Tactical Level in Afghanistan: Reassessing Counter-Insurgency Adaptation in the British Army
This article reassesses the extent to which the British Army has been able to adapt to the counter-insurgency campaign in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. While adopting Farrell's definition of bottom-up military adaptation, this article contends that the task force/brigade level of analysis adopted by Farrell and Farrell and Gordon has led them to overstate the degree to which innovation arising from processes of bottom-up adaptation has actually …
Coping with Knowledge: Organizational Learning in the British Army
This article – based on data that employs interviews conducted with British Army personnel – adopts a social theory of learning in order to examine how both formal and informal learning systems have affected organizational learning within the Army in relation to the counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan. It argues that while the Army has adopted new, or reformed existing, formal learning systems, these have not generated a reconceptualization…
War is where the hearth is: Gendered labor and the everyday reproduction of the geopolitical in the army reserves
The feminized imaginary of “home and hearth” has long been central to the notion of soldiering as masculinist protection. Soldiering and war are not only materialized by gendered imaginaries of home and hearth though, but through everyday labors enacted within the home. Focusing on in-depth qualitative research with women partners and spouses of British Army reservists, we examine how women’s everyday domestic and emotional labor enables reservis…
Future Reserves 2020, the British Army and the politics of military innovation during the Cameron era
Since 2001 there has been an increase in the use of reserve forces in conflicts sparking a number of organizational transformations when it comes to reserves. In Britain, the Future Reserves 2020 (FR2020) transformation was a cornerstone of recent defence policy. Yet, the scholarly work on military innovations has ignored reserve forces. This article examines why and how the recent attempt to transform the British Army Reserve was undertaken, and…
Reproducing the military and heteropatriarchal normal: Army Reserve service as serious leisure
The notions that military violence engenders security and that military service is a selfless and necessary act are orthodoxies in political, military and scholarly debate. The UK Army Reserve’s recent expansion prompts reconsideration of this orthodoxy, particularly in relation to the suggestion that reservists serve selflessly. Drawing on fieldwork with British Army reservists and their spouses/partners, we examine how this orthodoxy allows res…
The gendered politics of researching military policy in the age of the ‘knowledge economy’
This article explores our experiences of conducting feminist interpretive research on the British Army Reserves. The project, which examined the everyday work-Army-life balance challenges that reservists face, and the roles of their partners/spouses in enabling them to fulfil their military commitments, is an example of a potential contribution to the so-called ‘knowledge economy’, where publicly funded research has come to be seen as ‘functional…
Introduction to the Armed Forces & Society Forum on Military Reserves in the 'New Wars
This Armed Forces & Society forum is dedicated to exploring recent trends in the characteristics of military reserves and of the changing character of reserve forces within the armed forces within the military, the civilian sphere, and in between them. To bring new and critical perspectives to the study of reserve forces and civil-military relations, this introduction and the five articles that follow draw on two organizing conceptual models: The…
Necropolitical policing and the limits of reform in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas
This article examines the militarized policing of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas through the concept of necropolitics, arguing that state security interventions operate less as protective mechanisms than as instruments of racialized violence and sovereign control. It shows how Rio’s Military Police govern favelas not through the formal rule of law but through occupation, surveillance, and discretionary violence and impunity, producing zones of exceptio…
Political science (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (6 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (5 works) · Insurgency (4 works) · Military History and Strategy (4 works)