Anthropology and global counterinsurgency /

"Global events of the early twenty-first century have placed new stress on the relationship among anthropology, governance, and war. Facing prolonged insurgency, segments of the U.S. military have taken a new interest in anthropology, prompting intense ethical and scholarly debate. Inspired by...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Temas:
Political anthropology > United States.
War and society > United States.
Counterinsurgency > United States.
Anthropologie politique > États-Unis.
Guerre et société > États-Unis.
Contre-rébellion > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Counterinsurgency
Diplomatic relations
Military policy
Political anthropology
War and society
Aufstand
Ethnologe
Militärpolitik
Niederschlagung > Politik
United States > Foreign relations.
United States > Military policy.
États-Unis > Relations extérieures.
United States
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Bluing green in the Maldives: countering citizen insurgency by "Civil"-izing National Security / Beatrice Jauregui
  • Phantom power: notes on provesionality in Haiti / Greg Beckett
  • The categorization of people as targets of violence: a perspective on the Colombian armed conflict / Paola Castan̄o
  • Seeing red: Mao fetishism, Pax Americana, and the moral economy of war / John D. Kelly
  • Paranoid styles of nationalism after the Cold War: notes from and invasion of the Amazon / Sean T. Mitchell
  • Hungry wolves, inclement storms: commodified fantasies of American imperial power in contemporary Turkey / Jeremy Walton
  • Rwandan rebels and U.S. Federal prosecutors: American power, violence, and the pursuit of justice in the age of the war on terror / Elizabeth Garland
  • Weapons, passports, and news: Palestinian perceptions of U.S. power as a mediator of war / Amahl Bishara
  • The Cold War present: the logic of defense time / Mihir Pandya
  • The uses of anthropology in the insurgent age / Dustin M. Wax
  • Small wars and counterinsurgency / James L. Hevia
  • Repetition compulsion? Counterinsurgency bravado in Iraq and Vietnam / Kurt Jacobsen
  • Counterinsurgency, The Spook, and Blowback / Joseph Masco
  • An anthropologist among the soldiers: notes from the field / Marcus B. Griffin
  • Indirect rule and embedded anthropology: practical, theoretical and ethical concerns / Robert J. González
  • Soft power, hard power, and the anthropological 'leveraging" of cultural "assets": Distilling the politics and ethics of anthropological counterinsurgency / David H. Price
  • Yes, both, absolutely: a personal and professional commentary on anthropological engagement with military and intelligence organizations / Kerry Fosher
  • The cultural turn in the war on terror / Hugh Gusterson
  • Cultural sensitivity in a military occupation: the U.S. military in Iraq / Rochelle Davis, with Dahlia El Zein and Dena Takruri
  • The "bad" kill: a short case study in American counterinsurgency / Jeffrey Bennett
  • The destruction of conscience and the winter soldier / Kevin Caffrey
  • No better friend, no worse enemy: history, memory, and the conscience of a marine / Christopher T. Nelson.

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