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Title Anthropology and global counterinsurgency / edited by John D. Kelly [and others]
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 397 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary "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 these issues, the essays in Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency consider how anthropologists can, should, and do respond to military overtures, and they articulate anthropological perspectives on global war and power relations." "This book investigates the shifting boundaries between military and civil state violence; perceptions and effects of American power around the globe; the history of counterinsurgency doctrine and practice; and debate over culture, knowledge, and conscience in counterinsurgency. These wide-ranging essays shed new light on the fraught world of Pax Americana and on the ethical and political dilemmas faced by anthropologists and military personnel alike when attempting to understand and intervene in our world."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Political anthropology -- United States
War and society -- United States
Counterinsurgency -- United States
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
SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140058
United States -- Military policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140379
Subject United States
USA
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009029074
ISBN 9780226429953
0226429954
9786612538087
6612538082
128253808X
9781282538085