ISBN:
9780226429953
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0226429938
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0226429946
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9780226429939
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9780226429946
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (406 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.2/70973
Keywords:
War and society
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Political anthropology
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Counterinsurgency
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Counterinsurgency ; United States
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Political anthropology ; United States
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United States ; Foreign relations
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United States ; Military policy
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War and society ; United States
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Electronic books
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United States Foreign relations
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United States Military policy
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Culture, Counterinsurgency, Conscience -- SECTION 1 - Categories of Conflict and Coercion: The Blue in Green and the Other -- 1. Bluing Green in the Maldives: Countering Citizen Insurgency by "Civil"-izing National Security -- 2. Phantom Power: Notes on Provisionality in Haiti -- 3. The Categorization of People as Targets of Violence: A Perspective on the Colombian Armed Conflict -- 4. Seeing Red: Mao Fetishism, Pax Americana, and the Moral Economy of War -- SECTION 2 - Ethnographic Experiences of American Power in the Age of the War on Terror -- 5. Paranoid Styles of Nationalism after the Cold War: Notes from an Invasion of the Amazon -- 6. Hungry Wolves, Inclement Storms: Commodified Fantasies of American Imperial Power in Contemporary Turkey -- 7. Rwandan Rebels and U.S. Federal Prosecutors: American Power, Violence, and the Pursuit of Justice in the Age of the War on Terror -- 8. Weapons, Passports, and News: Palestinian Perceptions of U.S. Power as a Mediator of War -- 9. The Cold War Present: The Logic of Defense Time -- SECTION 3 - Counterinsurgency, Past and Present: Precedents to the Manual -- 10. The Uses of Anthropology in the Insurgent Age -- 11. Small Wars and Counterinsurgency -- 12. Repetition Compulsion? Counterinsurgency Bravado in Iraq and Vietnam -- 13. Counterinsurgency, The Spook, and Blowback -- SECTION 4 - The U.S. Military and U.S. Anthropology -- 14. An Anthropologist among the Soldiers: Notes from the Field -- 15. Indirect Rule and Embedded Anthropology: Practical, Theoretical, and Ethical Concerns -- 16. Soft Power, Hard Power, and the Anthropological "Leveraging" of Cultural "Assets": Distilling the Politics and Ethics o fAnthropological Counterinsurgency.
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS; Introduction: Culture, Counterinsurgency, Conscience; SECTION 1 - Categories of Conflict and Coercion: The Blue in Green and the Other; SECTION 2 - Ethnographic Experiences of American Power in the Age of the War on Terror; SECTION 3 - Counterinsurgency, Past and Present: Precedents to the Manual; SECTION 4 - The U.S. Military and U.S. Anthropology; SECTION 5 - Constructions and Destructions of Conscience; Reference List; List of Contributors; Index
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