ISBN:
9780979405754
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9780979405747
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0979405750
Language:
English
Pages:
VII, 190 S.
,
18 cm
Series Statement:
Paradigm 35
Series Statement:
Paradigm
DDC:
355.6
Keywords:
United States Moral and ethical aspects
;
Anthropological ethics
;
Military intelligence Evaluation
;
Counterinsurgency
;
Applied anthropology Evaluation
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Iraq War, 2003-2011 Conscientious objectors
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Anthropology History 21st century
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Militarism
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Counterinsurgency Moral and ethical aspects
;
United States Military policy
;
Moral and ethical aspects
;
USA
;
Militär
;
Sicherheitspolitik
;
Antimilitarismus
Abstract:
Critiques the Pentagon's Counterinsurgency Field Manual, which offered a blueprint for mobilizing the cultural expertise of anthropologists for the war in Iraq. Explores the ethical and intellectual conflicts of the Pentagon's Human Terrain System, and probes the increasing militarization of academic knowledge
Note:
Preface
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Introduction : war, culture, and counterinsurgency
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The military normal
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Militarizing knowledge
,
Faking scholarship
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Radical or reactionary?
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Embedded
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Counter AFRICOM
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Anthropology and HUMINT
,
About face!
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Proposals for a humanpolitik
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