| Description |
vii, 397 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-379) and index. |
| Contents |
Categories of conflict and coercion : the blue in green and the other / Beatrice Jauregui -- Bluing green in the Maldives : countering citizen insurgency by "Civil"-izing National Security / Beatrice Jauregui -- Phantom power : notes on provisionality in Haiti / Greg Beckett -- The categorization of people as targets of violence : a perspective on the Colombian armed conflict / Paola Castano -- Seeing red : Mao fetishism, Pax Americana, and the moral economy of war / John D. Kelly -- Ethnographic experiences of American power in the age of the War on Terror / Jeremy Walton and Sean T. Mitchell -- 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 -- Counterinsurgency, past and present : precedents to the manual / Jeremy Walton and Beatrice Jauregui -- 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 -- The U.S. military and U.S. anthropology / Sean T. Mitchell and John D. Kelly -- An anthropologist among the soldiers : notes from the field / Marcus B. Griffin -- Indirect rule and embedded anthropology : practical, theoretical and ethical concerns / Roberto J. Gonzalez -- 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 -- Constructions and destructions of conscience / John D. Kelly -- 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."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Political anthropology -- United States.
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War and society -- United States.
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Counterinsurgency -- United States.
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United States -- Foreign relations.
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United States -- Military policy.
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| Added Author |
Kelly, John D.
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| ISBN |
9780226429946 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0226429946 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780226429939 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0226429938 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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