Anthropology and global counterinsurgency / edited by John D. Kelly ...[et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kelly, John D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political anthropology--United States.

Political anthropology.

War and society--United States.

War and society.

Counterinsurgency--United States.

Counterinsurgency.

United States--Foreign relations.

United States.

United States--Military policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (406 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

Introduction: Culture, Counterinsurgency, Conscience

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

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

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

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 of Anthropological Counterinsurgency

17. Yes, Both, Absolutely: A Personal and Professional Commentary on Anthropological Engagement with Military and Intelligence Organizations

18. The Cultural Turn in the War on Terror

19. Cultural Sensitivity in a Military Occupation: The U.S. Military in Iraq

20. The "Bad" Kill: A Short Case Study in American Counterinsurgency

21. The Destruction of Conscience and the Winter Soldier

22. No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy: History, Memory, and the Conscience of a Marine

Reference List

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612538087

9781282538085

128253808X

9780226429953

0226429954

OCLC:

630542256