Pinelandia : an anthropology and field poetics of war and empire / Nomi Stone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stone, Nomi, author.

Series:

Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century

Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century ; v.8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Army--Drill and tactics.

United States.

Iraq War, 2003-2011--Moral and ethical aspects.

Iraq War, 2003-2011.

Military training camps--United States--21st century.

Military training camps.

Soldiers--United States--21st century.

Soldiers.

War poetry, American--Writing.

War poetry, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 291 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 2022.

Summary:

Across the pine forests and deserts of America, there are mock Middle Eastern villages, mostly hidden from public view. Containing mosques, restaurants, street signs, graffiti in Arabic, and Iraqi role-players, these villages serve as military training sites for cultural literacy and special operations, both seen as crucial to victory in the Global War on Terror. In her gripping and highly original ethnography, anthropologist Nomi Stone explores US military predeployment training exercises and the lifeworlds of the Iraqi role-players employed within the mock villages, as they act out to mourn, bargain, and die like the wartime adversary or ally. Spanning fieldwork across the United States and Jordan, Pinelandia traces the devastating consequences of a military project that seeks to turn human beings into wartime technologies recruited to translate, mediate, and collaborate. Theorizing and enacting a field poetics, this work enlarges the ethnographic project into new cross-disciplinary worlds. Pinelandia is a political phenomenology of American empire and Iraq in the twenty-first century.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

[Field Poem]

Introduction: The Pins Fall through the Pines

[Field Poem]

1. The Making of Human Technology

2. The Iraq Warscape and the Cultural Turn

3. The Theaters of War

4. Left and Right Limits

5. Affective Maneuvers

6. Becoming Human Technology

Conclusion: The Pins Fall through the Pines

Epilogue: Field Poetry

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Series.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780520975491

0520975499

OCLC:

1342499121