Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency
- Contents
- Review Quotes
: : John D. Kelly, Beatrice Jauregui, Sean T. Mitchell, and Jeremy Walton
SECTION 1
Categories of Conflict and Coercion: The Blue in Green and the Other
: : Beatrice Jauregui
1 Bluing Green in the Maldives: Countering Citizen Insurgency by "Civil"-izing National Security
: : Beatrice Jauregui
2 Phantom Power: Notes on Provisionality in Haiti
: : Greg Beckett
3 The Categorization of People as Targets of Violence: A Perspective on the Colombian Armed Conflict
: : Paola Castaño
4 Seeing Red: Mao Fetishism, Pax Americana, and the Moral Economy of War
: : John D. Kelly
SECTION 2
Ethnographic Experiences of American Power in the Age of the War on Terror
: : Jeremy Walton and Sean T. Mitchell
5 Paranoid Styles of Nationalism aft er the Cold War: Notes from an Invasion of the Amazon
: : Sean T. Mitchell
6 Hungry Wolves, Inclement Storms: Commodifi ed Fantasies of American Imperial Power in Contemporary Turkey
: : Jeremy Walton
7 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
8 Weapons, Passports, and News: Palestinian Perceptions of U.S. Power as a Mediator of War
: : Amahl Bishara
9 The Cold War Present: The Logic of Defense Time
: : Mihir Pandya
SECTION 3
Counterinsurgency, Past and Present: Precedents to the Manual
: : Jeremy Walton and Beatrice Jauregui
10 The Uses of Anthropology in the Insurgent Age
: : Dustin M. Wax
11 Small Wars and Counterinsurgency
: : James L. Hevia
12 Repetition Compulsion? Counterinsurgency Bravado in Iraq and Vietnam
: : Kurt Jacobsen
13 Counterinsurgency, The Spook, and Blowback
: : Joseph Masco
SECTION 4
The U.S. Military and U.S. Anthropology
: : Sean T. Mitchell and John D. Kelly
14 An Anthropologist among the Soldiers: Notes from the Field
: : Marcus B. Griffin
15 Indirect Rule and Embedded Anthropology: Practical, Theoretical, and Ethical Concerns
: : Roberto J. González
16 Soft Power, Hard Power, and the Anthropological "Leveraging" of Cultural "Assets": Distilling the Politics and Ethics of Anthropological Counterinsurgency
: : David H. Price
17 Yes, Both, Absolutely: A Personal and Professional Commentary on Anthropological Engagement with Military and Intelligence Organizations
: : Kerry Fosher
SECTION 5
Constructions and Destructions of Conscience
: : John D. Kelly
18 The Cultural Turn in the War on Terror
: : Hugh Gusterson
19 Cultural Sensitivity in a Military Occupation: The U.S. Military in Iraq
: : Rochelle Davis, with Dahlia El Zein and Dena Takruri
20 The "Bad" Kill: A Short Case Study in American Counterinsurgency
: : Jeffrey Bennett
21 The Destruction of Conscience and the Winter Soldier
: : Kevin Caffrey
22 No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy: History, Memory, and the Conscience of a Marine
: : Christopher T. Nelson
Reference List
List of Contributors
Index
“This extensive compendium of critical ideas, information, and narrative accounts makes for an absorbing reading experience. Beyond its cogency for present debates, it might well serve as a historical marker for future researchers, likely to become as important as an expression of a certain epoch of anthropological relevance to events as Reinventing Anthropology has been in the context of the 1960s.”
“This collection deeply and creatively challenges many forms of received wisdom about the nature of security and of U.S. power in the age of counterinsurgency and counterterrorism. Its diverse points of view, its productive comparisons, and its lucid ethnographic and historical examples are a feast for anyone concerned with where the history of this turbulent, portentous moment is headed.”
“When U.S. counterinsurgency strategy took a ‘cultural turn,’ it incited another form of resistance in addition to those it was already fighting, namely from anthropologists who objected to the enlistment of their discipline in the global military projects of Pax Americana. For the great majority of anthropologists, the integrity of other peoples’ existence is at once an intellectual premise of their discipline and its moral imperative. They will not put the peoples they live and work with at risk of bodily harm, foreign domination, or cultural destruction. Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency is a rich and profound exploration of the contradiction between a human science of culture and its militarization.”
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