Anthropology and global counterinsurgency

Anthropology and global counterinsurgency - Chicago Chicago University Press 2010 - vii,397p. ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-379) and index.

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 Castan̄o -- 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. González -- 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.

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Political anthropology--United States.
War and society--United States.
Counterinsurgency--United States.


United States--Foreign relations.
United States--Military policy.

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