The counter-counterinsurgency manual : or, notes on demilitarizing American society / Network of Concerned Anthropologists Steering Committee ; Catherine Besteman ... [et al.].
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TextPublication details: Chicago, IL : Prickly Paradigm Press, 2009.Description: vii, 190 p. ; 18 cmISBN: - 9780979405747 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0979405750 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Notes on demilitarizing American society [Other title]
- United States. Army. Human Terrain System -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Counterinsurgency -- Iraq
- Anthropological ethics -- United States
- Military intelligence -- United States -- Evaluation
- Applied anthropology -- Iraq -- Evaluation
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States
- Anthropology -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Militarism -- United States
- Counterinsurgency -- Moral and ethical aspects
- United States -- Military policy -- Moral and ethical aspects
- 355.6
- U241Â .B455 2009
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| Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Barcode | |
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| TAMCAS Library TAMCAS General shelves | U241 .B455 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | CAS | A-10455 |
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface / Marshall Sahlins -- Introduction : war, culture, and counterinsurgency / Roberto González, Hugh Gusterson, David Price -- The military normal / Catherine Lutz -- Militarizing knowledge / Hugh Gusterson -- Faking scholarship / David Price -- Radical or reactionary? / Greg Feldman -- Embedded / Roberto González -- Counter AFRICOM / Catherine Besteman -- Anthropology and HUMINT / Andrew Bickford -- About face! / Kanhong Lin -- Proposals for a humanpolitik / David Vine.
Critiques the Pentagon's Counterinsurgency Field Manual, which offered a blueprint for mobilizing the cultural expertise of anthropologists for the war in Iraq. Explores the ethical and intellectual conflicts of the Pentagon's Human Terrain System, and probes the increasing militarization of academic knowledge.
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