The counter-counterinsurgency manual ;, or, notes on demilitarizing American society, Network of Concerned Anthropologists Steering Committee, Catherine Besteman ... [et al.]
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The counter-counterinsurgency manual ;, or, notes on demilitarizing American society, Network of Concerned Anthropologists Steering Committee, Catherine Besteman ... [et al.]
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references
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non fiction
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The counter-counterinsurgency manual ;
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bibliography
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Network of Concerned Anthropologists Steering Committee, Catherine Besteman ... [et al.]
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or, notes on demilitarizing American society
Summary
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
Table Of Contents
Preface / Marshall Sahlins -- Introduction : war, culture, and counterinsurgency / Roberto Gonzalez, Hugh Gusterson, David Price -- Counter-histories of militarism. The military normal / Catherine Lutz ; Militarizing knowledge / Hugh Gusterson -- Countering the counterinsurgency manual. Faking scholarship / David Price ; Radical or reactionary? / Greg Feldman -- Countering counterinsurgency. Embedded / Roberto Gonzalez ; Counter AFRICOM / Catherine Besteman -- Anthropological implications. Anthropology and HUMINT / Andrew Bickford ; About face! / Kanhong Lin -- Alternatives. Proposals for a humanpolitik / David Vine
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Counter-counterinsurgency manualNotes on demilitarizing American society
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