The Counter-counterinsurgency Manual

Informationen zum Autor The Network of Concerned Anthropologists is a group of scholars seeking to promote an ethical anthropology. They believe that anthropologists should not engage in research and other activities that contribute to counterinsurgency operations in Iraq or in related theaters in the war on terror. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Explores the ethical and intellectual conflicts of the Pentagon's Human Terrain System. This title probes the militarization of academic knowledge since World War II. It identifies the frontiers for the Pentagon's culture warriors! and suggests strategies for resisting the deformation and exploitation of anthropological knowledge by the military.

Product details

• Authors: NCA, Network of Concerned Anthropologists, The Network of Concerned Anthropologists
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.04.2009, delayed
• EAN: 9780979405754
• ISBN: 978-0-9794057-5-4
• No. of pages: 140
• Series: Paradigm; Paradigm
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology