Anthropology and global counterinsurgency

"Global events of the early twenty-first century have placed new stress on the relationship among anthropology, governance, and war. Facing prolonged insurgency, segments of the U.S. military have taken a new interest in anthropology, prompting intense ethical and scholarly debate. Inspired by these issues, the essays in Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency consider how anthropologists can, should, and do respond to military overtures, and they articulate anthropological perspectives on global war and power relations." "This book investigates the shifting boundaries between military and civil state violence; perceptions and effects of American power around the globe; the history of counterinsurgency doctrine and practice; and debate over culture, knowledge, and conscience in counterinsurgency. These wide-ranging essays shed new light on the fraught world of Pax Americana and on the ethical and political dilemmas faced by anthropologists and military personnel alike when attempting to understand and intervene in our world."--Jacket

Bluing green in the Maldives: countering citizen insurgency by "Civil"-izing National Security / Beatrice Jauregui -- Phantom power: notes on provesionality 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 -- 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 -- 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 Blowb…