An edition of The counter-counterinsurgency manual (2009)

The counter-counterinsurgency manual

or, notes on demilitarizing American society

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The counter-counterinsurgency manual
Catherine Lowe Besteman
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An edition of The counter-counterinsurgency manual (2009)

The counter-counterinsurgency manual

or, notes on demilitarizing American society

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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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Prickly Paradigm Press, Distributed by the University of Chicago
Language
English
Pages
190

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Subjects
Counterinsurgency, United States, Moral and ethical aspects, Evaluation, Military policy, Anthropology, Militarism, United States. Army. Human Terrain System, Anthropological ethics, Military intelligence, Conscientious objectors, Applied anthropology, Iraq War, 2003-, History, Iraq War, 2003-2011, Insurgency, Philosophy, Social sciences, Political aspects, National security, Political anthropology
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United States, Iraq
Times
21st century

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Table of Contents

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.

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Chicago, IL
Other Titles
Notes on demilitarizing American society

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Dewey Decimal Class
355.6
Library of Congress
U241 .C688 2009, UB251.U6 G66 2009, GN492 .C68 2009, U241 .C68 2009

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vii, 190 p. ;
Number of pages
190

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OL25201054M
ISBN 10
0979405750
ISBN 13
9780979405747
LCCN
2009923954, 2008937607
OCLC/WorldCat
262883591, 262883593

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