Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency

Recent global events have placed new stress on the relationship among anthropology, governance, and war as, facing prolonged insurgency, segments of the U.S. military have taken a new interest in the discipline. 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 debates over culture, knowledge, and conscience in counterinsurgency. These wide-ranging essays shed new light on the fraught world of Pax American and on the ethical and political dilemmas faced by anthropologists and military personnel alike when attempting to understanding and intervention in our world. Book jacket.

John D. Kelly is professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago. Beatrice Jauregui is visiting fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of India. Sean T. Mitchell is visiting assistant professor of anthropology at Vanderbilt University. Jeremy Walton is assistant professor of religion at New York University.

Introduction: Culture, Counterinsurgency, Conscience	p. 1
Categories of Conflict and Coercion: The Blue in Green and the Other	p. 17
Bluing Green in the Maldives: Countering Citizen Insurgency by "Civil"-izing National Security	p. 23
Phantom Power: Notes on Provisionality in Haiti	p. 39
The Categorization of People as Targets of Violence: A Perspective on the Colombian Armed Conflict	p. 53
Seeing Red: Mao Fetishism, Pax Americana, and the Moral Economy of War	p. 67
Ethnographic Experiences of American Power in the Age of the War on Terror	p. 85
Paranoid Styles of Nationalism after the Cold War: Notes from an Invasion of the Amazon	p. 89
Hungry Wolves, Inclement Storms: Commodified Fantasies of American Imperial Power in Contemporary Turkey	p. 105
Rwandan Rebels and U.S. Federal Prosecutors: American Power, Violence, and the Pursuit of Justice in the Age of the War on Terror	p. 117
Weapons, Passports, and News: Palestinian Perceptions of U.S. Power as a Mediator of War	p. 125
The Cold War Present: The Logic of Defense Time	p. 137
Counterinsurgency, Past and Present: Precedents to the Manual	p. 149
The Uses of Anthropology in the Insurgent Age	p. 153
Small Wars and Counterinsurgency	p. 169
Repetition Compulsion? Counterinsurgency Bravado in Iraq and Vietnam	p. 179
Counterinsurgency, The Spook, and Blowback	p. 193
The U.S. Military and U.S. Anthropology	p. 209
An Anthropologist among the Soldiers: Notes from the Field	p. 215
Indirect Rule and Embedded Anthropology: Practical, Theoretical, and Ethical Concerns	p. 231
Soft Power, Hard Power, and the Anthropological "Leveraging" of Cultural "Assets": Distilling the Politics and Ethics of Anthropological Counterinsurgency	p. 245
Yes, Both, Absolutely: A Personal and Professional Commentary on Anthropological Engagement with Military and Intelligence Organizations	p. 261
Constructions and Destructions of Conscience	p. 273
The Cultural Turn in the War on Terror	p. 279
Cultural Sensitivity in a Military Occupation: The U.S. Military in Iraq	p. 297
The "Bad" Kill: A Short Case Study in American Counterinsurgency	p. 311
The Destruction of Conscience and the Winter Soldier	p. 327
No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy: History, Memory, and the Conscience of a Marine	p. 343
Reference List	p. 355
List of Contributors	p. 381
Index	p. 385
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