The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual
Subtitle: Or, Notes on Demilitarizing American Society
By: Network of Concerned Anthropologists Steering Committee ; Catherine Besteman ... [et al.].
Contributors: Network of Concerned Anthropologists. Steering Committee; United States. Dept. of the Army
Publisher: Prickly Paradigm Press; Distributed by the University of Chicago
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780979405747
Copyright date: 2009
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
Other titles: Notes on demilitarizing American society
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface  -- Marshall Sahlins; title: Introduction : war, culture, and counterinsurgency  -- Roberto González, Hugh Gusterson, David Price; title: The military normal  -- Catherine Lutz; title: Militarizing knowledge  -- Hugh Gusterson; title: Faking scholarship  -- David Price; title: Radical or reactionary?  -- Greg Feldman; title: Embedded  -- Roberto González; title: Counter AFRICOM  -- Catherine Besteman; title: Anthropology and HUMINT  -- Andrew Bickford; title: About face!  -- Kanhong Lin; title: Proposals for a humanpolitik -- David Vine.