Weaponizing Anthropology
Social Science in Service of the Militarized State
Published on 30. October 2011
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Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-84935-063-1 (ISBN)
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English
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Edinburgh
United Kingdom
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Height: 192 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
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271 gr
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978-1-84935-063-1 (9781849350631)
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David H. Price: David Price is the author of Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI's Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists and Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War (both published by Duke University Press). He is a frequent contributor to CounterPunch. He teaches at St. Martin's College in Lacey, Washington.
Content
Introduction.
PT I: Anthropology, History, War, Ethics & Current Manifestations
1. War is a Force that Gives Anthropology Ethics
2. "The CIA's University Spies: PRISP, ICSP, NSEP & the Big Payback.
3. Silent Coup: How the CIA Welcomed Itself Back on Campus Without Public Resistance.
4. Non-attribution
PT II: Manuals
5. Commandeering Scholarship: The New Counterinsurgency Manual, Anthropology, and Academic Pillaging
6. "The Military 'Leveraging' of Cultural Knowledge: The Newly Available 2004 Stryker Report Evaluating Iraqi Failures."
7. Social Science in Harness: Inside the Minerva Consortium.
8. "The Leaky Ship of Human Terrain Systems: On Reading the Leaked Human Terrain Systems Handbook."
9. On Rendering Cultural Complexities as Stereotype: Anthropological Reflections on the Special Forces Advisor Guide
PT III: Counterinsurgency, Human Terrain Systems & Theory
10. Adapted and updated from: Counterinsurgency's Free Ride.
11. Problems with Counterinsurgent Anthropological Theory: or, by the Time a Military Relies on Counterinsurgency for foreign victory it has already Lost.
12. Human Terrain Whistleblower: John Allison Inside the Belly of the HTS Beastie
13. Working for Robots: Human Terrain, Anthropologists and the War in Afghanistan
14. Afterward.
Bibiography
PT I: Anthropology, History, War, Ethics & Current Manifestations
1. War is a Force that Gives Anthropology Ethics
2. "The CIA's University Spies: PRISP, ICSP, NSEP & the Big Payback.
3. Silent Coup: How the CIA Welcomed Itself Back on Campus Without Public Resistance.
4. Non-attribution
PT II: Manuals
5. Commandeering Scholarship: The New Counterinsurgency Manual, Anthropology, and Academic Pillaging
6. "The Military 'Leveraging' of Cultural Knowledge: The Newly Available 2004 Stryker Report Evaluating Iraqi Failures."
7. Social Science in Harness: Inside the Minerva Consortium.
8. "The Leaky Ship of Human Terrain Systems: On Reading the Leaked Human Terrain Systems Handbook."
9. On Rendering Cultural Complexities as Stereotype: Anthropological Reflections on the Special Forces Advisor Guide
PT III: Counterinsurgency, Human Terrain Systems & Theory
10. Adapted and updated from: Counterinsurgency's Free Ride.
11. Problems with Counterinsurgent Anthropological Theory: or, by the Time a Military Relies on Counterinsurgency for foreign victory it has already Lost.
12. Human Terrain Whistleblower: John Allison Inside the Belly of the HTS Beastie
13. Working for Robots: Human Terrain, Anthropologists and the War in Afghanistan
14. Afterward.
Bibiography