The counter-counterinsurgency manual : or, notes on demilitarizing American society / Network of Concerned Anthropologists steering committee, Catherine Besteman, Andrew Bickford, Greg Feldman,... [et al.]

Date : 2009

Editeur / Publisher : Chicago, Ill. : Prickly Paradigm Press , cop. 2009

Type : Livre / Book

Langue / Language : anglais / English

ISBN : 978-0-9794057-5-4

ISBN : 0-9794057-5-0

Contre-guérilla -- États-Unis

Anthropologie appliquée -- États-Unis

Classification Dewey : 355.6

Résumé / Abstract : 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