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War, Technology, Anthropology
Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis, Band 13 1. Aufl.
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16,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Berghahn Books |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 01.12.2011 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9780857455888 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 158 |
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<p> Technologies of the allied warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan, such as remote-controlled drones and night vision goggles, allow the user to “virtualize” human targets. This coincides with increased civilian casualties and a perpetuation of the very insecurity these technologies are meant to combat. This concise volume of research and reflections from different regions across Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa, observes how anthropology operates as a technology of war. It tackles recent theories of humans in society colluding with imperialist claims, including anthropologists who have become  involved professionally in warfare through their knowledge of “cultures,” renamed as “human terrain systems.” The chapters link varied yet crucial domains of inquiry: from battlefields technologies, military-driven scientific policy, and economic warfare, to martyrdom cosmology shifts, media coverage of “distant” wars, and the virtualizing techniques and “war porn” soundtracks of the gaming industry.</p>
<p> <strong>Introduction: </strong>War Technology Anthropology<br> <em>Koen Stroeken</em></p>
<p> <strong>Part I: Perpetuating War</strong></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 1.</strong> Drones in the Tribal Zone: Virtual War and Losing Hearts and Minds in the Af-Pak War<br> <em>Jeffrey A. Sluka</em></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 2.</strong> The Dead of Night: Chaos and Spectacide of Nocturnal Combat in the Iraq War<br> <em>Antonius C.G.M. Robben</em></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 3. </strong>World in a Bottle: Prognosticating Insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan<br> <em>Roberto J. González</em></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 4.</strong> Anthropology As We Know It – A Casualty of War?<br> <em>R. Brian Ferguson</em></p>
<p> <strong>Part II: Globalizing War</strong></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 5.</strong> Games Without Tears, Wars Without Frontiers<br> <em>Robertson Allen</em></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 6. </strong>Music, Aesthetics, and the Technologies of Online War<br> <em>Matthew Sumera</em></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 7. </strong>Humanitarian Death and the Magic of Global War in Uganda<br> <em>Sverker Finnström</em></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 8.</strong> Resident Violence: Miner <em>mwanga</em> magic as a war technology anthropology<br> <em>Koen Stroeken</em></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 9. </strong>The Magic of Martyrdom and Cultural Imaginaries in Palestine<br> <em>Neil L. Whitehead</em> and <em>Nasser Abufarha</em></p>
<p> <strong>Part I: Perpetuating War</strong></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 1.</strong> Drones in the Tribal Zone: Virtual War and Losing Hearts and Minds in the Af-Pak War<br> <em>Jeffrey A. Sluka</em></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 2.</strong> The Dead of Night: Chaos and Spectacide of Nocturnal Combat in the Iraq War<br> <em>Antonius C.G.M. Robben</em></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 3. </strong>World in a Bottle: Prognosticating Insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan<br> <em>Roberto J. González</em></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 4.</strong> Anthropology As We Know It – A Casualty of War?<br> <em>R. Brian Ferguson</em></p>
<p> <strong>Part II: Globalizing War</strong></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 5.</strong> Games Without Tears, Wars Without Frontiers<br> <em>Robertson Allen</em></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 6. </strong>Music, Aesthetics, and the Technologies of Online War<br> <em>Matthew Sumera</em></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 7. </strong>Humanitarian Death and the Magic of Global War in Uganda<br> <em>Sverker Finnström</em></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 8.</strong> Resident Violence: Miner <em>mwanga</em> magic as a war technology anthropology<br> <em>Koen Stroeken</em></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 9. </strong>The Magic of Martyrdom and Cultural Imaginaries in Palestine<br> <em>Neil L. Whitehead</em> and <em>Nasser Abufarha</em></p>
<p> <strong>Koen Stroeken</strong> is an Associate Professor of Africanist Anthropology at Ghent University. Committed to the value of reflexivity, he published most recently <a href="http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=StroekenMoral"><em>Moral Power: The Magic of Witchcraft</em></a> (Berghahn Books, 2010), which is based on fieldwork in rural Tanzania.</p>
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