Clik here to view.
The Pentagon’s Culture Wars: An Article in NATURE for Oct. 2008
Sharon Weinberger’s article in Nature is behind a pay wall. I will provide some extracts and summaries below. The title of the article is “Military Research: The Pentagon’s Culture Wars” and was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual”: New Book on Anthropology,...
I am very happy to report that the second of three new volumes about the human terrain system to be published this year has just been released for pre-order. It is The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hugh Gusterson: “Empire of Bases”
How the U.S. colonizes the world through the installation of military bases: From the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists: http://thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/hugh-gusterson/empire-of-bases Empire...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Islands of Shame and the World as a U.S. Military Base: A look at some of the...
Dr. David Vine is a professor of anthropology at American University in Washington D.C. whose ethnographic research has focused on the impact of U.S. military bases and in particular the forced...
View ArticleClik here to view.
March 2009 in Review: Academic Freedom, Militarization, Economic Crisis, and...
March was one of this blog’s busiest months, with the second highest number of overall views since the blog started, averaging at 729 per day. Two of the main themes concerned academic freedom,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Audio: Anthropology and Counterinsurgency
An increasing number of audio recordings of conference proceedings and media interviews are being made available that deal specifically with the relationships between anthropology, the military, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
(Re)Imperializing Anthropology and Decolonizing Knowledge Production
I presented the paper below, “(Re)Imperializing Anthropology and Decolonizing Knowledge Production,” at the 8th Annual Critical Race and Anti-colonial Studies Conference of Researchers and Academics of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Afghanistan: The Unwinnable War
More U.S. troops to Afghanistan? Why the war in Afghanistan cannot be won By Hugh Gusterson | 21 September 2009 [reproduced with the permission of the author] A number of commentators have remarked of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
News from the Military-Academic Complex: McFate’s PhD, HTS Contracts, Minerva...
Here is a medley of updates concerning previous posts on this blog: Concerning Montgomery McFate’s doctoral dissertation: Montgomery McFate’s PhD dissertation (when she was Montgomery Cybele Carlough)...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bibliography and Archive: The Military, Intelligence Agencies, and the...
Over 470 reports have been published online concerning the relationships between anthropology, other parts of academia, and the military and intelligence agencies since 2001. The items covered here...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Do professional ethics matter in war? Hugh Gusterson
“The Human Terrain project is fundamentally incompatible with the professional ethics by which we anthropologists live.” From Hugh Gusterson, “Do professional ethics matter in war?” Bulletin of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Information Traffickers of the Imperial State: American Anthropologists and...
From the Homeland Security Act of 2002: “The Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary for Science and Technology, shall designate a university-based center or several university-based centers for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
More European Press Coverage of the Human Terrain System
Ted Callahan, American "anthropologist," in a photograph displayed in Germany's GEO magazine this past May. Continuing from the last item on this topic, the following are more examples of recent...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Militarism’s Tea Party
Adding far more detail to what was discussed in the last post, “Justifying Corporate Welfare for the Military: What the Logic Sounds Like,” the following is Hugh Gusterson‘s article in the Bulletin of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Militanthro: Anthropology and the Study of NATO and the U.S. Military
Two articles to which I want to draw attention discuss the important issues of research methodology for anthropologists studying NATO and the U.S. military. For those who do not have paid access to...
View Article