The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual - Softcover

The Network Of Concerned Anthropologists

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0979405750 ISBN 13: 9780979405754

Publisher: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2009

Synopsis

At a moment when the U.S. military decided it needed cultural expertise as much as smart bombs to prevail in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon’s Counterinsurgency Field Manual offered a blueprint for mobilizing anthropologists for war. The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual critiques that strategy and offers a blueprint for resistance. Written by the founders of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists, the Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual explores the ethical and intellectual conflicts of the Pentagon’s Human Terrain System; argues that there are flaws in the Counterinsurgency Field Manual (ranging from plagiarism to a misunderstanding of anthropology); probes the increasing militarization of academic knowledge since World War II; identifies the next frontiers for the Pentagon’s culture warriors; and suggests strategies for resisting the deformation and exploitation of anthropological knowledge by the military. This is compulsory reading for anyone concerned that the human sciences are losing their way in an age of empire.

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The Network of Concerned Anthropologists is a group of scholars seeking to promote an ethical anthropology. They believe that anthropologists should not engage in research and other activities that contribute to counterinsurgency operations in Iraq or in related theaters in the war on terror.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prickly Paradigm Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0979405750
• ISBN 13: 9780979405754
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 140