terror war anthropology
The below pieces critically examine the roles played by anthropology
in President Bush's domestic and international military campaigns.
As the "war on terror" reveals increasing the military and
intelligence agency's ignorance about regions and cultures of world
where the Bush administration desires to impose military
hegemony, there are renewed desires to use anthropological knowledge
for
militarized ends. While the current calls to apply
anthropology for a newly conceptualized terror war appear to
underestimate the extent of past applications and misapplications of
anthropology to the needs of warfare, anthropology has regularly been
deployed throughout the wars of the Twentieth Century--deployments
that continue to raise serious ethical issues for anthropology.
2001 “War Without End: Terror and Indigenous People” CounterPunch Nov. 3 2001:1-3.
2001 “Academia Under Attack: Sketches For A New Blacklist” CounterPunch Nov. 21, 2001.
2002 “Present Dangers, Past Wars and Past Anthropologies” Anthropology Today 18(1):3-5.
2002 “Reply to Noam Chomsky and Jeffrey Sluka” Anthropology Today 18(2):23.
2002 Here is a piece discussing the likelihood that an American military invasion of Iraq could lead to political instability in Egypt. I wrote this after a trip to Egypt in September 2002, and had much of the second of half of it published in the print version of CounterPunch as: "Cops As Robbers" CounterPunch October 1-15, 2002:4. "Unleashing Blood Meridian: Bush’s War Threatens Egyptian Stability"
2002 “Interlopers and Invited Guests: On Anthropology’s Witting and Unwitting Links to Intelligence Agencies" Anthropology Today 18(6):16-21.
2003 "Prostrate Before The Patriot Act: Librarians As FBI Extension Agents" CounterPunch March 5, 2003.
2004 “’Like Slaves’: Anthropological Notes on Occupation” CounterPunch January 6, 2004.
2005 "The CIA's University Spies" CounterPunch Volume 12, No. 1. January 1-15, pp 1-6. (reprinted on CounterPunch online, March 12-13, 2005) [Translated into Spanish by Cecilia Paterno, as: “Los espías de la CIA en los campus universitarios”]
2005 "From PRISP to ICSP: Skullduggery Among the Acronyms" CounterPunch Vol. 12, No. 5. March 1-15. pp 3-4. (reprinted on CounterPunch online May 22-23, 2005)
2005 [co-authored with Hugh Gusterson] “Spies in our Midst” Anthropology News 46(6):39-40.
2005 “America the Ambivalent: Quietly Selling Anthropology to the CIA” Anthropology Today 21(5):1-2.
2006 "American Anthropologists Stand Up Against Torture and Occupation of Iraq." CounterPunch November 20, 2006.
2007 "Anthropology and the Wages of Secrecy." Anthropology News 48(3):6-7.
2007 "The Long Lost War: This Occupation Shall Remain Nameless" CounterPunch April 25, 2007.
2007 "Buying a Piece of Anthropology, Part One: Human Ecology and Unwitting Anthropological Research for the CIA." Anthropology Today (in press).
2007 "Buying a Piece of Anthropology, Part Two: Our Tortured Past." Anthropology Today (in press).
2007 [co-authored with Hugh Gusterson] "Reconsidering Why Dr. Johnny Won't Fight." Small Wars (in press).
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