War, Technology, Anthropology
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 throug…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-85745-588-8
- EAN: 9780857455888
- Produktnummer: 20450705
- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 158 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 208 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Reihenbandnummer: 13
Über den Autor
Koen Stroeken is an Associate Professor of Africanist Anthropology at Ghent University. Committed to the value of reflexivity, he published most recently Moral Power: The Magic of Witchcraft (Berghahn Books, 2010), which is based on fieldwork in rural Tanzania.
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