Weaponizing anthropology : social science in service of the militarized state

'Weaponizing Anthropology' documents how anthropological knowledge and ethnographic methods are harnessed by military and intelligence agencies in post-9/11 America to placate hostile foreign populations. Abstract: 'Weaponizing Anthropology' documents how anthropological knowledge and ethnographic methods are harnessed by military and intelligence agencies in post-9/11 America to placate hostile foreign populations The ongoing battle for hearts and minds in Iraq and Afghanistan is a military strategy inspired originally by efforts at domestic social control and counterinsurgency in the United States. Weaponizing Anthropology documents how anthropological knowledge and ethnographic methods are harnessed by military and intelligence agencies in post-9/11 America to placate hostile foreign populations. David H. Price outlines the ethical implications of appropriating this traditional academic discourse for use by embedded, militarized research teams.Price's inquiry into past relationships between anthropologists and the CIA, FBI, and Pentagon provides the historical base for this expose of the current abuses of anthropology by military and intelligence agencies. Weaponizing Anthropology explores the ways that recent shifts in funding sources for university students threaten academic freedom, as new secretive CIA-linked fellowship programs rapidly infiltrate American university campuses. Price examines the specific uses of anthropological knowledge in military doctrine that have appeared in a new generation of counterinsurgency manuals and paramilitary social science units like the Human Terrain Teams.David H. Price is the author of Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI's Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists and Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War. He is a member of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists and teaches at St. Martin's College in Lacey, Washington. 4e de couv.: In the years since September 11, 2001, David Price has been at the forefront of public debates over the ethical and political issues raised by using anthropology for America's terror wars. Weaponizing Anthropology critically details the rapid militarization of anthropology and incursions by the CIA and other intelligence agencies onto American university campuses. Price combines his expert knowledge of the history of anthropologists' collaborations with military and intelligence agencies with an activist stance opposing current efforts to weaponize anthropology in global counterinsurgency campaigns. With the rapid growth of American military operations relying on cultural knowledge as a strategic tool for conquest and control, disciplinary loyalties aligning anthropologists with the peoples they study are strained in new ways as military sponsors seek to transform research subjects into targets and collaborators. Weaponizing Anthropology presents political and ethical critiques of a new generation of counterinsurgency programs like Human Terrain Systems, and a broad range of new academic funding programs like the Minerva Consortium, the Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program, and the Intelligence Community Centers of Academic Excellence, that now bring the CIA and Pentagon onto university campuses. Weaponizing Anthropology is a concise and profound critique of the rapid transformation of American social science into an appendage of the National Security State 'weaponizing Anthropology' Documents How Anthropological Knowlege And Ethnographic Methods Are Harnessed By Military And Intelligence Agencies In Post-9/11 America To Placate Hostile Foreign Populations. Politics, Ethics, And The Military Intelligence Complex's Quiet Triumphal Return To Campus: War Is A Force That Gives Anthropology Ethics ; The Cia's University Spies : Prisp, Icsp, Nsep, And The Big Payback ; Social Science In Harness : The Gravitational Distortions Of The Minerva Consortium ; Silent Coup : How The Cia Welcomed Itself Back Onto American University Campuses Without Public Protest -- Manuals : Deconstructing The Texts Of Cultural Warfare: The Leaky Ship Of Human Terrain Systems ; Commandeering Scholarship : The New Counterinsurgency Manual, Anthropology, And Academic Pillaging ; The Military Leveraging Of Cultural Knowledge : The 2004 Stryker Report Evaluating Iraq Failures ; Rendering Cultural Complexities As Stereotype : Anthropological Reflections On The Special Forces Advisor Guide -- Counterinsurgency Theories, Fantasies, And Harsh Realities: Human Terrain Dissenter : Inside Human Terrain Team Training's Heart Of Darkness ; Going Native : Hollywood's Human Terrain Avatars ; Problems Of Counterinsurgent Anthropological Theory : Or, By The Time A Military Relies On Counterinsurgency For Foreign Victories It Has Already Lost ; Working For Robots : Human Terrain, Anthropologists And The War In Afghanistan. David H. Price. The ongoing battle for hearts and minds in Iraq and Afghanistan is a military strategy inspired originally by efforts at domestic social control and counterinsurgency in the United States. Weaponizing Anthropology documents how anthropological knowledge and ethnographic methods are harnessed by military and intelligence agencies in post-9/11 America to placate hostile foreign populations. David H. Price outlines the ethical implications of appropriating this traditional academic discourse for use by embedded, militarized research teams. Price's inquiry into past relationships between anthropologists and the CIA, FBI, and Pentagon provides the historical base for this expose of the current abuses of anthropology by military and intelligence agencies. Weaponizing Anthropology explores the ways that recent shifts in funding sources for university students threaten academic freedom, as new secretive CIA-linked fellowship programs rapidly infiltrate American university campuses. Price examines the specific uses of anthropological knowledge in military doctrine that have appeared in a new generation of counterinsurgency manuals and paramilitary social science units like the Human Terrain Teams. For the past 12,000 years, the earth has experienced a relatively stable climate. Today, that predictability has ended, and global warming is our new reality. Yet such shifting weather patterns threatened Homo sapiens once before, right here in North America as the continent was first being colonized. About 15,000 years ago, the weather began to warm, melting the glaciers of the Late Pleistocene and driving the beasts of the Ice Age toward extinction. In this new landscape, humans managed to adapt to unfamiliar habitats and dangerous creatures in the midst of a wildly fluctuating climate. Are there lessons for modern people lingering along this ancient trail? The author explores the full range of climate change, from the death of the Pleistocene megafauna to the disappearance of today's ice