War, Technology, Anthropology - Couverture souple

 
9780857455871: War, Technology, Anthropology
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0857455877 ISBN 13 : 9780857455871
Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2011

Synopsis

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 through their knowledge of "cultures," renamed as "human terrain systems." The chapters link varied yet crucial domains of inquiry: from battlefields technologies, military-driven scientific policy, and economic warfare, to martyrdom cosmology shifts, media coverage of "distant" wars, and the virtualizing techniques and "war porn" soundtracks of the gaming industry.

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À propos de l'auteur

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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Éditeur
Berghahn Books
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0857455877
ISBN 13 
9780857455871
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
158
Éditeur
Stroeken Koen
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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