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War, Technology, Anthropology Koen Stroeken

War, Technology, Anthropology By Koen Stroeken

War, Technology, Anthropology by Koen Stroeken


Summary

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.

War, Technology, Anthropology Summary

War, Technology, Anthropology by Koen Stroeken

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.

About Koen Stroeken

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: War Technology Anthropology
Koen Stroeken

Part I: Perpetuating War

Chapter 1. Drones in the Tribal Zone: Virtual War and Losing Hearts and Minds in the Af-Pak War
Jeffrey A. Sluka

Chapter 2. The Dead of Night: Chaos and Spectacide of Nocturnal Combat in the Iraq War
Antonius C.G.M. Robben

Chapter 3. World in a Bottle: Prognosticating Insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan
Roberto J. Gonzalez

Chapter 4. Anthropology As We Know It - A Casualty of War?
R. Brian Ferguson

Part II: Globalizing War

Chapter 5. Games Without Tears, Wars Without Frontiers
Robertson Allen

Chapter 6. Music, Aesthetics, and the Technologies of Online War
Matthew Sumera

Chapter 7. Humanitarian Death and the Magic of Global War in Uganda
Sverker Finnstroem

Chapter 8. Resident Violence: Miner mwanga magic as a war technology anthropology
Koen Stroeken

Chapter 9. The Magic of Martyrdom and Cultural Imaginaries in Palestine
Neil L. Whitehead and Nasser Abufarha

Additional information

NLS9780857455871
9780857455871
0857455877
War, Technology, Anthropology by Koen Stroeken
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Berghahn Books
2011-12-01
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