Repeating Imperial Anthropology
Topics covered include:
• militarized anthropology • military propaganda • critiques of militarization
Required Readings:
Chapter 3, Price, David, “Faking Scholarship,” pp. 59-76, in: Network of Concerned Anthropologists. (2009). The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual: Or, Notes on Demilitarizing American Society. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press.
Chapter 4, Feldman, Greg, “Radical or Reactionary?” pp. 77-93, in: Network of Concerned Anthropologists. (2009). The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual: Or, Notes on Demilitarizing American Society. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press.
Chapter 7, Bickford, Andrew, “Anthropology and HUMINT,” pp. 135-151, in: Network of Concerned Anthropologists. (2009). The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual: Or, Notes on Demilitarizing American Society. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press.
Chapter 8, Lin, Kanhong, “About Face!” pp. 153-169, in: Network of Concerned Anthropologists. (2009). The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual: Or, Notes on Demilitarizing American Society. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press.
» Structured outline (worth 5%): please send via email, as an attachment in .odt, .doc., .docx, or .pdf to: maximilian.forte@concordia.ca, by the end of the day.
» Presentations, peer review (worth 10%): Five students presenting for this session, commentary and questions expected from seminar participants.
Optional Readings in the New Imperialism Course Pack on Reserve:
Department of the Army, U.S. (2006). Counterinsurgency Field Manual, FM 3-24/MCWP 3-33.5. (Washington, D.C.: Headquarters, Department of the Army, 2006) – Ch. 3, “Intelligence in Counterinsurgency,” 3-1—3-35
Roberto J. GONZÁLEZ.
(2007). Towards mercenary anthropology? US Counterinsurgency Field Manual 3-24 and the military-anthropology complex. Anthropology Today, 23 (3): 14-19.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (U.S.). (2008). Broad Agency Announcement Number W911NF-08-R-0007 (Solicitation of grant proposals for the Minerva Research Initiative).
Priya SATIA. (2008). The forgotten history of knowledge and power in British Iraq, or why Minerva’s owl cannot fly. Social Science Research Council: The Minerva Controversy, October 17.
Conor GEARTY. (2008). Skewing scholarship. Social Science Research Council: The Minerva Controversy, October 9.
Additional Resources:
- Global Uncertainties: Security for All in a Changing World (UK)
- National Security Research and the Geopolitical Context of Knowledge Production
- More Minerva News and Discussion
- Information Traffickers of the Imperial State: American Anthropologists and Other Academics
- McGill reconsiders restrictions on research tied to military: Peggy Curran, Montreal Gazette, Monday, February 08, 2010
