Human Terrain System, Anthropology and Counterinsurgency, the Minerva Research Initiative, and the Militarization of the University:
Minerva:
- The Pentagon’s Minerva Research Initiative
- 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
HTS, Counterinsurgency:
- Videos, Reports, Data on the Human Terrain System
- David Price, “Pilfered Scholarship Devastates General Petraeus’s Counterinsurgency Manual.” CounterPunch, 30 October 2007
- George Packer, “Knowing the Enemy: Can social scientists redefine the “war on terror”? The New Yorker, 18 December 2006
- David Kilcullen, “Twenty-Eight Articles: Fundamentals of Company-level Counterinsurgency,” March 2006
- Striking a Balance: A New American Security (Center for a New American Security [CNAS], 11 June 2009): With video, audio, transcripts, and powerpoint slides
- Information Traffickers of the Imperial State: American Anthropologists and Other Academics
- A discussion about Counterinsurgency — with Montgomery McFate and Sarah Sewall. On the Charlie Rose show, Monday, December 24, 2007
- Evan R. Goldstein, “Professors on the Battlefield: Where the warfare is more than just academic,” Wall Street Journal, 17 August 2007
- Tom Hayden, “Harvard’s Humanitarian Hawks,” The Nation, 14 July 2007
- Rohde, David. (2007/10/5). Army Enlists Anthropology in War Zones. The New York Times
- Bibliography and Archive: The Military, Intelligence Agencies, and the Academy (with special reference to anthropology) – Documents, News, Reports
- David Price: Human Terrain Systems Dissenter Resigns, Tells Inside Story of Training’s Heart of Darkness
- Mapping the Terrain of War Corporatism: The Human Terrain System within the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex
- Multiplying Human Terrain Dreams of Victory and Fortune
- American Anthropological Association. (2007). AAA Executive Board Statement on the Human Terrain System Project. October 31
- American Anthropological Association. (2007). AAA Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities, Final Report. November 4
- American Anthropological Association. (2009). AAA Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities (CEAUSSIC) — Final Report on The Army’s Human Terrain System Proof of Concept Program. Submitted to the Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association, October 14
- American Anthropological Association. (2010). Annual Meeting Podcast: War and Counter-Counterinsurgency. Blog of the American Anthropological Association, January 28
- BBC Radio 4: Anthropology at War
A conference organized by the workshop on Science, Technology, Society & the State
Audio from the 2008 conference on Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency
- David Price: “Soft Power, Hard Power and the Anthropological ‘Leveraging’ of Cultural ‘Assets’: Distilling the Theory, Politics and Ethics of Anthropological Counterinsurgency.”
- Hugh Gusterson: “The Cultural Turn in the War on Terror”
- Roberto J. Gonzalez: “‘Human Terrain’ and Indirect Rule: Theoretical, Practical, and Ethical Concerns”
- John D. Kelly: “The Moral Economy of War: Galula Fetishism and its Consequences for Pax Americana”
- Marshall Sahlins: Short introduction to “Destructions and Constructions of Conscience: Counterinsurgency and the Study of Culture”
(De)Militarizing the Canadian University:
- Opposition to Military Research in Universities
- Operation Objection: War Free Schools
- McGill reconsiders restrictions on research tied to military: Peggy Curran, Montreal Gazette, Monday, February 08, 2010
- Demilitarize McGill
- McGill Policy on military-funded research
- Military Research at McGill
- Keep Academia Out of the War Room
- Demilitarize McGill urges Senators to vote NO for proposed research policy
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