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The Ethnography of Political Violence Ser.: Iraq at a Distance : What Anthropologists Can Teach Us about the War by Antonius C. G. M. Robben (2011, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Pennsylvania Press

ISBN-100812221834

ISBN-139780812221831

eBay Product ID (ePID)108169204

Product Key Features

Number of Pages200 Pages

Publication NameIraq at a Distance : What Anthropologists Can Teach Us about the War

LanguageEnglish

SubjectTerrorism, Sociology / General, Military / Iraq War (2003-2011), Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Anthropology / General

Publication Year2011

TypeTextbook

AuthorAntonius C. G. M. Robben

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science, History

SeriesThe Ethnography of Political Violence Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight10.2 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2009-027546

Dewey Edition22

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal303.6/6

Table Of ContentPreface Ethnographic Imagination at a Distance: An Introduction to the Anthropological Study of the Iraq War --Antonius C. G. M. Robben Chapter 1. "Night Fell on a Different World": Dangerous Visions and the War on Terror, a Lesson from Cambodia --Alexander Laban Hinton Chapter 2. The War on Terror and Women's Rights in Iraq --Nadje Al-Ali Chapter 3. The War on Terror, Dismantling, and the Construction of Place: An Ethnographic Perspective from Palestine --Julie Peteet Chapter 4. Losing Hearts and Minds in the "War on Terrorism" --Jeffrey A. Sluka Chapter 5. Mimesis in a War Among the People: What Argentina's Dirty War Reveals About Counterinsurgency in Iraq --Antonius C. G. M. Robben Epilogue --Ibrahim Al-Marashi List of Contributors Index

SynopsisIraq at a Distance describes the plight of the Iraqi people, caught since 2003 in the carnage between U.S. troops and Iraqi insurgents. This provocative book is a bold attempt by five distinguished anthropologists to study an inaccessible war zone through ground-breaking comparisons with armed conflicts around the world., The Iraq War has cost innumerable lives, caused vast material destruction, and inflicted suffering on millions of people. Iraq at a Distance: What Anthropology Can Teach Us About the War focuses on the plight of the Iraqi people, caught since 2003 in the carnage between U.S. and British troops on one side and, on the other, Iraqi insurgents, militias, and foreign al Qaeda operatives. The volume is a bold attempt by six distinguished anthropologists to study a war zone too dangerous for fieldwork. They break new ground by using their ethnographic imagination as a research tool to analyze the Iraq War through insightful comparisons with previous and current armed conflicts in Cambodia, Israel, Palestine, Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, and Argentina. This innovative approach extends the book's relevance beyond a critical understanding of the devastating war in Iraq. More and more parts of the world of long-standing ethnographic interest are becoming off-limits to researchers because of the war on terror. This book serves as a model for the study of other inaccessible regions, and it shows that the impossibility of conducting ethnographic fieldwork does not condemn anthropologists to silence. Essays analyze the good-versus-evil framework of the war on terror, the deterioration of women's rights in Iraq under fundamentalist coercion, the ethnic-religious partitioning of Baghdad through the building of security walls, the excessive use of force against Iraqi civilians by U.S. counterinsurgency units, and the loss of popular support for U.S. and British forces in Iraq and Afghanistan after the brutal regimes of the Taliban and Saddam Hussein had been toppled.

LC Classification NumberGN497.I73 2011