Iraq 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.
Iraq 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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Antonius C. G. M. Robben is Professor of Anthropology at Utrecht University. His books include Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press, as well as the edited volumes Fieldwork Under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Survival (with Carolyn Nordstrom) and Cultures Under Siege: Collective Violence and Trauma (with Marcelo Suarez-Orozco).
Inhaltsangabe
Preface 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
Preface 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
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