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Micronesia as strategic colony: the impact of U.S. policy on Micronesian health and culture
In: Occasional paper 12
Bureaucratic Weaponry and the Production of Ignorance in Military Operations on Guam
In: Current anthropology, Volume 60, Issue S19, p. S108-S121
ISSN: 1537-5382
The Theater of Operations: National Security Affect from the Cold War to the War on Terror by JosephMasco.Durham: Duke University Press, 2014. 280 pp
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 118, Issue 1, p. 203-204
ISSN: 1548-1433
Commentaries on "Knowledge & Empire: The Social Sciences & United States Imperial Expansion"
In: Identities: global studies in culture and power, Volume 17, Issue 1, p. 62-66
ISSN: 1070-289X
U.S. Bases and Empire: Global Perspectives on the Asia Pacific
In: Japan Focus, 2009
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U.S. Foreign Military Bases: The Edge and Essence of Empire
In: Ida Susser and Jeffrey Maskovsky, eds. Rethinking America, 2009
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Empire Is in the Details
In: American Ethnologist, Volume 33, Issue 4, p. 593-611
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Living Room Terrorists: Rates of Domestic Violence Are Three to Five Times Higher among Military Couples than among Civilian Ones
In: The women's review of books, Volume 21, Issue 5, p. 17
Militarization
In: David Nugent and Joan Vincent, eds. A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics. New York: Blackwell, 2004
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Making War at Home in the United States: Militarization and the Current Crisis
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 104, Issue 3, p. 723-735
ISSN: 1548-1433
Our job as intellectuals, this article argues, is to struggle to understand the crisis presented by terrorism in all its forms. This can center on a theoretical account of militarization and its relationship to broader social changes, from the emergence of nationstates to the course of racialization and other inequalities to the convergence of interests in military spending. The article gives a terse historical account of the 20th‐century history of the militarization process and of the distinct modes of warfare that have developed over that time. To account for the growth of militarization over the last half of the century requires a focus on the growth of U.S. hegemony and the naming of the empire that dominated the global scene as the most recent crisis opened on September 11, 2001. This account suggests how we can connect these global and national histories with specific ethnographically understood places and people, giving some examples from ethnographic and historical research in a military city, Fayetteville, North Carolina. Finally, this review of militarization suggests that the attacks on the United States, and the war that followed, represent a continuation and acceleration of ongoing developments, rather than sharp openings in history. These new developments include reasons for hope that the legitimacy of violence and empire may also be under challenge. [Keywords: militarization, modes of warfare, United States, ethnography of empire]
The Wars Less Known
In: South Atlantic Quarterly, 101 (2): pp. 285-296, Spring 2002
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