Pax Britannica

Abstract

Intro -- Title Page -- preface [2014] -- preface and statement of disclosure [1994] -- list of illustrations and tables -- Chapter One: -- The 'Tribe in the Desert': Anthropology and the War Machine -- a war by any other name... -- bloody theory -- making war on culture -- the anthropology of political violence in Northern Ireland -- the war machine -- Chapter Two: -- Counterinsurgency and Lethal Exchange -- the counter-insurgency loop -- muzzling dogs/suppressing rebellion -- walk softly: constraints on the use of force -- counterinsurgency cul-de-sac -- the dogs of war -- Chapter Three: -- Force and Counter-Force -- peacekeeping -- communists do not play golf -- ubermensch boyscouts -- the terrible paradox -- Chapter Four: -- Permanent Emergency and the Control of Force -- savagery, disorder, terrorism -- the status of war -- cultural permanence -- martial law/military culture -- permanent emergency -- Chapter Five: -- Systems Intelligence/Intelligent Systems -- mastery of the neo-nomadic -- no one is innocent in West Belfast -- point blank -- the tribes at war -- Chapter Six: -- The Death of Culture: Hungerstrikes against Counter-Insurgency -- tradition, famine, law -- spectacular death -- silent bodies, warring bodies -- body-map -- republican mandates -- Chapter Seven: -- In Conclusion: Thing-killing Lethality -- derealization and hyper-vigilant paranoid inversion -- military compassion and anti-politics -- Appendix 1: principle security legislation -- Appendix 2: victorian small wars (1837-1901) -- Appendix 3: brush fire wars -- Appendix 4: security statistics -- Appendix 5: glossary and list of abbreviations -- bibliography -- Footnotes.