Title:
Iraq at a distance : what anthropologists can teach us about the war / edited by Antonius C.G.M. Robben.
Author:
Robben, Antonius C. G. M.
Publication Information:
Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press ; Oxford : Oxford Creative Marketing [distributor], 2011.
Call Number:
GN497 .I73 2010
Abstract:
"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 primarily 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."--Back cover.
ISBN:
9780812221831
Series:
The ethnography of political violence
Ethnography of political violence.
Physical Description:
ix, 186 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
General Note:
Originally published: 2010.
Contents:
Ethnographic imagination at a distance: an introduction to the anthropological study of the Iraq War / Antonius C.G.M. Robben -- "Night fell on a different world": dangerous visions and the War on Terror, a lesson from Cambodia / Alexander Laban Hinton -- The War on Terror and women's rights in Iraq / Nadje Al-Ali -- The War on Terror, dismantling, and the construction of place: an ethnographic perspective from Palestine / Julie Peteet -- Losing hearts and minds in the "War on Terrorism" / Jeffrey A. Sluka -- Mimesis in a war among the people: what Argentina's dirty war reveals about counterinsurgency in Iraq / Antonius C.G.M. Robben.
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