Security and the culture expert: Dilemmas of an engaged anthropology

Political and Legal Anthropology Review

Volumn 33, Issue , 2010, Pages 126-142

  Goldstein, Daniel M ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Engaged anthropology; Expert knowledge; Human rights; Security

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955688191     PISSN: 10816976     EISSN: 15552934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1555-2934.2010.01071.x     Document Type: Article

References (89)

1. Abbott, Andrew, 1988 The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor. Chicago : University of Chicago Press.
2. Agamben, Giorgio, 2005 State of Exception. K.Atell, transl. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
3. Ahmed, Akbar S., and Cris N. Shore., eds.1995 The Future of Anthropology: Its Relevance to the Contemporary World. London and Atlantic Highlands, NJ : Athlone.
4. Albro, Robert, 2007 Anthropology’s Terms of Engagement with Security. Anthropology News 48(1):20-21.
5. Albro, Robert, 2008 Just-so Stories of the Anthropology-Military Debate? Paper presented in the forum “Anthropology’s Engagement with Security” at the Triangle Institute for Security Studies, University of North Carolina, October 6. Chapel Hill, NC.
6. American Anthropological Association2007 AAA Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities, Final Report. Washington, DC : American Anthropological Association.
7. Baker, Peter, 2010 Obama’s War Over Terror. In New York Times, Sunday Magazine, January 1: 30-46.
8. Beck, Ulrich, 1992 Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. London : Sage.
9. Bigo, Didier, 2002 Security and Immigration: Toward a Critique of the Governmentality of Unease. Alternatives 27:63-92.
10. Bratich, Jack, 2006 Public Secrecy and Immanent Security: A Strategic Analysis. Cultural Studies 20(4-5):493-511.
11. Buzan, Barry., Ole Waever., and Jaap De Wilde, 1998 Security: A New Framework for Analysis. Boulder and London : Lynne Reiner.
12. Calavita, Kitty, 1998 Immigration, Law, and Marginalization in a Global Economy: Notes from Spain. Law and Society Review 32(3):529-566.
13. Caldeira, Teresa P.R, 1996 Fortified Enclaves: The New Urban Segregation. Public Culture 8:303-328.
14. Cernea, Michael M, 2005 Studying the Culture of Agri-Culture: The Uphill Battle for Social Research in CGIAR. Culture and Agriculture 27(2):73-87.
15. Cleveland, David A, 2006 What Kind of Social Science Does the CGIAR, and the World, Need? Culture and Agriculture 28(1):4-9.
16. Coles, John P, 2006 Incorporating Cultural Intelligence into Joint Doctrine, Vol.2008. Electronic document, http://www.au.af.mil/info-ops/iosphere/iosphere_spring06_coles.pdf, accessed January 13, 2010.
17. Collier, Stephen J, 2008 Enacting Catastrophe: Preparedness, Insurance, Budgetary Rationalization. Economy and Society 37(2):224-250.
18. Collier, Stephen J., Andrew Lakoff., and Paul Rabinow, 2004 Biosecurity: Towards an Anthropology of the Contemporary. Anthropology Today 20(5):3-7.
19. Connable, Major Ben, 2004 Marines are from Mars, Iraqis are from Venus. Small Wars Journal. Electronic document, http://smallwarsjournal.com/documents/connable.pdf, accessed January 10, 2010.
20. Cornelius, Wayne A, 2004 Spain: The Uneasy Transition from Labor Exporter to Labor Importer. In Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective. Second edition. W.A.Cornelius, ed. Pp.387-438. Stanford : Stanford University Press.
21. Davis, Mike, 1992 City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. London : Vintage.
22. De Genova, Nicholas, 2002 Migrant “Illegality” and Deportability in Everyday Life. Annual Review of Anthropology 31:419-447.
23. Der Derian, James, 2009 Critical Practices in International Theory: Selected Essays. London and New York : Routledge.
24. Dubartell, Deborah, 2006 Computer-Mediated Communication: Human-to-Human Communication Across the Internet. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 16(2):284-285.
25. Elmer, Greg., and Andy Opel, 2006 Surviving the Inevitable Future. Cultural Studies 20(4):477-492.
26. Evans-Pritchard, E.E, 1937 Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande. Oxford : Clarendon.
27. FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)2003 Trade Reforms and Food Security: Conceptualizing the Linkages. Rome : Commodities and Trade Division.
28. Ferguson, R. Brian, 2008 The Challenge of Security Anthropology. Discussion paper prepared for presentation at the SAR seminar “Scholars, Security and Citizenship.” Santa Fe, NM.
29. Foucault, Michel, 2008 Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the College de France 1977-1978. New York : Palgrave Macmillan (Picador).
30. Fluehr-Lobban, Carolyn., and Monica Heller, 2007 Ethical Challenges for Anthropological Engagement: In National Security and Intelligence Work. Anthropology News 48(1):4.
31. Fried, Jacob, 1962 Social Organization and Personal Security in a Peruvian Hacienda Indian Community: Vicos. American Anthropologist 64(4):771-780.
32. Giddens, Anthony, 1999 Risk and Responsibility. The Modern Law Review 62(1):1-10.
33. Gill, Lesley, 2004 The School of the Americas: Military Training and Violence in the Americas. Durham, NC : Duke University Press.
34. Goldstein, Daniel M, 2004 The Spectacular City: Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia. Durham, NC : Duke University Press.
35. Goldstein, Daniel M, 2007 Human Rights as Culprit, Human Rights as Victim: Rights and Security in the State of Exception. In The Practice of Rights: Tracking Law Between the Global and the Local. M.Goodale and S.E.Merry, eds. Pp.49-77. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
36. Goldstein, Daniel M, 2010 Toward a Critical Anthropology of Security. Current Anthropology: Forthcoming.
37. González, Roberto J, 2007 Towards Mercenary Anthroplogy? Anthropology Today 23(3):14-19.
38. Goodman, Alan, 2006 Engaging with National Security. Anthropology News 47(2):63.
39. Green, Linda, 1999 Fear as a Way of Life: Mayan Widows in Rural Guatemala. New York : Columbia University Press.
40. Gusterson, Hugh, 2005 Spies in Our Midst. Anthropology News:39-40.
41. Gusterson, Hugh, 2007 Anthropology and Militarism. Annual Review of Anthropology 36:155-175.
42. Hale, Charles R., ed.2008 Engaging Contradictions: Theory, Politics, and Methods of Activist Scholarship. Berkeley : University of California Press.
43. Hay, James., and Mark Andrejevic, 2006 Introduction: Toward an Analytic of Governmental Experiments in These Times: Homeland Security as the New Social Security. Cultural Studies 20(4-5):331-348.
44. Hersch, Seymour, 2004 The Gray Zone: How a Secret Pentagon Program Came to Abu Ghraib. The New Yorker, May 24.
45. Himmelgreen, David A, 2002 “You Are What You Eat and You Eat What You Are:" The Role of Nutritional Anthropology in Public Health Nutrition and Nutrition Education. Nutritional Anthropology 25(1):2-9.
46. Hirsch, Susan, 2006 In the Moment of Greatest Calamity: Terrorism, Grief, and a Victim’s Quest for Justice. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press.
47. Huish, Robert, 2008 Human Security and Food Security in Geographical Study: Pragmatic Concepts or Elusive Theory? Geography Compass 2(5):1386-1403.
48. Hunt, Krista., and Kim Rygiel., eds.2006 (En)gendering the War on Terror: War Stories and Camouflaged Politics. Hampshire, UK : Ashgate.
49. Kelty, Christopher, 2005 Geeks, Social Imaginaries, and Recursive Publics. Cultural Anthropology 20(2):185-214.
50. Kilcullen, Lt. Col. David, 2006 Twenty-Eight Articles: Fundamentals of Company-Level Counterinsurgency. Military Review May/June:103-108.
51. Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara, 1994 Spaces of Dispersal. Cultural Anthropology 9(3):339-344.
52. Kracht, Uwe., and Manfred Schultz., eds.1999 Food Security and Nutrition: The Global Challenge. New York : St. Martin’s.
53. Lakoff, Andrew, 2007 Preparing for the Next Emergency. Public Culture 19(2):247-271.
54. Lakoff, Andrew, 2008 The Generic Biothreat, or, How We Became Unprepared. Cultural Anthroplogy 23(3):399-428.
55. Lakoff, Andrew., and Stephen J. Collier., eds.2008 Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question. New York : Columbia University Press.
56. Low, Setha M, 1997 Urban Fear: Building the Fortress City. City and Society 9(1):53-71.
57. Lutz, Catherine, 2001 Homefront: A Military City and the American Twentieth Century. Boston : Beacon.
58. MacFarlane, S. Neil., and Yuen Foong Khong, 2006 Human Security and the UN: A Critical History. Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press.
59. Masco, Joseph, 2006 The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press.
60. Maxwell, Simon., and Timothy R. Frankenberger, 1992 Household Food Security: Concepts, Indicators, Measurements: A Technical Review. New York and Rome : UNICEF and IFAD.
61. Maxwell, Simon., and M. Smith, 1992 Household Food Security: A Conceptual Review. In Household Food Security: Concepts, Indicators, Measurements: A Technical Review. S.Maxwell and T.R.Frankenberger, eds. Pp. 1-72. New York and Rome : UNICEF and IFAD.
62. McFarland, Colonel Maxie, 2005 Military Cultural Education. Military Review March-April:62-69.
63. McFate, Montgomery, 2005a Anthropology and Counterinsurgency: The Strange Story of Their Curious Relationship. Military ReviewMar/Apr:24-38.
64. McFate, Montgomery, 2005b The Military Utility of Understanding Adversary Culture. Joint Force Quarterly 38:42-48.
65. McFate, Montgomery, 2007 Building Bridges or Burning Heretics? Anthropology Today 23(3):21.
66. Menjívar, Cecilia, 2006 Liminal Legality: Salvadoran and Guatemalan Immigrants’ Lives in the United States. American Journal of Sociology 111(4):999-1037.
67. Mintz, Sidney W., and Christine M. Du Bois, 2002 The Anthropology of Food and Eating. Annual Review of Anthropology 31:99-119.
68. Nelson, Diane M, 1996 Maya Hackers and the Cyberspatialized Nation-State: Modernity, Ethnostalgia, and a Lizard Queen in Guatemala. Cultural Anthropology 11(3):287-308.
69. Network of Concerned Anthropologists, The2007 The Network of Concerned Anthropologists Pledges to Boycott Counterinsurgency. Anthropology News December:4.
70. Network of Concerned Anthropologists, The2009 The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual. Chicago : University of Chicago Press.
71. Nietzsche, Friedrich, 1974 [1882] The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rymes and an Appendix of Songs. New York : Vintage.
72. Packer, George, 2006 Knowing the Enemy: Can Social Scientists Redefine the “War on Terror”? TheNew Yorker:60-69.
73. Philips, Lynne, 2006 Food and Globalization. Annual Review of Anthropology 35:37-57.
74. Porter, Phillip W, 2006 Challenging Nature: Local Knowledge, Agroscience, and Food Security in Tanga Region, Tanzania. Chicago : University of Chicago Press.
75. Pottier, Johan, 1999 Anthropology of Food: The Social Dynamics of Food Security. Cambridge : Polity.
76. Price, David, 1998 Cold War Anthropology: Collaborators and Victims of the National Security State. Identities 4(3-4):389-430.
77. Price, David, 2005 America the Ambivalent: Quietly Selling Anthropology to the CIA. Anthropology Today 21(5):1-2.
78. Price, David, 2008 The Military “Leveraging” of Cultural Knowledge, Vol. 2008. Electronic document, http://www.counterpunch.org/price03182008.html, accessed January 10, 2010.
79. Ramos, Alcida Rita, 1999 Anthropologist as Political Actor. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 4(2):172-189.
80. Renzi, Lieutenant Colonel Fred, 2006 Networks: Terra Incognita and the Case for Ethnographic Intelligence. Military Review September-October:16-22.
81. Robben, Antonius C.G.M, 1996 Ethnographic Seduction, Transference, and Resistance in Dialogues about Terror and Violence in Argentina. Ethos 24(1):71-106.
82. Rohde, David, 2007 Army Enlists Anthropology in War Zones. New York Times, October 5. Electronic document, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/world/asia/05afghan.html, accessed January 10, 2010.
83. Scales, Major General Robert, 2004 Army Transformation: Implications for the Future. House Armed Services Committee. Washington, DC.
84. Selmeski, Brian R, 2007 Who are the Security Anthropologists? Anthropology News 48(5):11-12.
85. Skidmore, Monique, 2003 Darker than Midnight: Fear, Vulnerability, and Terror Making in Urban Burma. American Ethnologist 30(1):5-21.
86. Stepka, M.K, 2007 Anthropology and Intelligence Gathering. Anthropology News May:11.
87. Welch, Michael, 2006 Scapegoats of September 11: Hate Crimes and State Crimes in the War on Terror. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press.
88. Weldes, Jutta., et al., eds.1999 Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities, and the Production of Danger. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press.
89. West, Harry G, 2005 Kupilikula: Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique. Chicago : University of Chicago Press.