TY - BOOK
T1 - Anthropologists in the securityscape
T2 - Ethics, practice, and professional identity
AU - Albro, Robert
AU - Marcus, George E.
AU - McNamara, Laura A.
AU - Schoch-Spana, Monica
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2012 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - As the military and intelligence communities re-tool for the 21st century, the long and contentious debate about the role of social scientists in national security environments is dividing the disciplines with renewed passion. Yet, research shows that most scholars have a weak understanding of what today’s security institutions actually are and what working in them entails. This book provides an essential new foundation for the debate, with fine-grained accounts of the complex and varied work of cultural, physical, and linguistic anthropologists and archaeologists doing security-related work in governmental and military organizations, the private sector, and NGOs. In candid and provocative dialogues, leading anthropologists interrogate the dilemmas of ethics in practice and professional identity. Anthropologists in the SecurityScape is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand or influence the relationship between anthropology and security in the twenty-first century.
AB - As the military and intelligence communities re-tool for the 21st century, the long and contentious debate about the role of social scientists in national security environments is dividing the disciplines with renewed passion. Yet, research shows that most scholars have a weak understanding of what today’s security institutions actually are and what working in them entails. This book provides an essential new foundation for the debate, with fine-grained accounts of the complex and varied work of cultural, physical, and linguistic anthropologists and archaeologists doing security-related work in governmental and military organizations, the private sector, and NGOs. In candid and provocative dialogues, leading anthropologists interrogate the dilemmas of ethics in practice and professional identity. Anthropologists in the SecurityScape is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand or influence the relationship between anthropology and security in the twenty-first century.
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U2 - 10.4324/9781315434810
DO - 10.4324/9781315434810
M3 - Book
AN - SCOPUS:85106107341
SN - 9781611320121
BT - Anthropologists in the securityscape
PB - Taylor and Francis
ER -