Shadows of war : violence, power, and international profiteering in the twenty-first century
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Shadows of war : violence, power, and international profiteering in the twenty-first century
（California series in public anthropology, 10）
University of California Press, c2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-282) and index
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: cloth ISBN 9780520239777
内容説明
In this provocative and compelling examination of the deep politics of war, Carolyn Nordstrom takes us from the immediacy of war-zone survival, through the offices of power brokers, to vast extra-legal networks that fuel war and international profiteering. She captures the human face of the front lines, revealing both the visible and the hidden realities of war in the twenty-first century. Shadows of War is grounded in ethnographic research carried out at the epicenters of political violence on several continents. Its pages are populated not only with the perpetrators and victims of war but also with the scoundrels, silent heroes, and average families who live their lives in the midst of explosive violence. War reconfigures our most basic notions of humanity, Nordstrom demonstrates. This book, of crucial importance at the present moment, shows that war is enmeshed in struggles over the very foundations of the sovereign state, the crafting of economic empires both legal and illegal, and innovative searches for peace.
Nordstrom describes the multi-trillion-dollar international financial networks that support warfare. She traces the entangled routes by which illegal drugs, precious gems, weapons, basic food supplies, and pharmaceuticals are moved by an international cast of businesspeople, profiteers, and black-market operators. Shadows of War demonstrates how the experiences of both the architects of war and of ordinary people are deleted from media accounts and replaced with stories about soldiers, weapons, and territory. For the first time, this book retrieves from the shadows the faces of those whose stories seldom reach the light of international recognition.
目次
Acknowledgments
PART ONE: INTRODUCTIONS
1. Prologue
2. A Conversation in a Bar at the Front
3. Making Things Invisible
PART TWO: WAR
4. Finding the Front Lines
5. Violence
6. Power
PART THREE: SHADOWS
7. Entering the Shadows
8. A First Exploratory Definition of the Shadows
9. The Cultures of the Shadows: The Meat, Potatoes, Diamonds, and Guns of Daily Life
PART FOUR: PEACE?
10. The Institutionalization of the Shadows: (Habits of War Mar Landscapes of Peace)
11. The Autobiography of a Man Called Peace
12. The Time of Not War Not Peace
13. Peace
14. The Problems with Peace
PART FIVE: DANGEROUS PROFITS
15. Ironies in the Shadows: (Literally) Untold Profits and a Key Source of Development
16. Why Don't We Study the Shadows?
17. Epilogue: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Postscript: The War of the Month Club Iraq
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780520242418
内容説明
In this provocative and compelling examination of the deep politics of war, Carolyn Nordstrom takes us from the immediacy of war-zone survival, through the offices of power brokers, to vast extra-legal networks that fuel war and international profiteering. She captures the human face of the front lines, revealing both the visible and the hidden realities of war in the twenty-first century. "Shadows of War" is grounded in ethnographic research carried out at the epicenters of political violence on several continents. Its pages are populated not only with the perpetrators and victims of war but also with the scoundrels, silent heroes, and average families who live their lives in the midst of explosive violence. War reconfigures our most basic notions of humanity, Nordstrom demonstrates. This book, of crucial importance at the present moment, shows that war is enmeshed in struggles over the very foundations of the sovereign state, the crafting of economic empires both legal and illegal, and innovative searches for peace. Nordstrom describes the multi-trillion-dollar international financial networks that support warfare.
She traces the entangled routes by which illegal drugs, precious gems, weapons, basic food supplies, and pharmaceuticals are moved by an international cast of businesspeople, profiteers, and black-market operators. "Shadows of War" demonstrates how the experiences of both the architects of war and of ordinary people are deleted from media accounts and replaced with stories about soldiers, weapons, and territory. For the first time, this book retrieves from the shadows the faces of those whose stories seldom reach the light of international recognition.
目次
Acknowledgments PART ONE: INTRODUCTIONS 1. Prologue 2. A Conversation in a Bar at the Front 3. Making Things Invisible PART TWO: WAR 4. Finding the Front Lines 5. Violence 6. Power PART THREE: SHADOWS 7. Entering the Shadows 8. A First Exploratory Definition of the Shadows 9. The Cultures of the Shadows: The Meat, Potatoes, Diamonds, and Guns of Daily Life PART FOUR: PEACE? 10. The Institutionalization of the Shadows: (Habits of War Mar Landscapes of Peace) 11. The Autobiography of a Man Called Peace 12. The Time of Not War Not Peace 13. Peace 14. The Problems with Peace PART FIVE: DANGEROUS PROFITS 15. Ironies in the Shadows: (Literally) Untold Profits and a Key Source of Development 16. Why Don't We Study the Shadows? 17. Epilogue: Two Sides of the Same Coin Postscript: The War of the Month Club--Iraq Notes Bibliography Index
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