– Nordstrom er krigsantropolog. Hun har mistet sin akademiske uskyldighet, som hun utrykker det, ved å være midt oppi krig og konflikt. I tillegg til å gjøre etnologiske studier om sivilbefolkningen i krig, har hun gjennom årene tatt mulighetene til å studere usynlig makt i krig nærmere. Begrepet 'shadows' er sentralt i boken og brukes i stedet for illegal eller kriminell. De skygger hun beskriver er internasjonale nettverk som handler i krigssoner. Det handler ikke bare om handel med ulovlige produkter som edelstener, narkotika og våpen, men også om å føre inn medisiner og mat til områder uten annen kontakt med omverden. Hun siterer fra intervjuer med flygere som flyr nødhjelp om dagen og diamanter om natten. Nordstrom støtter ikke skyggevirksomheten, men innser at det ofte er nettopp denne uformelle økonomien som gjør at samfunn henger sammen. Hun spør seg hvordan økonomer kan planlegge for utvikling etter fredsavtaler om 90% av pengene bytter hånd uten myndighetenes kjennskap.
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Shadows of War
Violence, Power, and International Profiteering in the Twenty-First Century
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. Les mer
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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.
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.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of California Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 306
- ISBN
- 9780520242418
- Utgivelsesår
- 2004
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
Om forfatteren
Carolyn Nordstrom is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of A Different Kind of War Story (1997) and the coeditor of Fieldwork under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Survival (California, 1995) and The Paths to Domination, Resistance, and Terror (California, 1992).
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