SIS 202 PART III (Week 9.5)
Contemporary Debates and Vexed Issues
May 28
LECTURE: DEBATES OF OUR TIMES: THE GLOBAL GREY ZONE
**Third New York Times Quiz**
Required Readings:
Readings for today are from a series of short pieces most easily available as links to on-line sources.
While the list is long, the page total for today is only 33 magazine pages.
Hersh, Seymour M.
2004
Annals of National Security: The Gray Zone: In The New Yorker. Vol. 80:13
(May 24, 2004.) Pp. 38-43.
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/05/24/040524fa_fact
Mayer, Jane
2005
The Annals of Justice: Out-sourcing Torture: The Secret History of America's
"Extraordinary Rendition" Program. In The New Yorker. Vol. 81:1 (Febuary 14,
2005). Pp.106 -130.
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/02/14/050214fa_fact6
Gourevitch, Philip, and Errol Morris
2008
Annals of War: Exposure: The Woman Behind the Camera at Abu Gharib. In
The New Yorker. Vol. 84:6 (March 24, 2008). Pp. 44-57.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/24/080324fa_fact_gourevitch
May 29
SECTION: Discussion of Readings
May 30
LECTURE: DEBATES OF OUR TIMES: THE HUMAN TERRAIN OF
GLOBAL COUNTER-INSURGENCY
Required Readings:
Readings for today are from a series of short pieces most easily available as links to on-line sources.
See course website for active links.
Do not be afraid: while the list is long, the page total for today is only 27 magazine pages.
Rober M. Gates, Secretary of Defense
2008
Speech Delivered to the Association of American Universities (Washington DC) on April
12, 2008. Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Public Affairs Division: U.S.
Department of Defense.
http://www.defenselink.mil/speeches/speech.aspx?speechid=1228
George Packer
2006
Knowing the enemy: Can social scientists redefine the “war on terror”? In The New
Yorker. Vol. 82:42 (December 18, 2006). Pp.60-69.
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/12/18/061218fa_fact2
Ephron, Dan, and Sylvia Spring
2008
A Gun in One Hand, A Pen in the Other. In Newsweek. Vol. 151:16 (April 21, 2008). Pp
34-35.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/131752
González, Roberto J.
2007
Towards mercenary anthropology? The new US Army counterinsurgency manual FM 3–
24 and the military-anthropology complex. Anthropology Today 23(3):14-19.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1467-8322.2007.00511.x
González, Roberto J.
2008
‘Human terrain’: Past, present and future applications. Anthropology Today 24(1):21-26.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.14678322.2008.00561.x%40anth.2008.24.issue-v1
González, Roberto J.
2007
Patai and Abu Gharib. Anthropology Today 23(5):23-23.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1467-8322.2007.00538.x
Kilcullen, David
2007
Ethics, Politics, and Non-State Warfare. Anthropology Today 23(3):20-20.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1467-8322.2007.00512.x
McFate, Montgomery
2007
Building Bridges or Burning Heretics? Anthropology Today 23(3):21-21.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1467-8322.2007.00513.x
Gusterson, Hugh
2007
Anthropologists and War. A response to David Kilcullen. Anthropology Today 23(4):2323.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1467-8322.2007.00526.x
McFate, Montgomery, and Lt. Col. Steve Fondacaro
2007
Cultural Knowledge and Common Sense. A response to González in this issue.
Anthropology Today 24(1):27-27.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.14678322.2008.00562.x%40anth.2008.24.issue-v1
June 2
LECTURE: PROBLEMS OF ETHICS AND ACTION
Required Readings:
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy
1995
The Primacy of the Ethical: Propositions for a Militant Anthropology. Current
Anthropology 36(3):409-440.
Gledhill, John
2000
Anthropology and politics: Commitment, Responsibility, and the Academy. In Power and
its disguises: anthropological perspectives on politics. Pp. 214-242. London: Pluto Press.
Handouts (print from website):
“SIS 202 Final Exam Study Guide”