Dr. David Price lecture - UW Anthropology Dept - March 18th, 2010

[Allyson Rowat]

The University of Waterloo's Department of Anthropology and the Faculty of
Arts presents a guest lecture by Dr. David Price, Professor of Anthropology,
St. Martin's University, Washington entitled "Anthropology and
Counterinsurgency: the problems of harnessing Anthropology for
counterinsurgent conquests"  on Thursday, March 18, 2010, 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
in the Arts Language Building, AL Room 113.

 

David Price uses archival sources, interviews and documents released under
the Freedom of Information Act to critically examine historical and present
interactions between U.S. military and intelligence agencies and
anthropologists.  While the Obama administration and U.S. military
strategists are calling for increased reliance on anthropologically informed
counterinsurgency programs to achieve a military victory in Afghanistan,
historically, military victories relying on counterinsurgency have rarely
been accomplished.  Price examines records from past and present uses of
anthropologically informed counterinsurgency operations to consider the
historical, theoretical, political and ethical problems enmeshed in trying
to use counterinsurgency for military conquest, and considers the likelihood
that by the time a military relies on counterinsurgency for victory in a
foreign war, it has already lost.

 

All welcome!

 

 

Allyson Rowat

Department Secretary (Undergraduate & Graduate) 

Department of Anthropology (PAS 2012) 

University of Waterloo 200 University Avenue West 

Waterloo, ON, Canada  N2L 3G1

(519) 888-4567, ex. 32520

 

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