Jeremy Keenan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 81934 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jeremy Keenan |
| NOMBRES | Jeremy |
| APELLIDO | Keenan |
| FIRMA | KEENAN J |
| AFILIACIONES | SOAS University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1844-4879 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 60 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 132 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Attitudes towards staff mentoring by senior leaders of a College of Education in Ghana
Ten interviews of senior leaders gave a clear picture about what they considered mentoring should be in a College of Education in Ghana – a coaching model of directive instruction and a hierarchical transfer of skills and knowledge. While mentoring was viewed as a central part of a training teacher's course, funds, attitudes and workload did not allow for in-house mentoring of staff. These findings are discussed with observations of how gender an…
UK Foreign Policy and Intelligence in the Post-Truth Era
Recent terrorist attacks in the UK have raised questions over the relationship between Britain's foreign policy and terrorist attacks in the UK. The main arguments made by Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, his critics and the views of those charged with defending the UK from terrorism are summarized. The article argues that the UK government's reasons for denying a relationship between foreign policy and terrorist attacks are because of (1) evid…
T. J. Coles, Britain's Secret Wars
Singing better songs? A life history study of higher education teacher educators working in the English further education sector
There has been a growth in the last 10 years of higher education provision in the English further education sector. This article examines the thoughts and feelings of three higher-education-level teachers working in the further education sector. Using Ivor Goodson’s life history approach, it identifies a high degree of compliance with the system by the teachers. In order to justify the conflict between organisational and teacher concerns, key str…
The Dying Sahara
The Sahara
1. Introduction 2. The Climate-Environment-Society Nexus in the Sahara from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day 3. Writing Trans-Saharan History: Methods, Sources and Interpretations Across the African Divide 4. The North African Factor in Tajdeed Tradition In Hausa Land, Northern Nigeria 5. The Question of 'Race' in the Pre-Colonial Southern Sahara 6. Conceptualising the Sahara: The World of Nineteenth-Century Beyrouk Commerce 7. Briefing. Appr…
Mahāyāna Emptiness or « Absolute Nothingness »
Abe Masao’s contribution to late twentieth-century Buddhist-Christian dialogue was important in opening new avenues of interfaith understanding. However, some clarity in this dialogue was sacrificed when Christian participants were given to believe that they encountered « the Buddhist view » in Abe’s presentations. The present article contends that in significant ways Abe represented only the Kyōto School philosophy that drew on earlier Japanese …
Politique étrangère et guerre mondiale contre le terrorisme dans la reproduction du pouvoir algérien
Cet article révèle comment l’Algérie a géré sa politique étrangère depuis la « sale guerre » desannées 1990, grâce notamment à son alliance avec les États-Unis de l’après 11 septembre, pour retrouver une place dans la communauté internationale et rééquiper son armée en matériel moderne. Il met en évidence les contradictions inhérentes à ses relations avec les États-Unis, fondées sur la collusion des deux États dans l’invention du terrorisme et la…
Africa unsecured? The role of the Global War on Terror (GWOT) in securing US imperial interests in Africa
This paper explains and illustrates how the US Administration of President George W. Bush used the pretext of its global war on terror to justify the launch of a new African, Saharan–Sahelian front in the global war on terror, which in turn justified the creation of a new regional combatant command for Africa (AFRICOM) and the subsequent militarisation of much of Africa to meet and satisfy America's new imperial designs. It also explains why the …
Al-Qaeda terrorism in the Sahara? Edwin Dyer's murder and the role of intelligence agencies
In this article, Jeremy Keenan analyses the recent spate of 'westerners' taken hostage in the Sahara, reportedly by Al-Qaeda of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). The article, drawing on Keenan's earlier analyses of some three dozen hostage-takings in the region since the launch of the US 'War on terror' in the region in 2003, raises questions about the extent to which AQIM is associated with the Algerian and other regional intelligence services; the ex…
Uranium Goes Critical in Niger
The article analyses the causes and implications of the ongoing Tuareg rebellions in Niger and Mali. While the larger and more widespread rebellion in Niger is generally attributed to the Niger Tuareg's demands for a greater and more equitable share of the country's uranium revenues, the article reveals that both rebellions, while centering on grievances associated with marginalisation, indigenous land rights and the exploitation of mineral resou…
Demystifying Africa's Security
This article has had a brief but chequered history. I was initially invited to comment on this issue, partly because of my earlier criticisms (Keenan, 2008b) of Sean McFate's role and writing on as
US militarization in Africa
While portrayed by the US as the rationalisation of its post-Cold War global military command structure, AFRICOM is revealed as the culmination of a ten-year thought process within the US Department of Defense, during which time Africa's strategic importance to the US has undergone several reappraisals as a result of the US's increasing need to secure African resources, notably oil; its global war on terror (GWOT) and China's growing investment o…
The Banana Theory of Terrorism
Who Thought Rock Art Was About Archaeology? The Role of Prehistory in Algeria's Terror
My Country Right or Wrong
Sustainable Nomadism
Security & insecurity in North Africa
The article analyses the North African security situation over the last 15 or so years, but especially since the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, which provided the pre-emptive basis for the launch of Washington's global ‘War on Terror’. The article explains how and why the US, in collaboration with its lead ally in the region, Algeria, and with the cognisance of France and other European powers, duplicitously fabricated a new front in th…
North Africa
The making of terrorists
This article, based on almost eight years of continuous anthropological research amongst the Tuareg people of the Sahara and Sahel, suggests that the launch by the US and its main regional ally, Algeria, in 2002-2003 of a 'new', 'second', or 'Saharan' Front in the 'War on Terror' was largely a fabrication on the part of the US and Algerian military intelligence services. The 'official truth', embodied in an estimated 3,000 articles and reports of…
Conspiracy theories and 'terrorists
Funerary monuments and horse paintings
A preliminary expedition to record new rock art sites in the Tagant region of the Mauritanian Sahara led to the (re)discovery of previously unpublished stone-walled habitation and what are thought to be rectangular funerary monuments, built substantially and in profusion along the length of the sandstone ridge, Guilemsi. Paintings in cliffs below the top of the ridge depict antelope, giraffe, cattle and mounted horses, as well as camels, handprin…
Looting the Sahara
This research project began in 1999 and has continued over the subsequent six years,1 although with increasingly lengthy interruptions caused by the intrusion into the Sahara-Sahel of America's ‘wa
Waging war on terror
This article explains how and why the US administration and its allies in the region, notably Algeria, launched a new Saharan-Sahelian front in the global 'war on terror' in 2002–03. It argues that the justification for launching and maintaining this front was based on a massive deception involving the fabrication of 'terrorist incidents' in the Sahara by the military intelligence services of the countries involved. The deception, while beneficia…
The UNDP, the world bank and biodiversity in the Algerian Sahara
This article is in two parts. The first presents a critical review of two recent development plans for Saharan regions that include a strong ‘eco-tourism’ component: the World Bank (GEF)-UNDP (2002) conservation ‘biodiversity’ programme for Algeria's Great South, and a UNESCO (2003) pan-Saharan plan for tourism development. The article focuses on socio-political and geo-strategic aspects of the plans, arguing that: they are driven by the bi-later…
Waging war on terror
This article explains how and why the US administration and its allies in the region, notably Algeria, launched a new Saharan-Sahelian front in the global 'war on terror' in 2002–03. It argues that the justification for launching and maintaining this front was based on a massive deception involving the fabrication of 'terrorist incidents' in the Sahara by the military intelligence services of the countries involved. The deception, while beneficia…
Conspiracy theories and 'terrorists
Terror in the Sahara
Whichever way one looks at it, the Sahara has now become an extremely dangerous place. If one believes all that has been said and written on events in the Sahara by US and other (notably Algerian) military intelligence and associated government agencies and the media since early 2003, then the Sahara-Sahel region of Africa has become a front line in the ‘War on Terror’. If that is the case, the inability of the security forces to apprehend the ke…
The Lesser Gods of the Sahara
The northern Tuareg (the Tuareg of Algeria) - the nomadic, blue-veiled warlords of the Central Sahara - were finally defeated militarily by the French at the battle of Tit in 1902. Some sixty years later, following Algerian independence in 1962, they were visited by a young English anthropologist, Jeremy Keenan. During the course of seven years, Keenan studied their way of life, the social, political and economic changes that had taken place in t…
US militarization in Africa
While portrayed by the US as the rationalisation of its post-Cold War global military command structure, AFRICOM is revealed as the culmination of a ten-year thought process within the US Department of Defense, during which time Africa's strategic importance to the US has undergone several reappraisals as a result of the US's increasing need to secure African resources, notably oil; its global war on terror (GWOT) and China's growing investment o…
Security & insecurity in North Africa
The article analyses the North African security situation over the last 15 or so years, but especially since the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, which provided the pre-emptive basis for the launch of Washington's global ‘War on Terror’. The article explains how and why the US, in collaboration with its lead ally in the region, Algeria, and with the cognisance of France and other European powers, duplicitously fabricated a new front in th…
Uranium Goes Critical in Niger
The article analyses the causes and implications of the ongoing Tuareg rebellions in Niger and Mali. While the larger and more widespread rebellion in Niger is generally attributed to the Niger Tuareg's demands for a greater and more equitable share of the country's uranium revenues, the article reveals that both rebellions, while centering on grievances associated with marginalisation, indigenous land rights and the exploitation of mineral resou…
My Country Right or Wrong
The Banana Theory of Terrorism
Looting the Sahara
This research project began in 1999 and has continued over the subsequent six years,1 although with increasingly lengthy interruptions caused by the intrusion into the Sahara-Sahel of America's ‘wa
Funerary monuments and horse paintings
A preliminary expedition to record new rock art sites in the Tagant region of the Mauritanian Sahara led to the (re)discovery of previously unpublished stone-walled habitation and what are thought to be rectangular funerary monuments, built substantially and in profusion along the length of the sandstone ridge, Guilemsi. Paintings in cliffs below the top of the ridge depict antelope, giraffe, cattle and mounted horses, as well as camels, handprin…
The political economy of inflation
This article argues that inflation cannot simply be defined as a process of steadily rising prices, resulting in the diminishing purchasing power of a given sum of money. Rather, contemporary inflation is seen to have its roots in the revolution in bourgeois political economy after the crisis of 1929–1932 and the particular constraints on capital accumulation in the post‐war period
Power and Wealth are Cousins
Marital Strategies: The Manipulation of the RulesThe way in which the class structure is reproduced, and the implications and significance of these various rules for the two classes, can be seen in their marital strategies.Although the tawsatin (descent groups) of both classes exhibit a high rate of endogamy, there is no prescriptive rule of endogamy as such. The rules are defined in terms of incest categories, beyond which the pattern and effect…
The concept of the mode of production in hunter-gatherer societies
Africa unsecured? The role of the Global War on Terror (GWOT) in securing US imperial interests in Africa
This paper explains and illustrates how the US Administration of President George W. Bush used the pretext of its global war on terror to justify the launch of a new African, Saharan–Sahelian front in the global war on terror, which in turn justified the creation of a new regional combatant command for Africa (AFRICOM) and the subsequent militarisation of much of Africa to meet and satisfy America's new imperial designs. It also explains why the …
Al-Qaeda terrorism in the Sahara? Edwin Dyer's murder and the role of intelligence agencies
In this article, Jeremy Keenan analyses the recent spate of 'westerners' taken hostage in the Sahara, reportedly by Al-Qaeda of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). The article, drawing on Keenan's earlier analyses of some three dozen hostage-takings in the region since the launch of the US 'War on terror' in the region in 2003, raises questions about the extent to which AQIM is associated with the Algerian and other regional intelligence services; the ex…
Demystifying Africa's Security
This article has had a brief but chequered history. I was initially invited to comment on this issue, partly because of my earlier criticisms (Keenan, 2008b) of Sean McFate's role and writing on as
Ethnicity, regionalism and political stability in Algeria's Grand Sud
(2003). Ethnicity, regionalism and political stability in Algeria's Grand Sud. The Journal of North African Studies: Vol. 8, The Lesser Gods of the Sahara Social Change and Contested Terrain amongst the Tuareg of Algeria, pp. 67-96
The theft of Saharan rock-art
The Greatest Museum of Prehistoric Art in the whole World'. Such was the description Henri Lhote gave to the rock paintings of the Tassili-n- Ajjer , the massif (a designated World Heritage Site) that lies to the northeast of Ahaggar in the Algerian Central Sahara. His expedition spent 16 months in the Tassili in 1956-7 making 'discovery after discovery' and copying 'hundreds upon hundreds of painted walls'. Lhote's work is now recognized for its…
Politique étrangère et guerre mondiale contre le terrorisme dans la reproduction du pouvoir algérien
Cet article révèle comment l’Algérie a géré sa politique étrangère depuis la « sale guerre » desannées 1990, grâce notamment à son alliance avec les États-Unis de l’après 11 septembre, pour retrouver une place dans la communauté internationale et rééquiper son armée en matériel moderne. Il met en évidence les contradictions inhérentes à ses relations avec les États-Unis, fondées sur la collusion des deux États dans l’invention du terrorisme et la…
The Father's Friend
The Tuareg
The Tuareg veil
A noteworthy characteristic of all Tuareg groups is the veiling (anagad) of the men. A relative measure of the importance of the veil among the Tuareg, can be ascertained from the abundant terminology relating to its numerous features and attributes. Although there are differences in the style of the veil between various tribes and classes,2 the veil is a dominant symbol of Tuareg entity. This is reflected in the Tuareg's designation of themselve…
The Tuareg veil
A noteworthy characteristic of all Tuareg groups is the veiling (anagad) of the men. A relative measure of the importance of the veil among the Tuareg, can be ascertained from the abundant terminology relating to its numerous features and attributes. Although there are differences in the style of the veil between various tribes and classes,2 the veil is a dominant symbol of Tuareg entity. This is reflected in the Tuareg's designation of themselve…
Power and Wealth are Cousins
Marital Strategies: The Manipulation of the RulesThe way in which the class structure is reproduced, and the implications and significance of these various rules for the two classes, can be seen in their marital strategies.Although the tawsatin (descent groups) of both classes exhibit a high rate of endogamy, there is no prescriptive rule of endogamy as such. The rules are defined in terms of incest categories, beyond which the pattern and effect…
The concept of the mode of production in hunter-gatherer societies
The Tuareg
The Tuareg
The Tuareg
The Tuareg
Open minds and closed systems
The paper is in two parts. The first part is a specific critique of Orkin, Nicolaysen and Price''s paper entitled ‘The Future of the Urban University in South Africa’ (Social Dyna‐mics 5(1)). In particular, the critique draws attention to Orkin et aVs failure to understand (1) the complexity of the relationship between poverty, fertility and urbanization, (2) the relationship between economic growth and developmentjunderdevelopment, and (3) the n…
The Concept of the Mode of Production in Hunter-Gatherer Societies
An increasing number of anthropologists have come to conceive the discipline [anthropology] as that part of historical materialism which is concerned with the construction of the different modes of production required to produce the knowledge of the ‘primitive’ social formation (Llobera, 1974, p. 23). This statement is not open to dispute. Whether all anthropologists agree with this ‘trend’ or would want to be associated with it is quite another …
The political economy of inflation
This article argues that inflation cannot simply be defined as a process of steadily rising prices, resulting in the diminishing purchasing power of a given sum of money. Rather, contemporary inflation is seen to have its roots in the revolution in bourgeois political economy after the crisis of 1929–1932 and the particular constraints on capital accumulation in the post‐war period
Questioning Back
Chinese Religion in Western Languages
Nāgārjuna
Reforming poverty
1988). Reforming poverty: A Socio‐economic profile of Soweto households during the ‘reform’ era — 1978–1986. African Studies: Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 35-45
Spontaneity in Western martial arts
The mystique of martial arts
The article was intended to be provocative if not very ambitious. It is in large part a descriptive piece about popular culture in the West and how it attempts to embrace the traditional martial arts of the East. I performed no sociological analysis that might have provided a full picture of what a statistically significant portion of modern martial artists do and think. It is interesting that Dr. Stewart McFarlane -who teaches the only universit…
The Meaning of Christ
The Foundational Standpoint of Madhyamika Philosophy
Mādhyamika and Yogācāra
The Realm of Awakening
Mahayana Theology
The Continuity of Madhyamaka and Yogācāra in Indian Mahāyāna Buddhism
Dialogue and Language
"A Review of "Self and Liberation
Emptiness as a Paradigm for Understanding World Religions
Frederick Streng's understanding of emptiness in Mahayana tradition as category that can be profitably used in study of all world religions is one of his great accomplishments. Work is left to be done, however. A rationale for taking central tenet of one religious tradition and using it to analyze others must be clearly articulated. Further, articulation must be done in language that will make sense to Western (and other) thinkers not familiar wi…
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