Joy Rohde
Biographic Data
| ID | 124787 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joy Rohde |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joy |
| FAMILY NAME | Rohde |
| SIGNATURE | ROHDE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5043-9500 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Contest between Information and Uncertainty
This article argues that the Cold War - era battle between information and uncertainty is a critical origin point for contemporary social theory - informed, data-intensive projects of the US national security state. Beginning in the 1950s, international relations experts and government officials turned to digital computing to help make decisions under the unavoidable pressures of geopolitical uncertainty. By the 1970s, their data banks of politic…
Science and the State
Modern science and the modern state are inextricable and co-emergent.Indeed, the rise of the state form has been accomplished through the ways of knowing and extracting that scientific analysis makes possible -including classification, hierarchization, quantification, and reductionism.States have frequently used the sciences as powerful tools for defining and delimiting the polis, for expanding markets, and for deterring, threatening, and waging …
Beyond torture
In the wake of revelations about the American Psychological Association's complicity in the military's enhanced interrogation program, some psychologists have called upon the association to sever its ties to national security agencies. But psychology's relationship to the military is no short-term fling born of the War on Terror. This article demonstrates that psychology's close relationship to national security agencies and interests has long be…
J ill L epore . If Then
In this timely book, Jill Lepore argues that the Simulmatics Corporation laid the foundations of political predictive analytics and the widespread digital surveillance networks that feed it. Founded in 1959 by elite American social scientists and a charismatic Madison Avenue executive, Simulmatics promised to advance American liberalism through scientifically validated computer simulations of the American electorate. Instead, by 1970, the company…
War
Chapter 10 describes the curious case of the social science of war, which shed its social problem framing in the early postwar era. From the interwar years through to the late 1940s, war was a public-facing problem whose solution-the eradication of armed conflict-seemed within reach for many social scientists and their internationalist allies. Quincy Wright's magisterial and multi-disciplinary 1942 A Study of War exemplified the social-scientific…
Race and the making of American political science
Jessica Blatt’s Race and the Making of American Political Science is a welcome and important addition to the history of the social sciences and American political thought. With few exceptions, poli
Erika Lorraine Milam. Creatures of Cain
What, if anything, distinguishes humans from their primate relatives? Does “human nature” exist, and if so, is it inherently cooperative and progressive? Or might the main difference between humans and nonhuman animals lie in the former’s innate capacity for violence? Scientists have searched fossil records, animal behavior, and contemporary hunter-gatherer communities for the answers to these questions and more. Erika Lorraine Milam’s Creatures …
Looking Forward
Reviewed by: Looking Forward: Prediction and Uncertainty in Modern America by Jamie L. Pietruska Joy Rohde (bio) Looking Forward: Prediction and Uncertainty in Modern America. By Jamie L. Pietruska. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 288. Hardcover $45. Looking Forward is a creative, original, and deeply-researched monograph. It offers a lively and compelling account of the ways that technical experts, government officials, and every…
Pax Technologica
From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, a team of U.S. political scientists and computer specialists designed an automated, computerized information system that could ostensibly forecast conflict earlier and more accurately than human analysts. Named the Crisis Early Warning and Monitoring System (EWAMS), it sought to bring international relations scholarship and U.S. national security policy—traditionally qualitative and interpretive domains—und…
Neo-Evolutionist Anthropology, the Cold War, and the Beginnings of the World Turn in U.S. Scholarship
How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind
Journal Article How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality Get access Paul Erickson, Judy L. Klein, Lorraine Daston, Rebecca Lemov, Thomas Sturm, and Michael D. Gordin. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. viii, 259 pp. $35.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 2, September 2014, Pages 656–657, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau385 Published: 01 September 2014
Armed with Expertise
During the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon launched a counterinsurgency program called the Human Terrain System. The program embedded social scientists within military units to provide commanders with information about the cultures and grievances of local populations. The controversy it inspired was not new. Decades earlier, similar national security concerns brought the Department of Defense and American social scientist…
Ethical Imperialism
The last stand of the psychocultural Cold warriors
In 1966, the social scientists of the Simulmatics Corporation arrived in Saigon. Tasked by the Pentagon with helping to pacify South Vietnam, they conducted political and social psychological research on Viet Cong defectors, government soldiers, and Vietnamese villagers. This essay argues that Simulmatics's work captures some of the ironies of Cold War social science: its tendency to mask militarization behind the rhetoric of peaceful nation-buil…
Gray Matters
Journal Article Gray Matters: Social Scientists, Military Patronage, and Democracy in the Cold War Get access Joy Rohde Joy Rohde Joy Rohde is a postdoctoral fellow in the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 96, Issue 1, June 2009, Pages 99–122, https://doi.o…
AA and the Supremacy of Washington Anthropology
Armed with Expertise
During the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon launched a counterinsurgency program called the Human Terrain System. The program embedded social scientists within military units to provide commanders with information about the cultures and grievances of local populations. The controversy it inspired was not new. Decades earlier, similar national security concerns brought the Department of Defense and American social scientist…
Gray Matters
Journal Article Gray Matters: Social Scientists, Military Patronage, and Democracy in the Cold War Get access Joy Rohde Joy Rohde Joy Rohde is a postdoctoral fellow in the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 96, Issue 1, June 2009, Pages 99–122, https://doi.o…
Pax Technologica
From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, a team of U.S. political scientists and computer specialists designed an automated, computerized information system that could ostensibly forecast conflict earlier and more accurately than human analysts. Named the Crisis Early Warning and Monitoring System (EWAMS), it sought to bring international relations scholarship and U.S. national security policy—traditionally qualitative and interpretive domains—und…
The last stand of the psychocultural Cold warriors
In 1966, the social scientists of the Simulmatics Corporation arrived in Saigon. Tasked by the Pentagon with helping to pacify South Vietnam, they conducted political and social psychological research on Viet Cong defectors, government soldiers, and Vietnamese villagers. This essay argues that Simulmatics's work captures some of the ironies of Cold War social science: its tendency to mask militarization behind the rhetoric of peaceful nation-buil…
Race and the making of American political science
Jessica Blatt’s Race and the Making of American Political Science is a welcome and important addition to the history of the social sciences and American political thought. With few exceptions, poli
AA and the Supremacy of Washington Anthropology
Gray Matters
Journal Article Gray Matters: Social Scientists, Military Patronage, and Democracy in the Cold War Get access Joy Rohde Joy Rohde Joy Rohde is a postdoctoral fellow in the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 96, Issue 1, June 2009, Pages 99–122, https://doi.o…
Ethical Imperialism
The last stand of the psychocultural Cold warriors
In 1966, the social scientists of the Simulmatics Corporation arrived in Saigon. Tasked by the Pentagon with helping to pacify South Vietnam, they conducted political and social psychological research on Viet Cong defectors, government soldiers, and Vietnamese villagers. This essay argues that Simulmatics's work captures some of the ironies of Cold War social science: its tendency to mask militarization behind the rhetoric of peaceful nation-buil…
Armed with Expertise
During the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon launched a counterinsurgency program called the Human Terrain System. The program embedded social scientists within military units to provide commanders with information about the cultures and grievances of local populations. The controversy it inspired was not new. Decades earlier, similar national security concerns brought the Department of Defense and American social scientist…
Neo-Evolutionist Anthropology, the Cold War, and the Beginnings of the World Turn in U.S. Scholarship
How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind
Journal Article How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality Get access Paul Erickson, Judy L. Klein, Lorraine Daston, Rebecca Lemov, Thomas Sturm, and Michael D. Gordin. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. viii, 259 pp. $35.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 2, September 2014, Pages 656–657, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau385 Published: 01 September 2014
Pax Technologica
From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, a team of U.S. political scientists and computer specialists designed an automated, computerized information system that could ostensibly forecast conflict earlier and more accurately than human analysts. Named the Crisis Early Warning and Monitoring System (EWAMS), it sought to bring international relations scholarship and U.S. national security policy—traditionally qualitative and interpretive domains—und…
Looking Forward
Reviewed by: Looking Forward: Prediction and Uncertainty in Modern America by Jamie L. Pietruska Joy Rohde (bio) Looking Forward: Prediction and Uncertainty in Modern America. By Jamie L. Pietruska. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 288. Hardcover $45. Looking Forward is a creative, original, and deeply-researched monograph. It offers a lively and compelling account of the ways that technical experts, government officials, and every…
War
Chapter 10 describes the curious case of the social science of war, which shed its social problem framing in the early postwar era. From the interwar years through to the late 1940s, war was a public-facing problem whose solution-the eradication of armed conflict-seemed within reach for many social scientists and their internationalist allies. Quincy Wright's magisterial and multi-disciplinary 1942 A Study of War exemplified the social-scientific…
Race and the making of American political science
Jessica Blatt’s Race and the Making of American Political Science is a welcome and important addition to the history of the social sciences and American political thought. With few exceptions, poli
Erika Lorraine Milam. Creatures of Cain
What, if anything, distinguishes humans from their primate relatives? Does “human nature” exist, and if so, is it inherently cooperative and progressive? Or might the main difference between humans and nonhuman animals lie in the former’s innate capacity for violence? Scientists have searched fossil records, animal behavior, and contemporary hunter-gatherer communities for the answers to these questions and more. Erika Lorraine Milam’s Creatures …
J ill L epore . If Then
In this timely book, Jill Lepore argues that the Simulmatics Corporation laid the foundations of political predictive analytics and the widespread digital surveillance networks that feed it. Founded in 1959 by elite American social scientists and a charismatic Madison Avenue executive, Simulmatics promised to advance American liberalism through scientifically validated computer simulations of the American electorate. Instead, by 1970, the company…
Beyond torture
In the wake of revelations about the American Psychological Association's complicity in the military's enhanced interrogation program, some psychologists have called upon the association to sever its ties to national security agencies. But psychology's relationship to the military is no short-term fling born of the War on Terror. This article demonstrates that psychology's close relationship to national security agencies and interests has long be…
The Contest between Information and Uncertainty
This article argues that the Cold War - era battle between information and uncertainty is a critical origin point for contemporary social theory - informed, data-intensive projects of the US national security state. Beginning in the 1950s, international relations experts and government officials turned to digital computing to help make decisions under the unavoidable pressures of geopolitical uncertainty. By the 1970s, their data banks of politic…
Science and the State
Modern science and the modern state are inextricable and co-emergent.Indeed, the rise of the state form has been accomplished through the ways of knowing and extracting that scientific analysis makes possible -including classification, hierarchization, quantification, and reductionism.States have frequently used the sciences as powerful tools for defining and delimiting the polis, for expanding markets, and for deterring, threatening, and waging …
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