Global privatized power
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2616353 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Theresia Starzmann (McGill University [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 2015 |
| Issue | 73 |
| Pages | 114-124 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Focaal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0920-1297 • E-ISSN: 1558-5263 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/fcl.2015.730109 |
| OpenAlex | W2328490321 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
The practice of archaeologists and other heritage specialists to embed with the US military in Iraq has received critical attention from anthropologists. Scholars have highlighted the dire consequences of such a partnership for cultural heritage protection by invoking the imperialist dimension of archaeological knowledge production. While critical of state power and increasingly of militarized para-state actors like the self-proclaimed Islamic State, these accounts typically eclipse other forms of collaboration with non-state organizations, such as private military and security companies (PMSCs). Focusing on the central role of private contractors in the context of heritage missions in Iraq since 2003, I demonstrate that the war economy's exploitative regime in regions marked by violent conflict is intensified by the growth of the military-industrial complex on a global scale. Drawing on data from interviews conducted with archaeologists working in the Middle East, it becomes clear how archaeology and heritage work prop up the coloniality of power by tying cultural to economic forms of control
Archaeology · Cultural heritage · Cultural heritage management · Economics · Economy · Islam · Militarization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Tying · Archaeological Research and Protection · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · History · Law
Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America
An Archaeology of/for the Disenfranchised
The “War on Terror” and the Military–Archaeology Complex
Archaeologists and the Military in Iraq, 2003–2008
The looting of the Iraq Museum
Iraq, stewardship and ‘the record’
The Archaeology of the Disenfranchised
Kill anything that moves
The endgame of globalization
On "tribes" and bribes
Empire is in the details
Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and Decolonial Freedom
Towards mercenary anthropology? The new US Army counterinsurgency manualFM 3-24and the military-anthropology complex
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |