Sociology and Empire: The Imperial Entanglements of a Discipline
George Steinmetz
ISBN: | 9780822352587 |
Publisher: | Duke University Press |
Published: | 25 July, 2013 |
Format: | Hardback |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
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Sociology and Empire: The Imperial Entanglements of a Discipline
George Steinmetz
The revelation that the U.S. Department of Defense had hired anthropologists for its Human Terrain System project-assisting its operations in Afghanistan and Iraq-caused an uproar that has obscured the participation of sociologists in similar Pentagon-funded projects. As the contributors to Sociology and Empire show, such affiliations are not new. Sociologists have been active as advisers, theorists, and analysts of Western imperialism for more than a century. The collection has a threefold agen
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