American Anthropological Association

The Society for Applied Anthropology’s recent meeting sessions on “Scholars, Security and Citizenship” (chaired by Laura McNamara) are now available as podcasts. Part I includes:

• Laura McNamara (Sandia Nat’l Labs): Scholars, Security and Citizenship
• Maren Tomforde (German Armed Forces & Command Coll-Hamburg): Should, Must, or Must Not Anthropologists Cooperate with the Armed Forces?: Ethical Issues and the German Bundeswehr
• Eyal Ben-Ari (Hebrew U): Anthropology, Research and State Violence: Some Observations from an Israeli Anthropologist
• Clementine Fujimura (US Naval Academy): “Motivated” and Other Challenges for the Military Anthropologist
• David Price (St. Martin’s U): Anthropology’s Third Rail: Counterinsurgency, Vietnam, Thailand, and the Political Uses of Militarized Anthropology
• Douglas P Fry (Åbo Akad U, U Arizona): Anthropology in the Name of Security

Part II includes:

• Laura McNamara (Sandia Nat’l Labs): Culture, Torture, Interrogation, and the Global War on Terrorism
• R Brian Ferguson  (U Rutgers-Newark): The Challenge of Security Anthropology
• Robert A Rubinstein (Syracuse U): Ethics, Engagement and Experience: Anthropological Excursions in Culture and the Military
• Anne Irwin (U Calgary): Military Ethnography and Embedded Journalism: Parallels, Intersections and Disjuncture
• Danny Hoffman (UW-Seattle): The Sub-Contractor: Counterinsurgency, Militias and the New Common Ground in Social and Military Science

Additional sessions available as podcasts include “Collaboration, Community and Ethics,” “Without Footnotes: Writing Creative Ethnography,” “Professional and Academic Collaboration,” “Studies of HIV and STIs in the Western Hemisphere” and more. Thanks to Jen Cardew and the SfAA podcast team.

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