Full Description
As we move deeper into the twenty-first century, power, lethal force, and injustice continue to explode violently into war, and the prospects for lasting peace look even bleaker. The horrors of modern warfare - the death, dehumanization, and destruction of social and material infrastructures - have done little to bring an end to armed conflict.
In this volume, leading chroniclers of war provide thoughtful and powerful essays that reflect on their ethnographic work at the frontlines. The contributors recount not only what they have seen and heard in war zones but also what is being read, studied, analyzed and remembered in such diverse locations as Colombia and Guatemala, Israel and Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Haiti. In detailed reports from the field, they reflect on the important issue of "accountability" and offer explanations to discern causes, patterns, and practices of war. Through this unique lens, the contributors provide the insight and analysis needed for a deeper understanding of one of the greatest issues of our times.
Contributors:
Avram Bornstein, Paul E. Farmer, R. Brian Ferguson, Lesley Gill, Beatriz Manz, Carolyn Nordstrom, Stephen Reyna, Jose N. Vasquez
Contents
Prelude: An Accountability, Written in the Year 2108
Carolyn Nordstrom
Introduction: On War and Accountability
Alisse Waterston
Chapter 1. Ten Points on War
R. Brian Ferguson
Chapter 2. Global Warring Today: "Maybe Somebody Needs to Explain"
Stephen Reyna
Chapter 3. Global Fractures
Carolyn Nordstrom
Chapter 4. Seeing Green: Visual Technology, Virtual Reality, and the Experience of War
Jose N. Vasquez
Chapter 5. Military Occupation as Carceral Society: Prisons, Checkpoints, and Walls in the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle
Avram Bornstein
Chapter 6. War and Peace in Colombia
Lesley Gill
Chapter 7. The Continuum of Violence in Post-war Guatemala
Beatriz Manz
Chapter 8. Mother Courage and the Future of War
Paul E. Farmer
Notes on contributors
Bibliography
Index
