Gill / Joseph / Rosenberg The School of the Americas

Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8600-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 300 Seiten

Reihe: American Encounters/Global Interactions

Transnational ethnography and history of the School of the Americas, analyzing the military, peasant, and activist cultures that are linked by this institution.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gill, Lesley

Joseph, Gilbert M.

Rosenberg, Emily S.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Militär- und Verteidigungstechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations vii

Acknowledgments ix

Prologue: The Teflon Assassin xiii

Introduction: The Military, Political Violence, and Impunity 1

1. Georgia Not on Their Minds 23

2. De-Mining Humanitarianism 43

3. Foot Soldiers of the U.S. Empire 59

4. Pathways to Power 90

5. Strategic Alliances 110

6. Human Wrongs and Rights 137

7. Disordering the Andes 163

8. Targeting the " School of Assassins" 198

Conclusion: The School of the Americas 233

Notes 245

References Cited 259

Index 271

Über Autor(innen)

Lesley Gill is Professor of Anthropology and Department Chair, Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Teetering on the Rim: Global Restructuring, Daily Life, and the Armed Retreat of the Bolivian State; Precarious Dependencies: Gender, Class, and Domestic Service in Bolivia; and Peasants, Entrepreneurs, and Social Change: Frontier Development in Lowland Bolivia.