... This chapter tracks patterns of informal settlement through the late 1980s; it also addresses the state’s apparatus of counterinsurgency, which was designed with a view to bringing unregulated urbanization under control. As increasing numbers of illegal migrants settled permanently on the edges...

... This chapter traces the role of nativist discourse in the anti-Communist campaigns waged by the Nationalist military in the early 1930s. Focusing on training materials produced by the Blue Shirts, as well as magazines published for the edification and enjoyment of counterinsurgency soldiers...

... Anthropologically informed counterinsurgency programs examined in this chapter include the role of the Human Relations Area File in subcontracting army area handbooks, and projects designed to compile declassified reports that were later were modified and rewritten as classified documents...

...Archives and Counterinsurgency in Cold War Guatemala ...

... In recent years much has been written about the revival of counterinsurgency as the preferred strategy of the U.S.-led forces in the “global war on terror.” Such a strategy necessarily requires knowledge of the local languages and cultures. This chapter focuses on the U.S. military’s attempts...

... relationships to each other. It draws attention to the multitude of contemporary claims and concerns that shape the ongoing making and unmaking of class. memory radical insecurity counterinsurgency ...