...Vicente L. Rafael Much has been written about the vicissitudes of counterinsurgency as a crucial complement to counterterrorism in the US occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan since 2005. Such a strategy necessarily depends on the mastery of local languages by way of translation. This essay focuses...

...Laleh Khalili This essay examines the instrumentalization of emotions and affect—especially of happiness—in evaluating the outcome of counterinsurgencies. Traditionally, metrics and statistics have been utilized as the main means of measuring the achievement of military goals. However, given...

...Inderpal Grewal; Dipin Kaur; Sasha Sabherwal Abstract This article examines the shifting nature of patriarchy and gender among Sikhs in Indian Punjab through the 1980s and into the 1990s in relation to the Indian state's counterinsurgent policies and practices. The authors’ research reveals...

...Mangalika de Silva This inquiry concerns the majoritarian right governing Sri Lanka instantiated through state counterinsurgency, extrajudicial violence, and symbiotic ideologies of postwar “reconciliation” and political disaffection. Majoritarian right is a predicative apparatus instating both...

... possibilities. The online project Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760–1761 , which interprets the spatial history of the greatest slave insurrection in the eighteenth-century British Empire, offers a telling example. The map suggests an argument about the strategies of the rebels and the tactics of counterinsurgency...

... of the underdeveloped global South. The “revolution in military affairs” is only the latest rationale for the U.S. permanent war economy, which has survived constant changes in management. The obsessive turn toward the doctrine of counterinsurgency...

..., describes SEAS as “behavior anticipation and shaping,” a digital version of the classic counterinsurgency strategy of winning hearts and minds.4 JFCOM’s Joint Futures Laboratory employed SEAS in the Urban Resolve war game to model...

... universal. 5 The essays in this issue track the place of difference in the making of, and resistance to, security logics and modes of rule. From everyday policing to counterinsurgency and drone warfare, we approach “security” as a logic of power. We understand governance related to security to mean...

... dictatorships sponsored and supported by the United States at the height of its liberalism. Brutal US-led counterinsurgency military and paramilitary campaigns conducted in the name of regional security during the Cold War were clearly extensions of the genocidal, tortuous, and mutilating wars that served...

..., and counterinsurgent groups across the landscape of Jamaica. For the viewer, the animated tracer lines appear on the map of Jamaica like the fat lines of a marker on a football coach’s whiteboard, plotting directional movement with strategic intent— red...

... Price, Weaponizing Anthropology . 55 González, American Counterinsurgency ; González, Militarizing Culture . 56 Associated Press, “Highlights”; “N.Y.P.D. Secret: Weekly MSA Report,” 22 November 2006, hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/documents/nypd-msa-report.pdf (accessed 10...

... knowledge, offering a highly seductive, militarized grid through which to interpret the world. Though the contemporary scene shows striking parallels with the neocolonialism, counterinsurgency, and “dirty wars” of the Cold War era, the current proliferation of war...

... scholars like Laleh Khalili who have turned to the role of emotions—outrage and happiness, respectively—in counterinsurgencies waged by liberal democracies, to scrutinize the role that “emotion management” plays in the security state's arsenal. 24 While this scholarship looks at the ways in which states...

... shifting. Anticommunist counterinsurgency and third-world proxy wars, for example, treated America’s enemy as secularized religious fanatics, at once godless communists and totalitarian dogmatists. They produced the Cold War as a certain kind of globalized race war drawing heavily on forms of racialized...

... of various actors within them. The daily affective labor of “winning hearts and minds” is in tension with the explicitly violent domain of their work: as AMISOM troops are increasingly tasked with counterinsurgency operations, relationships with the Somali population have deteriorated, leading to rising...

... in Jamaica between 1760 and 1761. Brown’s map represents the course of the rebellion over eighteen months as enslaved rebels rose up across the island. Ultimately, over five hundred of these reb- els were executed and similar numbers exiled from Jamaica as part of the British counterinsurgency...

... to no books. Santa Rita Jail is also an incubator for the state's counterinsurgent logics meant to criminalize and intervene in solidarity networks. Yet, we study. Our ways of knowing and our very survival open up cracks in the lockdown, fissures in the structure. Packed in together, some of us coalesce...

... repression through violence, 25 espionage, 26 and counterinsurgency techniques. 27 What unites such diverse coalitions is the reaction against the occupation of space (both earthly and atmospheric) and of the future provoked by the relentless extraction and burning of fossil fuels...

... is revealed by a philosophy of history situating the birth of biopolitics in slavery) is the way in which sexual and reproductive insurgency and counterinsurgency function as the motor of history. Put differently, she fails to see that human reproduction...

... vicious counterinsurgency that mainstream disciplines and their management allies deploy against any challenge to their foundational power. Leicester in particular, however, experienced much more high-profile and deliberate assault in the last few years targeting many critical scholars and trade union...