ideology

securityscape

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

political anthropologist

university professor

George Washington University

innovator in the field of

political anthropology

political national security

Network of Concerned Anthropologists

anthropologist

anthropology

Nuclear Rites

is a the way of legitimating domination by constructing political ideas, institutions, and behavior which make the structures of the dominant and the interests of the elites appear natural and universally shared, thus obscuring connections between different political antagonisms that might spark revolutionary situations.

Following Anthony Giddens (1979), I define ideology as a way of constructing political ideas, institutions, and behavior which (I) makes the political structures and institutions created by dominant social groups, classes, and nations appear to be naturally given and inescapable rather than socially constructed... (2)presents the interests of elites as if they were universally shared... (3) obscures the connections between different social and political antagonisms so as to inhibit massive, binary confrontations (i.e., revolutionary situations)... and (4) legitimates domination. (Gusterson 1999: 115)

is the asymmetrical distributions of weaponry, military force, and military-scientific resources among nation-states and the local and global imaginaries of identity, power, and vulnerability that accompany these distributions.

asymmetrical distributions of weaponry, military force, and military-scientific resources among nation-states and the local and global imaginaries of identity, power, and vulnerability that accompany these distributions' (Gusterson 2004:166).

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