1932

Abstract

This article reviews recent ethnographies of war that shed light on interconnected states of security at home, international military interventions, and hybrid or rhizomic warfare doctrines. I suggest the notion of hybrid peace to explore global implications of these ethnographic perspectives and to ask what it means to inhabit spaces that are constituted by such hybrid warfare. I argue for the usefulness of Schmitt's “nomos of the earth” and his theory of the partisan to conceptualize this condition and bring together different approaches to warfare.

[Erratum, Closure]

An erratum has been published for this article:
Erratum: Hybrid Peace: Ethnographies of War
Loading

Article metrics loading...

/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102317-050139
2018-10-21
2024-04-25
Loading full text...

Full text loading...

/deliver/fulltext/anthro/47/1/annurev-anthro-102317-050139.html?itemId=/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102317-050139&mimeType=html&fmt=ahah

Literature Cited

  1. Agamben G. 2005. State of Exception Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press
  2. Agamben G. 2015. Stasis: Civil War as a Political Paradigm Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press
  3. Armitage D. 2017. Civil War: A History in Ideas New York: Alfred A. Knopf
  4. Asad T. 2007. On Suicide Bombing New York: Columbia Univ. Press
  5. Beck TK. 2012. The Normality of Civil War: Armed Groups and Everyday Life in Angola Frankfurt, Ger.: Campus Verlag
  6. Ben-Ari E. 1998. Mastering Soldiers: Conflict, Emotions, and the Enemy in an Israeli Military Unit Oxford, UK: Berghahn Books
  7. Besteman C. 2017. Experimenting in Somalia: the new security empire. Anthropol. Theory 17:3404–20
    [Google Scholar]
  8. Bolten C. 2012. “We have been sensitized”: ex-combatants, marginalization, and youth in postwar Sierra Leone. Am. Anthropol. 114:3496–508
    [Google Scholar]
  9. Bratton BH. 2015. The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
  10. Burbank J. 1995. Lenin and the law in revolutionary Russia. Slav. Rev. 54:123–44
    [Google Scholar]
  11. Can Ş 2017. The Syrian Civil War, sectarianism and political change at the Turkish-Syrian border. Soc. Anthropol. 25:2174–89
    [Google Scholar]
  12. Coulter C. 2015. Bush Wives and Girl Soldiers: Women's Lives through War and Peace in Sierra Leone Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press
  13. Cuomo SA, Donlon BJ 2008. Training a “hybrid’ warrior at the infantry officer course. Small Wars J. Blog Jan. http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/training-a-hybrid-warrior-at-the-infantry-officer-course
    [Google Scholar]
  14. Deleuze G, Guattari F 1987. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia Minneapolis: Univ. Minn. Press
  15. Dominguez VR. 1989. People as Subject, People as Object: Selfhood and Peoplehood in Contemporary Israel Madison: Univ. Wisc. Press
  16. Fawaz M, Bou Akar H 2012. Practicing (in)security in the City. City Soc 24:2105–9
    [Google Scholar]
  17. Ferme MC. 2001. The Underneath of Things: Violence, History, and the Everyday in Sierra Leone Berkeley: Univ. Calif. Press
  18. Finnström S. 2008. Living with Bad Surroundings: War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press
  19. Foucault M. 2003. “Society Must Be Defended”: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975–1976 New York: Picador
    [Google Scholar]
  20. Galli C. 2010. Political Spaces and Global War Minneapolis: Univ. Minn. Press
  21. Gates RM. 2009. A balanced strategy: reprogramming the Pentagon for a new age. Foreign Aff 88:128–40
    [Google Scholar]
  22. Glück Z, Low S 2017. A sociospatial framework for the anthropology of security. Anthropol. Theory 17:3281–96
    [Google Scholar]
  23. Goldstein DM. 2010. Toward a critical anthropology of security. Curr. Anthropol. 51:4487–517
    [Google Scholar]
  24. González RJ. 2009. American Counterinsurgency: Human Science and the Human Terrain Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press
  25. Gusterson H. 2016. Drone: Remote Control Warfare Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
  26. Hardt M, Negri A 2000. Empire Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press
  27. Hermez H. 2012. ‘The war is going to ignite’: on the anticipation of violence in Lebanon. PoLAR 35:2327–44
    [Google Scholar]
  28. Hobsbawm E. 1994. Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991 London/New York: Viking: Penguin
  29. Hoffman D. 2003. Frontline anthropology: research in a time of war. Anthropol. Today 19:39–12
    [Google Scholar]
  30. Hoffman D. 2011a. Violence, just in time: war and work in contemporary West Africa. Cult. Anthropol. 26:134–57
    [Google Scholar]
  31. Hoffman D. 2011b. The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press
  32. Judd E. 2006. War and peace. Anthropologica 48:13–6
    [Google Scholar]
  33. Kalinin I. 2017. ‘Post-socialist realism’: postmodern in form and conservative in content, and vice versa Paper presented at the 2nd Annual Forum of the 1917/2017: Disciplinary Regimes of Truth, Sch. Adv. Stud., Univ Tyumen, Russ.:
  34. Keen D. 2005. Conflict and Collusion in Sierra Leone New York: Palgrave
  35. Kilcullen D. 2009. The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One London: Hurst
  36. Klimenko S. 2015. Teoriia i praktika vedeniia gibridnykh voin. Zarubezhnoe Voennoe Obozrenie 5:109–12
    [Google Scholar]
  37. Kuntsman A, Stein RL 2015. Digital Militarism: Israel's Occupation in the Social Media Age Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press
  38. Kwon H. 2010. The Other Cold War New York: Columbia Univ. Press
  39. Lubkemann SC. 2010. Culture in Chaos: An Anthropology of the Social Condition in War Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press
  40. Lutz CA. 2002. Homefront: A Military City and the American Twentieth Century Boston: Beacon
  41. Lutz CA. 2009. Anthropology in an era of permanent war. Anthropologica 51:2367–79
    [Google Scholar]
  42. Maček I. 2009. Sarajevo Under Siege: Anthropology in Wartime Philadelphia: Univ. Pa. Press
  43. Masco J. 2014. The Theater of Operations: National Security Affect from the Cold War to the War on Terror Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press
  44. McCuen JJ. 2008. Hybrid wars. Mil. Rev. 2008:March–April107–13
    [Google Scholar]
  45. Murphy WP. 2003. Military patrimonialism and child soldier clientalism in the Liberian and Sierra Leonean civil wars. Afr. Stud. Rev. 46:261–87
    [Google Scholar]
  46. Ochs J. 2011. Security and Suspicion: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel Philadelphia: Univ. Pa. Press
  47. Patrikarakos D. 2017. War in 140 Characters: How Social Media Is Reshaping Conflict in the Twenty-First Century New York: Basic Books
  48. Pettigrew J. 2013. Maoists at the Hearth: Everyday Life in Nepal's Civil War Philadelphia: Univ. Pa. Press
  49. Pretorius J. 2008. The security imaginary: explaining military isomorphism. Secur. Dialogue 39:199–120
    [Google Scholar]
  50. Reyna SP. 2016. Deadly Contradictions: The New American Empire and Global Warring Oxford, UK: Berghahn Books
  51. Robben ACGM 2011. Iraq at a Distance: What Anthropologists Can Teach Us About the War Philadelphia: Univ. Pa. Press
  52. Roberto J. 2008. Human terrain: past, present, and future applications. Anthropol. Today 24:21–26
    [Google Scholar]
  53. Roitman J. 2005. The garrison-entrepôt: a mode of governing in the Chad basin. Global Assemblages, Anthropological Problems A Ong, SJ Collier 417–36 Oxford, UK: Blackwell
    [Google Scholar]
  54. Rosen DM. 2007. Child soldiers, international humanitarian law, and the globalization of childhood. Am. Anthropol. 109:2296–306
    [Google Scholar]
  55. Scheper-Hughes N, Bourgois PI 2003. Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology Oxford, UK: Blackwell
  56. Schmitt C. 2006. The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of the Jus Publicum Europaeum New York: Telos
  57. Schmitt C. 2007. Theory of the Partisan: Intermediate Commentary on the Concept of the Political New York: Telos Press Pub
  58. Waterston A 2008. An Anthropology of War: Views From the Frontline Oxford, UK: Berghahn Books
  59. Weizman E. 2007. Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation London: Verso
/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102317-050139
Loading
  • Article Type: Review Article
This is a required field
Please enter a valid email address
Approval was a Success
Invalid data
An Error Occurred
Approval was partially successful, following selected items could not be processed due to error