Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Pinelandia by Nomi Stone Poems included in this book were previously published in Kill Class, Tupelo Press, February, 2019. Used by permission of the publisher. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Across the pine forests and deserts of America, there are mock Middle Eastern villages, mostly hidden from public view. Containing mosques, restaurants, street signs, graffiti in Arabic, and Iraqi role-players, these villages serve as military training sites for cultural literacy and special operations, both seen as crucial to victory in the Global War on Terror. In her gripping and highly original ethnography, anthropologist Nomi Stone explores US military predeployment training exercises and the lifeworlds of the Iraqi role-players employed within the mock villages, as they act out to mourn, bargain, and die like the wartime adversary or ally. Spanning fieldwork across the United States and Jordan, Pinelandia traces the devastating consequences of a military project that seeks to turn human beings into wartime technologies recruited to translate, mediate, and collaborate. Theorizing and enacting a field poetics, this work enlarges the ethnographic project into new cross-disciplinary worlds. Pinelandia is a political phenomenology of American empire and Iraq in the twenty-first century. Flap "Welcome to Pinelandia-- the historic training ground for US imperialism-- where the violent ambitions of empire are rehearsed daily. Stone maps the fantasies and poetics supporting US militarism today -- an astonishingly original book."--Joseph Masco, author of The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making "This is an extraordinarily original, timely, and powerful book. It traces the shifting lines of alliance and enmity that comprise the realities of Iraq in the days immediately following the American occupation in 2003 and through the subsequent years of disillusionment and renewed divisions. Nomi Stone does this in a highly inventive and unexpected way through ethnographic accounts crafted from the domestic landscapes of US military predeployment training. While remaining ostensibly safe within the homeland, Stones account nonetheless manages to convey the profound brutality of militarism within as well as beyond US borders."--Lucy Suchman, Professor Emerita, Anthropology of Science and Technology, Lancaster University Author Biography Nomi Stone is an award-winning anthropologist and poet. An Assistant Professor of Poetry at the University of Texas, Dallas, she was most recently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology at Princeton. She is author of two ethnographic collections of poetry, Strangers Notebook and Kill Class, and her poems appear in The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Nation, and widely elsewhere. Table of Contents Contents Acknowledgments [Field Poem] Introduction: The Pins Fall through the Pines [Field Poem] 1. The Making of Human Technology [Field Poem] 2. The Iraq Warscape and the Cultural Turn [Field Poem] 3. The Theaters of War [Field Poem] 4. Left and Right Limits [Field Poem] 5. Affective Maneuvers [Field Poem] 6. Becoming Human Technology [Field Poem] Conclusion: The Pins Fall through the Pines [Field Poem] Epilogue: Field Poetry Notes Bibliography Index Review "[Pinelandia] is a defining epilogue that will speak on multiple levels to established academics, multi-modal ethnographers, and emerging anthropologists seeking to shape (or more rigorously reinforce) the role of poetry both in the generation of knowledge as well as in the expression of ethno-encounters." * Anthro Book Forum * Details ISBN0520344375 Author Nomi Stone Short Title Pinelandia Publisher University of California Press Series Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 0520344375 ISBN-13 9780520344372 Format Paperback Subtitle An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire Series Number 8 Imprint University of California Press Place of Publication Berkerley Country of Publication United States Publication Date 2022-10-11 NZ Release Date 2022-10-11 US Release Date 2022-10-11 UK Release Date 2022-10-11 Pages 308 DEWEY 355.370973 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2022-11-29 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. SECURE PAYMENT Peace of mind by paying through PayPal and eBay Buyer Protection TheNile_Item_ID:139331834;
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