| ID | 145969 |
| Title Proper | W(h)ither the social? on the imperial episteme and economy of force |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Go, Julian |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Patricia Owens’s remarkable Economy of Force (2015) traces the counterinsurgency strategies used by the British and US empires from Malaya to Afghanistan. If this were all the book was about, though, it would not be so remarkable. What makes it remarkable is that, more than a history of postwar counterinsurgencies, Economy of Force directs our attention to two deeper relationships that have gone unnoticed in existing scholarship. The first is the relationship between counterinsurgency campaigns and uniquely social modes of thought. Counterinsurgency campaigns deployed social theory both to explain why insurgents rebelled and in their efforts to prevent it. |
| `In' analytical Note | Security Dialogue Vol. 47, No.3; Jun 2016: p.201-207 |
| Journal Source | Security Dialogue Vol: 47 No 3 |
| Key Words | Economy of Force ; Imperial Episteme |