The revelation that the U.S. Department of Defense had hired anthropologists for its Human Terrain System project assisting its operations in Afghanistan and Iraq caused an uproar that has obscured the participation of sociologists in similar Pentagon-funded projects. As the contributors to "Sociology and Empire" show, such affiliations are not new. Sociologists have been active as advisers, theorists, and analysts of Western imperialism for more than a century.
The collection has a threefold agenda: to trace an intellectual history of sociology as it pertains to empire; to offer empirical...
The revelation that the U.S. Department of Defense had hired anthropologists for its Human Terrain System project assisting its operations in Afghanis...