For most commentators, 'new war' is 'mindless' mass action. It has become a behavioural problem. Like a disease, the risk of infection must be contained. This book takes a different approach. Anthropologists who have lived with and through the wars they describe here reflect a paradoxical assumption that to understand war we must deny it a special status. Rather than quarantine war and leave it to security specialists they attempt to grasp its character as but one among many phases or aspects of social reality, organised by social agents, made through social action. All war is long-term...
For most commentators, 'new war' is 'mindless' mass action. It has become a behavioural problem. Like a disease, the risk of infection must be contain...
Spin doctors are seldom out of the news for long. But who really knows what spin is, or what spin doctors do? Paul Richards shows that spin doctoring is a new phrase to describe a very old practice.
Spin doctors are seldom out of the news for long. But who really knows what spin is, or what spin doctors do? Paul Richards shows that spin doctoring ...
