Symbolic power in the US Government Counterinsurgency Guide: US security, (non-) combatant civilians, and the refugee-in-place
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DOI: 10.1177/0921374020935142
Abstract: Framed by symbolic power as a theory of performance, this essay takes as its subject the state’s use of performance transience for oppressive ends. For Pierre Bourdieu, the symbolic field is about group misrecognition of… read more here.
Keywords: non combatant; counterinsurgency guide; power; government counterinsurgency ... See more keywords