Background The law enforcement officer profession requires performance of arduous
occupational tasks while carrying an external load, consisting of, at minimum, a chest rig, a …

Though we are the most wasteful people in the history of the world, very few of us know what
becomes of our waste. In Waste Away, Joshua O. Reno reveals how North Americans have …

Under the banner of martial empiricism, we advance a distinctive set of theoretical and
methodological commitments for the study of war. Previous efforts to wrestle with this most …

Pain, despite being an elemental bodily experience and the most common reason for
seeking medical care, occupies a place of profound ontological and moral uncertainty in US …

The term 'resilience'has grown in its usage across a range of disciplines and practices. The
US military and the British armed forces have typified this increasing use of 'resilience'in …

The notion of “leaky” female bodies has long rationalized the exclusion of women from
military service. Yet, in an attempt to bolster enlistments by appealing to women, the …

This review offers new perspectives on the anthropology of injuries and wounds. It maps
how theories, methods, and ethnographic sensibilities converge on wounds, on the act of …

World War III has yet to happen, and yet material evidence of this conflict is strewn
everywhere: resting at the bottom of the ocean, rusting in deserts, and floating in near-Earth …

Despite extensive criticisms of mass surveillance and mobilization by civil liberties and
digital rights activists, surveillance has paradoxically been extended and legalized in the …

This essay describes a critical approach to the study of military institutions through
ethnographic attention to the predicaments of survival, endurance and the management of …