Hutton Honors College
— Indiana University
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Waging (and Financing) Modern Wars: From Smart Phones to Smuggling to ...
An undergraduate discussion supper with
Anthropologist
Carolyn Nordstrom will be on campus to participate in the Framing the Global Research and Publication Project, a five-year initiative of the IU Center for the Study of Global Change and the IU Press. She will give a public lecture, "Global Fractures, Cyber-Sovereignty, and Wild-Card Powers: Windows on the World's Tomorrows," on Thursday, Jan. 26, 5-6:30 p.m., in the Oak Room of the Indiana Memorial Union. For more information on her lecture and the project visit http://www.indiana.edu/~global/framing/.
SIGN-UP INFO: If you are interested in this undergraduate event, please
e-mail
Anna Duquaine (aduquain@indiana.edu), indicating you wish to sign up for
the "Waging Wars" program and include your name, e-mail address, year in
school,
and field(s) of study. Space is limited so we will let you know by
e-mail if a space was available when you replied.
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Anthropologist Carolyn Nordstrom has seen the changes in how war can be
waged and financed and by whom. We live in a time when major attacks
can be launched by non-governmental groups and individuals can use new
technologies to shut down the electric grid and hack cyber sites or to
call others to the streets and squares. She has researched the shadowy
worlds of diamond, drug, and arms smuggling; war profiteering; piracy;
and other transnational crimes. "I have studied the ways in which
people gain the necessities to wage war and create peace, and how people
pay for these services," she has said. "Drugs, precious gems, human
labor and sex are routinely used in international black markets to
purchase everything from guns and computer-based weapons systems to
antibiotics and food." Her books include Global Outlaws: Crime,
Money,
and Power in the Contemporary World, Shadows of War: Violence, Power,
International Profiteering in the 21st Century, and A Different Kind of
War Story, and The Paths to Domination, Resistance, and
Terror.
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more information, visit
