Militarising - and marginalising? - African Studies USA

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Title:	Militarising - and marginalising? - African Studies USA
Authors:	Martin, William G. McQuade, Brendan Innis
Year:	2014
Periodical:	Review of African Political Economy (ISSN 0305-6244)
Volume:	41
Issue:	141
Pages:	441-457
Language:	English
Geographic term:	United States
Subjects:	African studies financing armed forces research CIA
External link:	https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2014.905906
Abstract:	The militarisation of US-African relations has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Left largely unexplored, however, is the question of how this process has involved US-based scholars. This essay examines this process with particular attention to the rapid expansion of military and intelligence research on and in Africa, and, in particular, military and intelligence funding of US Africanists' research including at the major African Studies centres. While the classification of much federal research limits conclusions, it is apparent that military and intelligence priorities are coming to significantly shape the present and future of much research and training. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract]