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Counterinsurgency 4 - Anthropologists Make War

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In the last episode, we focused on the brutality of the Thai para-political, and para-military apparatuses, generally speaking, we can call that the stick. Today we will also be looking more deeply into the carrot of counterinsurgency. That is to say, the social services, state welfare and rural development infrastructure programs that were written by western academics to be dangled in one hand, while the barbarity of the stick was to be wielded in the other. 

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All music we used can be found in this playlist. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3E6imAcIOd2AjxZ3wgE1AA?si=3f0ce435ee4f4e77