The New Political Economy of Geographical Intelligence
| Autor: | Susan M. Roberts, Jeremy W. Crampton, Ate Poorthuis |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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| Zdroj: | Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 104:196-214 |
| ISSN: | 1467-8306 0004-5608 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00045608.2013.843436 |
| Popis: | A troubling new political economy of geographical intelligence has emerged in the United States over the last two decades. The contours of this new political economy are difficult to identify due to official policies keeping much relevant information secret. The U.S. intelligence community increasingly relies on private corporations, working as contractors, to undertake intelligence work, including geographical intelligence (formally known as GEOINT). In this article we first describe the geography intelligence “contracting nexus” consisting of tens of thousands of companies (including those in the geographical information systems and mapping sector), universities and nonprofits receiving Department of Defense and intelligence agency funding. Second, we discuss the “knowledge nexus” to conceptualize how geographical knowledge figures in current U.S. intelligence efforts, themselves part of the U.S. war on terror and counterinsurgency (COIN). To analyze the contracting nexus we compiled and examined extens... |
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