American Ethnologist

Abu Ghraib, the security apparatus, and the performativity of power
BY STEVEN C. CATON and BERNARDO ZACKA

In this essay, the authors attempt to understand the acts of detainee abuse that took place at Abu Ghraib from the standpoint of apparatuses of power. Ever since Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), political theorists have implicitly relied on a Weberian bureaucratic ideal type to think about questions of responsibility and power in the context of organizations. The authors of this article seek to offer an alternative conception of the bureaucratic logic in place in the Iraqi prison.

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The road: An ethnography of the Albanian–Greek cross-border motorway
DIMITRIS DALAKOGLOU

Chronic disaster syndrome: Displacement, disaster capitalism, and the eviction of the poor from New Orleans
VINCANNE ADAMS, TASLIM VAN HATTUM, DIANA ENGLISH

Man enough to let my wife support me: How changing models of career and gender are reshaping the experience of unemployment
CARRIE M. LANE

What's Burmese about Burmese rap? Why some expressive forms go global
WARD KEELER

The optimal sacrifice: A study of voluntary death among the Siberian Chukchi
RANE WILLERSLEV

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