The academic and political debate on HTS seems to be put in a post-colonial context as a new form of mixing of science and ideology. HTS became thus a field of intellectual and political polemics between certain groups of researches. ![]() The program initiated by US Army back in 2006 called Human Terrain System started a wide spread debate on ethical issues regarding doing ethnographic fieldwork in a militarized landscape. Cultural anthropology, which shared a similar dilemma in the formative period of its own history provides us today with one of the most controversial examples in this matter. This is being implemented in many cases by the geopolitical context of 9/11 and the fall of former centers of power (end of the Cold War). ![]() ![]() The contemporary warfare seems to have great influence on the way social sciences position themselves within the socio-political contexts of today.
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