Carolyn Nordstrom
Principle areas of interest: Political violence and peace in the contemporary world, cyber crime/war, transnational extra-legal economies, globalization, gender, contemporary theory. Extensive on-site fieldwork in war zones and along extra-legal economic routes worldwide, with long-term interests in Southern Africa and South Asia.
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In addition to scores of scholarly articles, books include: Cyber Shadows: Power, Crime, and Hacking Everyone; Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary World; Shadows of War: Violence, Power, and International Profiteering in the 21st Century; A Different Kind of War Story; edited books include: Fieldwork Under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Survival and The Paths to Domination, Resistance and Terror.
Awards: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, Reinhold Niebuhr Award for life dedication to writings exemplifying social justice, three teaching awards, 2008 Society for Economic Anthropology book award.
Publications:
In addition to scores of scholarly articles, books include: Cyber Shadows: Power, Crime, and Hacking Everyone; Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary World; Shadows of War: Violence, Power, and International Profiteering in the 21st Century; A Different Kind of War Story; edited books include: Fieldwork Under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Survival and The Paths to Domination, Resistance and Terror.
Awards: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, Reinhold Niebuhr Award for life dedication to writings exemplifying social justice, three teaching awards, 2008 Society for Economic Anthropology book award.
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A 12 year old inspired this book when, after being asked about criminal hacking, said “The Chaos is coming” – and asked why adults were doing nothing.
They can hack everything. Financial systems, medical technology, national infrastructure, biological processes, personhood.
Anthropologist Carolyn Nordstrom and Lisa Carlson, student of the digital generation, explore the impact on societies and citizens. How is this changing crime? Economics and sovereignty? Daily life?
The authors track these questions internationally through hacker conferences; across Darknets, Botnets, and new attack vectors; and in scores of interviews with leading experts, the “cyber literati.” Answers emerge at the junctures of law and outlaw, in the spaces between control, creativity, and chaos – in the shadowlands where economies are forged and destroyed, wars fought, power redefined, and cultures invented. The impossible is eroding.
Cyber Shadows is a tour de horizon of the digital world’s dark places, the threats and innovations in cybercrime, espionage, and surveillance – and new attacks moving beyond identity theft to hacking our behavioral patterns, brains, and DNA to buy and sell as lucrative business. The implications are staggering: from coercion to the end of the sovereign self. Emerging solutions “illuminating the shadows” include conversations among the global citizenry, individual initiative and creative approaches to transparency, self and power.