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Pre-Internet Networked Operations for American Behavioral Scientist (N/A)

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Event Date: 2025-03-01 Abstract Due: 2025-03-01

American Behavioral Scientist (ABS), is a peer-reviewed journal and published fourteen times a year. It provides in-depth perspectives on intriguing contemporary topics throughout the social and behavioral sciences. Each issue is guest edited. For more information about American Behavioral Scientist see https://journals.sagepub.com/home/abs

This survey focuses on military networked operations that linked and fueled certain economic policies, ways of life, and worldviews that are normalized today (neoliberalism, various polarizations, surveillance and datafication, etc.). Research touches on many aspects of the pre-history of the Internet, during the Cold War, and involves a variety of contexts. We are surveying 1960-70s military operations including but not limited to, COINTELPRO (US); CHAOS (US); CORDS & Phoenix (Vietnam); Condor (in South America); ORDEN (El Salvador); Jakarta (Indonesia) and OBAN (Brazil) for a theme issue of American Behavioral Scientist entitled, "Pre-Internet Networked Operations". Some authors are writing about some of these operations but essays about ORDEN in El Salvador, CORDS/PHOENIX/PHUNG HOANG in Vietnam, Jakarta in Indonessia, Condor in South America, CHAOS and COINTELPRO in the US, are invited to expand the survey.

These operations networked societies prior to the advent of the Internet. Potential areas of focus include: the communication equipment that supported these operations, from how evident or non-evident they were; to their staffing and hardware; the use and purpose of the operations; the operations' contributions to social and financial inequality and political polarization in the populations they monitored; and works that pertain to the theoretical or methodological approaches applied to the findings.

While in depth analysis is welcome, authors should prioritize making the operations easier to understand and compare with other operations if possible. This may represent the first time these networked operations have been described and compared in one source, which will be a helpful, singular, historical-comparative, resource for media scholars, media users and social scientists worldwide. We are especially interested in information on the following: what role interactive computers and non-evident, wireless networks (e.g., radios, satellite communications, sonar, radar, microwave networks along the railroads, microwave towers, listening posts, teletype machines) played in the program; who used the networks and for what purpose; how visible these communication systems were to the civilian population; and whether civilians knew they were being surveilled; and in general terms, how did the program contrbute to local financial inequality and political polarization.

Article abstracts are invited for a theme issue of American Behavioral Scientist entitled:"Pre-Internet Networked Operations" by lead editor Noel Packard PhD;ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000- 0001-6589-3362

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Dr. Bradley Simpson, Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies at University of Connecticut (history.uconn.edu/person/bradley-simpson) .He is author of Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968 (Stanford 2008) which chronicles how U.S. anti-Communist assistance in Indonesia helped bend the government and civilian population towards neoliberal economic policies while neutralizing most of the members of the Indonesian Communist Party. He is re-visiting, and re-thinking, the history, political and legal ramifications of what US foreign relations and international politics refer to as self-determination of countries and has three books in progress. They are entitled, 'The First Right: Self-Determination and the Transformation of post-1941 International Relations'; Indonesia's New Order and the U.S. , and the World Community, 1966-1998 and The Routledge History of Human Rights co-authored with Jen Quataert. He is founder and director of a project of the National Security Archive to declassify U.S. government documents about Indonesia and East Timor during the reign of General Suharto (1966-1998).

If interested, please submit an abstract and a brief bio by 1 January 2025 to Noel Packard at: npac825@aucklanduni.ac.nz. or to Dr. Vaillancourt, at: thibaut.vaillancourt@gmail.com or through the CFP abstract portal.

Tentative Timeline:

March 1, 2025: Deadline for submission of new abstracts on operations that can be included in a second journal issue if necessary.

April-November 2025 Target publication timeline for papers already in progress.

For more information, please send questions and abstracts to:

Noel Packard PhD Email: npac825@aucklanduni.ac. nz

 

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