Marc W. Herold

Associate Professor of Economic Development & Women's Studies
603.862.3375
mwherold@cisunix.unh.edu [1]

Fields of Specialization:

Third-world economic development; Brazil; civilian casualties of modern air wars; women and development; international studies; postmodernism; political economy

Education:

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

M.B.A. University of California, Berkeley

B.S. Swiss Federal Polytechnic University

I have frequently been asked (and criticized) why a development economist should be concerned or know anything about, civilian casualties of war? My answer has been that in some thirty years of teaching and researching about the Third World my focus has been upon how “development” has affected the everyday lives of people. Sadly, such development has created an “economic body count.” My interest in civilian casualties explores how modern wars result in a “war body count,” severely affecting the everyday lives of simple, innocent people struggling to survive. The very same point has recently been made by the former chief economist of the World Bank, Joseph Stiglitz, in his Globalization and Its Discontents (New York: W.W. Norton, 20002) on p. 24.

Talk [2] give at Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, at the launch for Professor Herold's book "Afghanistan as an empty space"

Recent Research:

The AP speaks Newspeak¹ Reporting on Afghanistan and the 1,000 civilians killed in 2007 parrots the Pentagon [3], Cursor.org

Afghanistan Como un Espacio Vacio El Perfecto Estado Neocolonial Del Siglo XXI. Madrid: AKAL, 2007.

Afghanistan as an Empty Space. The Perfect Neo-Colonial State in the 21st Century, Part One [4], Cursor.org

Pseudo-development in Karzai's Afghanistan. Afghanistan as an Empty Space, Part Two [5], Cursor.org

Hat Trick: Selling Brand Karzai. Afghanistan as an Empty Space, Part Three [6], Cursor.org

U.S. Military Strategy to Maintain Afghanistan as an "Empty Space": Afghanistan as an Empty Space, Part Four [7], Cursor.org

'Unworthy' Afghan Bodies: 'Smarter' U.S. Weapons Kill More Innocents, in Stephen Rockel and Rick Halpern (eds), 'Collateral Damage': Civilian Casualties, War and Empire (London and Toronto: Pluto Press and Between the Lines Press of Toronto).

Entre o Açúcar e o Petróleo: Bahia e Salvador, 1920-1960 [8], Revista Espaco Academico No. 42

"'Urban Dimensions' of the Punishment of Afghanistan by U.S. Bombs," in S. Graham and S. Marvin (eds), Cities, War and Terrorism (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers).

"Estratégias de adaptação e sobrevivência das mulheres em periódos de reestruturação macroeconômica - Household survival strategies in a context of growing economic despair: a comparison of Salvador and Fortaleza," (with Lucigleide N. Nascimento and Francisco Correio de Oliveira). Proceedings of the Fifth BRASA Conference (Albuquerque: Brazilian American Studies Association - BRASA, Recife).

A very large data base, regularly updated, on the effects of the U.S. and allied bombing and occupation of Afghanistan (October 7-present), at http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mwherold [9]