Summary: Emily Gilbert is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, cross-appointed between the Canadian Studies program and the Department of Geography. Her current research is an examination of how contemporary war is restructuring the ways that lives are valued (or not). Why have militaries been making cash payments when they inadvertently injure, kill or incur property damage in the ‘war on terror’? This presentation will examine the practices around compensation that are being rolled out in the battle to win the ‘hearts and minds’ of the population. It will attend to the ways that compensation is being cast as one prong of economic development, or in the military’s words, how money is used as a “non-lethal weapon” in counterinsurgency.
