Katie Keene-Montgomery, Ph.D.

I am having a bad voice day and I preparing for my dissertation defense tomorrow! I will return with some content soon. If you have some ideas, feel free to share them.

#MTD #DissertationDefense #AlmostDone #OneMoreDay

2 months ago | [YT] | 25

Katie Keene-Montgomery, Ph.D.

The Army just changed who can enlist. Before the debate starts, the definition matters.

DEI stands for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Three distinct concepts, one framework designed to address structural barriers rooted in historical exclusion. Raising an age cap to solve a recruitment crisis and waiving drug convictions that were enforced along racial lines are two very different policy decisions and they deserve two very different analyses.

One is workforce expansion. The other has a direct line to equity logic.

When a word becomes a political weapon, the people who understand its actual definition have more power, not less.

#OrganizationalAnthropology #DEI #MilitaryPolicy #SystemsThinking #KnowYourFrameworks​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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3 months ago | [YT] | 18

Katie Keene-Montgomery, Ph.D.

Your life has feedback loops, leverage points, and stocks you’ve been draining without knowing it. Systems thinking gives you the vocabulary to stop reacting and start designing.

Donella Meadows figured this out decades ago. Most people are still blaming themselves for outcomes their structure is producing.

Map the system. Change the structure.

#SystemsThinking #OrganizationalAnthropology #LeadershipDevelopment #WorkplaceCulture #SystemsforLife

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3 months ago | [YT] | 14

Katie Keene-Montgomery, Ph.D.

The Iran war narrative has been running for over four decades. No one is directing it. No coordination required.

What sustains it is a circuit, six institutional layers that feed one another until manufactured consent gets returned to the system as democratic mandate.

I mapped it. 🧐

Defense contractors need a threat environment to stay profitable. Elite networks form consensus before public debate begins. Funded think tanks convert that consensus into expert opinion. Official language installs the frame. Media systems distribute it as neutral coverage. And public opinion polling closes the loop, handing the output back as democratic justification for the policy that produced it.

This is the Narrative Power Circuit. An original synthesis framework drawing from Chomsky & Herman, C. Wright Mills, Gramsci, Harvey, Melman, Foucault, Entman, Edelman, and McCombs & Shaw.

The circuit explains Iran. It explains Gaza. It explains every war narrative that felt inevitable before it started.

Swipe through all six layers.

#NarrativePowerCircuit #PoliticalAnthropology #MediaLiteracy #PropagandaStudies OrganizationalAnthropology

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3 months ago | [YT] | 23

Katie Keene-Montgomery, Ph.D.

My recent post about AI writing being "lackluster" sparked a lot of curiosity.

Below is a visual guide for identifying AI-written work, though you have likely recognized and spotted these subconsciously.

Is this guide useful?

#BeOriginal #AItoAugmentNotReplace #AIWrittenContent #AI

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3 months ago | [YT] | 9

Katie Keene-Montgomery, Ph.D.

A false flag is a covert operation designed to make one actor’s violence look like another’s. The term comes from naval warfare. The logic is ancient.

Anthropology treats these events as cultural phenomena with predictable structures. Victor Turner’s social drama framework maps the sequence with precision: a staged breach generates crisis, crisis licenses redress, and redress reshapes the social order. The false flag engineers step one. Political institutions manage the rest.

What makes this worth studying is what false flags reveal about the populations they target. They work when a threatening Other has already been constructed in the cultural imagination, when trust in official narratives runs high, and when grief and fear move faster than inquiry.

Gleiwitz. Gulf of Tonkin. Operation Northwoods. These are documented, declassified, and studied. The infrastructure of deception is a recurring feature of political life.

The most durable form of resistance is a culturally transmitted practice of asking who benefits from the story being told the way it is being told.

#Anthropology #PoliticalAnthropology #FalseFlag #PowerAndNarrative #CriticalThinking​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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3 months ago | [YT] | 8

Katie Keene-Montgomery, Ph.D.

BE PREPARED. Modern warfare only needs one well-placed strike on a substation.

Ukraine lost roughly half its power capacity in months. Yemen’s humanitarian crisis was built one port attack at a time. The grid, the water, the food supply, the hospital and these are the battlefield now, and most Americans have no plan for even 72 hours without them.

Preparedness used to be civic knowledge. We need to reclaim it.

#InfrastructureWarfare #CriticalInfrastructure #ModernWarfare #EmergencyPreparedness #Anthropology

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3 months ago | [YT] | 9

Katie Keene-Montgomery, Ph.D.

The Trump administration is actively pursuing Greenland, with the White House signaling that military options are on the table.

Greenlandic Inuit activist and attorney Aaju Peter said this week that Indigenous Greenlanders are demanding to be part of any conversation about their future. This is not a new dynamic.

In 1951, the United States secretly built a military base on Inuit land with no consent and no acknowledgment. Anthropologists have been documenting the cost to the community ever since.

History does not repeat itself, but the structure of power often does.

#Greenland #InuitSovereignty #TrumpAdministration #Anthropology #IndigenousRights

3 months ago | [YT] | 6

Katie Keene-Montgomery, Ph.D.

Military Anthropology:

Every military conflict requires cultural infrastructure (the stories, symbols, and institutions) that make ordinary people willing to harm strangers.

Before a soldier ever pulls a trigger, a government has to convince them that the person on the other side is less than human. Anthropologists call this the CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE ENEMY, and it operates through language, media, and ritual long before the first shot is fired.

Sam Keen, Benedict Anderson, and David Grossman have each documented how this machinery works and what it costs the people inside it.

In the context of the current conflict involving Iran, we can trace exactly how these patterns unfold through state media, military rhetoric, and institutional loyalty structures.

Soldiers on every side are taught to see the other as a symbol before they ever see them as a person. That gap is where moral injury lives. Understanding how it works is the first step to resisting it.

#Anthropology #MoralInjury #MilitaryAnthropology #ConscientiousObjector #KnowYourRights

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3 months ago | [YT] | 10

Katie Keene-Montgomery, Ph.D.

Yeah, I'm kind of a big deal, sometimes...

#KeynoteSpeaker #EuroGlobal #UnitedGlobalConferences #OrganizationalAnthropology #CulturalIntelligence #LeadershipDevelopment

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