Globalizing Afghanistan

Terrorism, War, and the Rhetoric of Nation Building
Herausgeber: Jalalzai, Zubeda

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Produktbeschreibung

International scholars, activists, and aid workers address Afghanistan and the current phase of the U.S.-led War on Terror and place Afghanistan within global networks of power and influence, highlighting that nation's role in long term issues of nation-b

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 330g
• ISBN-13: 9780822350149
• ISBN-10: 0822350149
• Artikelnr.: 32873445

Autorenporträt

Zubeda Jalalzai and David Jefferess, eds.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Globalizing Afghanistan / Zubeda Jalalzai and David Jefferess
1
It's the Opium, Stupid: Afghanistan, Globalization, and Drugs / Nigel C.
Gibson 31
Afghanistan in a Globalized World: A Longer View / Rodney J. Steward 51
The "Afghan Beat": Pukhtoon Journalism and the Afghan War / Altaf Ullah
Khan 79
Veiled Motives: Women's Liberation and the War in Afghanistan / Gwen
Bergner 95
Transnational Feminism and the Women's Rights Agenda in Afghanistan /
Maliha Chishti & Cheshmak Farhoumand-Sims 117
Global Frames on Afghanistan: The Iranian Mediation of Afghanistan in
International Art House Cinema after September 11, 2001 / Kamran Rastegar
145
Conclusion: The Current Amazement / Afghanistan, Terror, and Theory / Imre
Szeman 165
Bibliography 187
Contributors 201
Index 205