Globalizing Afghanistan (eBook, PDF)

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

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Produktbeschreibung

Globalizing Afghanistan offers a kaleidoscopic view of Afghanistan and the global networks of power, influence, and representation in which it is immersed. The military and nation-building interventions initiated by the United States in reaction to the events of September 11, 2001, are the background and motivation for this collection, but they are not the immediate subject of the essays. Seeking to understand the events of the past decade in a broad frame, the contributors draw on cultural and postcolonial approaches to provide new insights into this ongoing conflict. They focus on matters such as the implications of Afghanistan's lucrative opium trade, the links between the contemporary Taliban movement and major events in the Islamic world and Central Asia since the early twentieth century, and interactions between transnational feminist organizations and the Afghan women's movement. Several contributors address questions of representation. One looks at portrayals of Afghan women by the U.S. government and Western media and feminists. Another explores the surprisingly prominent role of Iranian filmmaking in the production of a global cinematic discourse about Afghanistan. A Pakistani journalist describes how coverage of Afghanistan by reporters working from Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa (formerly the North West Frontier Province) has changed over the past decade. This rich panoply of perspectives on Afghanistan concludes with a reflection on how academics might produce meaningful alternative viewpoints on the exercise of American power abroad.Contributors. Gwen Bergner, Maliha Chishti, Cheshmak Farhoumand-Sims, Nigel C. Gibson, Zubeda Jalalzai, David Jefferess, Altaf Ullah Khan, Kamran Rastegar, Rodney J. Steward, Imre Szeman

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822394211
• Artikelnr.: 54819144

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