Description: Further DetailsTitle: Globalizing AfghanistanCondition: NewSubtitle: Terrorism, War, and the Rhetoric of Nation BuildingISBN-10: 0822350149EAN: 9780822350149ISBN: 9780822350149Publisher: Duke University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 06/06/2011Description: 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 SzemanLanguage: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 232mmItem Length: 156mmContributor: Zubeda Jalalzai (Edited by), David Jefferess (Edited by)Genre: HistoryBook Series: American Encounters/Global InteractionsItem Weight: 331gTopic: Law & PoliticsAuthor: David JefferessRelease Year: 2011 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Globalizing Afghanistan
Title: Globalizing Afghanistan
Subtitle: Terrorism, War, and the Rhetoric of Nation Building
ISBN-10: 0822350149
EAN: 9780822350149
ISBN: 9780822350149
Release Date: 06/06/2011
Release Year: 2011
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: David Jefferess (Edited by)
Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions
Book Title: Globalizing Afghanistan : Terrorism, War, and the Rhetoric of Nation Building
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2011
Topic: Asia / Central Asia, Military / Afghan War (2001-), International Relations / General, Women's Studies
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, Social Science, History
Item Weight: 11.7 Oz
Author: David Jefferess
Item Length: 9.1 in
Book Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
