Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1478029226 ISBN 13 : 9781478029229

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2025

Synopsis

As the first comprehensive volume to explore the impact of empire on Afghanistan’s past and present, Decolonizing Afghanistan marks a decolonial turn in Afghanistan and American studies. Featuring new and often sidelined ground-up perspectives this collection examines how Afghan communities have subverted, resisted, and participated in colonial projects from the early twentieth century to the present, with a particular focus on the US intervention that began in 2001. Contributors interrogate the relationship between knowledge and power to analyze how narratives about Afghanistan have framed and legitimated imperial governance. Topics span the contradictions and consequences of the US “forever” War, the rise of private security contracting, the deployment of biometric and surveillance technologies, the politics of US and Taliban counter-media operations, the evolution of gender discourses, and the mobilization of Afghan-Americans and “Afghan Culture,” among others. Throughout, contributors draw important connections and insights to ongoing global anticolonial struggles and offer new decolonial futures.

Contributors. Matthieu Aikins, Dawood Azami, Purnima Bose, Paula Chakravartty, Robert D. Crews, Marya Hannun, Ali Karimi, Nivi Manchanda, Sabauon Nasseri, Tausif Noor, Wazhmah Osman, Hosai Qasmi, Zohra Saed, Gazelle Samizay, Morwari Zafar, Helena Zeweri

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Wazhmah Osman is Associate Professor of Media and Communication at Temple University.

Robert D. Crews is Professor of History at Stanford University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1478029226
• ISBN 13: 9781478029229
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 376
• Éditeur: Osman Wazhmah, Crews Robert
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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