Modern Afghanistan : The Impact of 40 Years of War / edited by M. Nazif Shahrani.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shahrani, M. Nazif Mohib, 1945- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political stability--Afghanistan.

Political stability.

Violence--Afghanistan.

Violence.

Afghanistan--Social conditions--20th century.

Afghanistan.

Afghanistan--Social conditions--21st century.

Afghanistan--Politics and government--20th century.

Afghanistan--Politics and government--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource.)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2018.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

What impact does 40 years of war, violence, and military intervention have on a country and its people? Modern Afghanistan is a collection of the work of interdisciplinary scholars, aid workers, and citizens to assess the impact of this prolonged conflict on Afghanistan. Nearly all of the people in Afghan society have been affected by persistent violent conflict. The book focuses on social and political dynamics, issues of gender, and the shifting relationships between tribal, sectarian, and regional communities. Contributors consider topics ranging from masculinity among the Afghan Pashtun to services offered for the disabled, and from Taliban extremism to the role of TV in the Afghan culture wars. Prioritizing the perspective and experiences of the people of Afghanistan, new insights are shared into the lives of those who are hoping to build a secure future on the rubble of a violent past.

Contents:

Introduction : the impact of four decades of war and violence on afghan society and political culture / Nazif Shahrani

Technologies of power-competing discourses on national identity, statehood, and state stability

Afghanistan : a turbulent state in transition / Amin Saikal

Afghanistan's "traditional" Islam in transition : the deep roots of Taliban extremism / Bashir Ahmad Ansari

Language, poetry, and identity in Afghanistan : poetic texts, changing contexts / Mohammad Omar Sharifi

Lineages of the urban state : locating continuity and change in post-2001 Kabul / Khalid Homayun Nadiri and M. Farshid Alemi Hakimyar

Webs and spiders : four decades of violence, intervention, and statehood in Afghanistan (1978-2016) / Timor Sharan

Merchant-warlords : changing forms of leadership in Afghanistan's unstable political economy / Noah Coburn

Borders, access to strategic resources, and challenges to state stability / Ahmad Shayeq Qassem

Brought to you by foreigners, warlords, and local activists : TV and the Afghan culture wars / Wazhmah Osman

Personal and collective identities, gender relations, and the trust deficit

"The war destroyed our society" : masculinity, violence, and shifting cultural idioms among Afghan Pashtun / Andrea Chiovenda

Engendering the Taliban / Sonia Ahsan

Anticipating discontinuous change : Afghanistan in retrospect and prospect / Robert L. Canfield and Fahim Masoud

Adapting to a new political ecology of uncertainties at the margins

Badakhshanis since the Saur revolution : struggle, triumph, hope, and uncertainty / M. Nazif Shahrani

Hazara civil society activists and local, national, and international political institutions / Melissa Kerr Chiovenda

Adapting to three decades of uncertainty : the flexibility of social institutions among Baloch groups in Afghanistan / Just Boedeker

Party institutionalization meets women's empowerment? Acquiring power and influence in Afghanistan / Ann Larson

Violence, social services delivery, and the rising trust deficit

Childbirth and social change in Afghanistan / Kylea Laina Liese

Signatures of distrust in contemporary Afghanistan : more than a decade of development effort for vulnerable groups : the case of disability / Parul Bakhshi and Jean-Francois Trani.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-253-03326-8

0-253-03026-9

OCLC:

1033673570