Decolonizing Afghanistan : Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Osman, Wazhmah.

Contributor:

Crews, Robert D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political stability--Afghanistan.

Political stability.

Violence--Afghanistan.

Violence.

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

Afghanistan.

Afghanistan--History--2021-.

Afghanistan--Social conditions--21st century.

Afghanistan--Population.

Afghanistan--Emigration and immigration--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Decolonizing Afghanistan

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Decolonizing Afghanistan traces the ways that imperial violence and its technologies of power have shaped Afghanistan and its diaspora. The volume offers a study of the impact of empire and how Afghan communities have resisted and subverted imperial governance, especially during the period of American intervention beginning in 2001. Situating this dynamic within Afghanistan's history and broader conversations around colonial power, the essays collected decolonize knowledge of Afghanistan while also showing how prior structures of understanding Afghanistan legitimate imperial power. In this way, the collection reads past and present structures of knowledge and power in order to imagine decolonial futures for Afghanistan and its diaspora, as well as making an argument for colonialism as the critical framework to understand the history of Afghanistan since the Soviet invasion of 1979"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Decolonizing Afghanistan: A Turning Point / Wazhmah Osman, Helena Zeweri, and Robert D. Crews

Imperial Imaginaries and the Historical Production of Afghanistan as a Diagnostic Object of Global Security

Imperial Misconceptions: The Politics of Knowledge Production / Nivi Manchanda

Afghanistan and the Soviet Colonial Archive / Robert D. Crews

The Imperial Gaze and the Development Gaze: Reckoning with the Two Faces of American Empire and Its Afterlives and Deaths / Wazhmah Osman

Infrastructures and Technologies of Empire

Operationalizing "Afghan Culture": Role-Playing and Translation in US Military Counterinsurgency Training / Morwari Zafar

Shifting Loyalties and Profits: The Rise of Afghanistan’s Western-Funded Private Security Contractors / Matthieu Aikins

Tracking and Targeting: The US Surveillance Infrastructures in Afghanistan / Ali Karimi

The Politics and Optics of Representation: Media and Propaganda

Modernity and Gender Beyond the European Gaze: International Media Coverage of Afghanistan and the Making of News in the 1920s—King Amanullah and Queen Suraya’s Grand Tour / Marya Hannun

A Changing Orientalist Representation of Afghans and Afghanistan in Indian Cinema / Hosai Qasmi

Withdrawal Narratives: Afghan Women, Time, and Developmental Idealism / Purnima Bose

The Second Front: The Taliban Information Operation and the Battle for Hearts and Minds in the US/NATO War in Afghanistan / Dawood Azami

Reflecting and Speaking Back to Empire

Between Humanitarian Aid and Political Critique: Afghan American Mobilizations Post-Evacuations / Helena Zeweri

Reflections: Afghan Literature and Politics Under US Occupation / Sabauon Nasseri

Imperial Remainders: Reconfiguring the Legacy of US Occupation in Contemporary Afghan Art / Tausif Noor

Disrupting the Colonial Canvas: Afghan Art in the Wake of Withdrawal / Gazelle Samizay

An Other Afghanistan: Indigeneity, Migration, and Belonging in Andkhoy (1973) / Zohra Saed.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4780-6142-1

OCLC:

1552793356