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A kaleidoscopic view of Afghanistan and the global networks of power, influence, and representation in which it is immersed

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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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A kaleidoscopic view of Afghanistan and the global networks of power, influence, and representation in which it is immersed

Author Biography

Zubeda Jalalzai is Associate Professor of English at Rhode Island College.David Jefferess is Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. He is the author of Postcolonial Resistance: Culture, Liberation, and Transformation.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ixIntroduction: Globalizing Afghanistan / Zubeda Jalalzai and David Jefferess 1It's the Opium, Stupid: Afghanistan, Globalization, and Drugs / Nigel C. Gibson 31Afghanistan in a Globalized World: A Longer View / Rodney J. Steward 51The "Afghan Beat": Pukhtoon Journalism and the Afghan War / Altaf Ullah Khan 79Veiled Motives: Women's Liberation and the War in Afghanistan / Gwen Bergner 95Transnational Feminism and the Women's Rights Agenda in Afghanistan / Maliha Chishti & Cheshmak Farhoumand-Sims 117Global Frames on Afghanistan: The Iranian Mediation of Afghanistan in International Art House Cinema after September 11, 2001 / Kamran Rastegar 145Conclusion: The Current Amazement / Afghanistan, Terror, and Theory / Imre Szeman 165Bibliography 187Contributors 201Index 205

Review

"Ten years after September 11th Afghanistan remains a centre of global conflict and the scene of seemingly endless tragedies. This timely and important volume encourages us to step back from the relentless immediacy of the news cycle and examine the historical forces and international interests that created the present situation, including drug economies, gender hierarchies, and imperialist adventures." Michael Hardt, co-author of Commonwealth "This fascinating and timely collection situates Afghanistan in the context of globalization and brings new and little-known material into the public domain. Many of the chapters show impressive conversancy with the micropolitical and social contexts of the present conflict in Afghanistan, reflecting a highly productive partnership between academics, activists, and practitioners. This book is an invaluable companion to both students and scholars of Afghanistan, cultural and literary studies, politics, and film and media studies."--Corinne Fowler, author of Chasing Tales: Travel Writing, Journalism and the History of British Ideas about Afghanistan "Seeking to illuminate the 'networks of power, influence, and representation' in which Afghanistan is immersed, this volume explores a range of topics including the implications of Afghanistan's opium trade and the ways in which Afghanistan is represented by the media in countries such as the United States, Iran and Pakistan." Survival, Oct 2012

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"[T]his volume's approach-situating Afghanistan's cultural history globally, rather than bracketing off its travails as domestic, separate, exotic-represents a positive intervention in metropolitan knowledge production about Afghanistan. It balances depth and breadth in its selection of features related to global hegemony, resulting in a volume both unified and unique. Most of its essays engage representations accessible in American living rooms, unfurl outward through powerful global institutions, and move back down to global action on the Afghan stage. The volume should prove essential for courses on Afghan history that aim at complicating an impoverished security-state narrative, and useful in a broad range of courses in international humanities." - James Caron, College Literature

Details ISBN0822350149 Short Title GLOBALIZING AFGHANISTAN Series American Encounters/Global Interactions Language English ISBN-10 0822350149 ISBN-13 9780822350149 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2011 Author David Jefferess Imprint Duke University Press Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Edited by David Jefferess Illustrations 13 photographs Birth 1971 Publisher Duke University Press Subtitle Terrorism, War, and the Rhetoric of Nation Building Publication Date 2011-06-06 UK Release Date 2011-06-06 AU Release Date 2011-06-06 NZ Release Date 2011-06-06 US Release Date 2011-06-06 Pages 232 DEWEY 958.1047 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this

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