Globalizing Afghanistan
Subtitle: terrorism, war, and the rhetoric of nation building
By: edited by Zubeda Jalalzai and David Jefferess
Series: American encounters/global interactions; American encounters/global interactions
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780822350019; 9780822350149; 9780822351009
Subjects: Social conditions; History; Afghan War, 2001-; Foreign relations; Women
Description: 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 such as: the implications of Afghanistan's lucrative opium trade, links between the Taliban and major events in the Islamic world and Central Asia, feminist organizations interaction with the Afghan women's movement, portrayal of those women, the role of Iranian filmmaking in the production of a global cinematic discourse about Afghanistan, and academics producing meaningful alternative viewpoints on the exercise of American power abroad.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: It's the opium, stupid : Afghanistan, globalization, and drugs / Nigel C. Gibson; title: Afghanistan in a globalized world : a longer view / Rodney J. Steward; title: The "Afghan Beat" : Pukhtoon journalism and the Afghan war / Altaf Ullah Khan; title: Veiled motives : women's liberation and the war in Afghanistan / Gwen Bergner; title: Transnational feminism and the women's rights agenda in Afghanistan / Maliha Chishti and Cheshmak Farhoumand-Sims; title: Global frames on Afghanistan : The Iranian mediation of Afghanistan in international art house cinema after September 11, 2001 / Kamran Rastegar.