Imagining Afghanistan: The History and Politics of Imperial Knowledge

ISBN-13: 9781108491235 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 266 str.

Nivi Manchanda

Opis

An innovative examination of knowledge production relating to Afghanistan in the imperial imagination. Focusing on representations of gender, state and tribes, Manchanda argues that the development of pervasive tropes in Western conceptions of Afghanistan have enabled both colonial and contemporary foreign intervention in the region.

Recenzje

'… it allows us to look at the historical, political, and social processes around Afghanistan from a new perspective ...' Georgi Asatryan, Pacific Affairs

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The construction of Afghanistan as a discursive regime; 2. A space contested or the 'state' of Afghanistan; 3. The emergency episteme of the 'tribe' in Afghanistan; 4. Framed: portrayals of Afghan women in the popular imaginary; 5. Subversive identities: Afghan masculinities as societal threat; Coda.