Title The carpetbaggers of Kabul and other American-Afghan entanglements : intimate development, geopolitics, and the currency of gender and grief / Jennifer L. Fluri, Rachel Lehr

Published Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2017] ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 165 pages) : illustrations Series Geographies of justice and social transformation Geographies of justice and social transformation. Contents The Carpetbaggers of Kabul -- Gender and Grief Currency -- "Conscientiously Chic" : The Production and Consumption of Afghan Women's Liberation -- "We Should Be Eating the Grant, but the Grant Eats Us" -- "Saving" Soraya -- "Our Hearts Break" : 9/11 Deaths, Afghan Lives, and Intimate Intervention -- Gender Currency and the Development of Wealth Summary The 2001 invasion of Afghanistan by United States and coalition forces was followed by a flood of aid and development dollars and "experts" representing well over two thousand organizations--each with separate policy initiatives, geopolitical agendas, and socioeconomic interests. This book examines the everyday actions of people associated with this international effort, with a special emphasis on small players: individuals and groups who charted alternative paths outside the existing networks of aid and development. This focus highlights the complexities, complications, and contradictions at the intersection of the everyday and the geopolitical, showing how dominant geopolitical narratives influence daily life in places like Afghanistan--and what happens when the goals of aid workers or the needs of aid recipients do not fit the narrative Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-160) and index Notes Print version record Subject Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Civilian relief Postwar reconstruction -- Afghanistan Geopolitics -- Afghanistan HISTORY -- Asia -- Central Asia. HISTORY -- Asia -- General. HISTORY -- Middle East -- General. Civilian war relief Geopolitics Politics and government Postwar reconstruction SUBJECT Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 2001-2021 Afghanistan -- History -- 2001-2021 Subject Afghanistan Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Lehr, Rachel, 1945- author. LC no. 2016955269 ISBN 0820350338 9780820350332 9780820350349 0820350346

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