Title Globalizing Afghanistan : terrorism, war, and the rhetoric of nation building / edited by Zubeda Jalalzai and David Jefferess

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 217 pages) : illustrations Series American encounters/global interactions American encounters/global interactions. Contents It's the opium, stupid : Afghanistan, globalization, and drugs / Nigel C. Gibson -- Afghanistan in a globalized world : a longer view / Rodney J. Steward -- The "Afghan Beat" : Pukhtoon journalism and the Afghan war / Altaf Ullah Khan -- Veiled motives : women's liberation and the war in Afghanistan / Gwen Bergner -- Transnational feminism and the women's rights agenda in Afghanistan / Maliha Chishti and Cheshmak Farhoumand-Sims -- Global frames on Afghanistan : The Iranian mediation of Afghanistan in international art house cinema after September 11, 2001 / Kamran Rastegar Summary 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 International scholars, activists, and aid workers address Afghanistan and the current phase of the U.S.-led War on Terror and place Afghanistan within global networks of power and influence, highlighting that nation's role in long term issues of nation-b Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Afghan War, 2001-2021. Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Finance. HISTORY -- Asia -- Central Asia. Histoire. Islamisme. Lutte contre le terrorisme. Interventions étrangères. Guerres. Conditions sociales. Evolution politique. Identité culturelle. Politique étrangère. Diplomatic relations Women -- Social conditions Internationale Politik Politische Verfolgung Bekämpfung Nationenbildung Afghanistankrieg 2001-2021 Afghanistankrieg. Globalisierung. Außenpolitik. SUBJECT Afghanistan -- History -- 2001-2021 Afghanistan -- Foreign relations United States -- Foreign relations -- Afghanistan Subject Afghanistan. Etats-Unis d'Amérique. Afghanistan United States Afghanistan USA Afghanistan. USA. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Jalalzai, Zubeda, 1968- Jefferess, David, 1971- ISBN 9780822394211 0822394219

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