Jalalzai / Jefferess Globalizing Afghanistan

Terrorism, War, and the Rhetoric of Nation Building
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9421-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Reihe: American encounters/global interactions

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jalalzai, Zubeda

Jefferess, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Globalizing Afghanistan / Zubeda Jalalzai and David Jefferess 1

It's the Opium, Stupid: Afghanistan, Globalization, and Drugs / Nigel C. Gibson 31

Afghanistan in a Globalized World: A Longer View / Rodney J. Steward 51

The "Afghan Beat": Pukhtoon Journalism and the Afghan War / Altaf Ullah Khan 79

Veiled Motives: Women's Liberation and the War in Afghanistan / Gwen Bergner 95

Transnational Feminism and the Women's Rights Agenda in Afghanistan / Maliha Chishti & Cheshmak Farhoumand-Sims 117

Global Frames on Afghanistan: The Iranian Mediation of Afghanistan in International Art House Cinema after September 11, 2001 / Kamran Rastegar 145

Conclusion: The Current Amazement / Afghanistan, Terror, and Theory / Imre Szeman 165

Bibliography 187

Contributors 201

Index 205

Über Autor(innen)

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.