Bojan Savic

Afghanistan Under Siege

The Afghan Body and the Postcolonial Border

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book, based on field work undertaken in Afghanistan itself and through engagement with postcolonial theory, Bojan Savic critiques western intervention in Afghanistan by showing how its casting of Afghan natives as "dangerous" has created a power network which fractures the country - in echoes of 19th and 20th century colonial powers in the region. Savic also offers an analysis of how and by what means global security priorities have affected Afghan lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 557g
• ISBN-13: 9781788315265
• ISBN-10: 178831526X
• Artikelnr.: 57840239

Autorenporträt

Bojan Savic is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Kent, and Lecturer in Political Science at the Brussels School of International Studies, Brussels, Belgium.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: Questions, Who is Addressing Them, and How Chapter 1: Introduction:
The Abnormal of the Afghan War on Terror PART II: Why Does Postcolonial
Security Care About Herat? Chapter II: Mapping Out Tools of Critique: A
Conceptual Framework Chapter III: Spaces and Forces of Pacification and
Containment PART III: Power over Heratis and Resistances to It: Three Case
Studies Chapter IV: How Pacified Heratis "Milk the Cow": Nonviolent
Resistances to Global Security Chapter V: Banished by Culture, Violated in
Its Midst: Managing Musalla's Homeless between Minarets, Development, and
Security Chapter VI: Experiencing Self as the Periphery: Heratis at the
Iranian-Afghan Border PART IV: Conclusion Chapter VII: On Postcolonial
Power Equilibria Index