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Imagining Afghanistan
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Author : Nivi Manchanda
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-07-09
Imagining Afghanistan written by Nivi Manchanda and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-09 with History categories.
An innovative exploration of how colonial interventions in Afghanistan have been made possible through representations of the country as 'backward'.
Imagining Afghanistan
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Author : Alla Ivanchikova
language : en
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Release Date : 2019-09-15
Imagining Afghanistan written by Alla Ivanchikova and has been published by Purdue University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-15 with Social Science categories.
Imagining Afghanistan examines how Afghanistan has been imagined in literary and visual texts that were published after the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent U.S.-led invasion—the era that propelled Afghanistan into the center of global media visibility. Through an analysis of fiction, graphic novels, memoirs, drama, and film, the book demonstrates that writing and screening “Afghanistan” has become a conduit for understanding our shared post-9/11 condition. “Afghanistan” serves as a lens through which contemporary cultural producers contend with the moral ambiguities of twenty-first-century humanitarianism, interpret the legacy of the Cold War, debate the role of the U.S. in the rise of transnational terror, and grapple with the long-term impact of war on both human and nonhuman ecologies. Post-9/11 global Afghanistan literary production remains largely NATO-centric insofar as it is marked by an uncritical investment in humanitarianism as an approach to Third World suffering and in anti-communism as an unquestioned premise. The book’s first half exposes how persisting anti-socialist biases—including anti-statist bias—not only shaped recent literary and visual texts on Afghanistan, resulting in a distorted portrayal of its tragic history, but also informed these texts’ reception by critics. In the book’s second half, the author examines cultural texts that challenge this limited horizon and forge alternative ways of representing traumatic histories. Captured by the author through the concepts of deep time, nonhuman witness, and war as a multispecies ecology, these new aesthetics bring readers a sophisticated portrait of Afghanistan as a rich multispecies habitat affected in dramatic ways by decades of war but not annihilated.
Imagining Industan
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Author : Zafar Adeel
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-10-20
Imagining Industan written by Zafar Adeel and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-20 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This volume calls upon over a dozen Indus observers to imagine a scenario for the Indus basin in which transboundary cooperation over water resources overcomes the insecurity arising from water dependence and scarcity. From diverse perspectives, its essays examine the potential benefits to be gained from revisiting the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, as well as from mounting joint efforts to increase water supply, to combat climate change, to develop hydroelectric power, and to improve water management. The Indus basin is shared by four countries (Afghanistan, China, India, and Pakistan). The basin’s significance stems in part simply from the importance of these countries, three of them among the planet’s most populous states, one of them boasting the world’s second largest economy, and three of them members of the exclusive nuclear weapons club. However, the basin’s significance stems also from the great importance of the Indus waters themselves – due especially to the region’s massive dependence on irrigated agriculture as well as to the menace of climate change and advancing water scarcity. The “Industan” this volume imagines is a definite departure from business as usual responses to the Indus basin’s emerging fresh water crisis. The objective is to kindle serious discussion of the cooperation needed to confront what many water experts believe is developing into one of the planet’s most gravely threatened river basins. It is thus both assessment of the current state of play in regard to water security in the Indus basin and recommendation about where to go from here.
Taming The Imperial Imagination
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Author : Martin J. Bayly
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-05-19
Taming The Imperial Imagination written by Martin J. Bayly and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-19 with Political Science categories.
A new perspective on empire, international relations and foreign policy through attention to British colonial knowledge on Afghanistan from 1808 to 1878.
Re Imagining International Relations
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Author : Barry Buzan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-12-09
Re Imagining International Relations written by Barry Buzan and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-09 with Political Science categories.
Aimed at readers interested in constructing a less West-centric, more global discipline of International Relations, this book provides a concise, thorough introduction to the thought and practice of international relations from premodern India, China and the Islamic world, and how it relates to modern IR.
Oilcraft
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Author : Robert Vitalis
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2020-07-14
Oilcraft written by Robert Vitalis and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-14 with Political Science categories.
“A valuable addition to the new wave of critical studies on the history of oil and energy policy”—and a bracing corrective to longstanding myths (James M. Gustafson, Diplomatic History). Conventional wisdom tells us that the US military presence in the Persian Gulf is what guarantees American access to oil; that the “special” relationship with Saudi Arabia is necessary to stabilize an otherwise volatile market; and that these assumptions in turn provide Washington enormous leverage over Europe and Asia. But the conventional wisdom is wrong. Robert Vitalis debunks the myths of “oilcraft”, a line of magical thinking closer to witchcraft than statecraft. Oil is a commodity like any other: bought, sold, and subject to market forces. Vitalis exposes the suspect fears of oil scarcity and investigates the geopolitical impact of these false beliefs. In particular, Vitalis shows how we can reconsider the question of the US-Saudi special relationship, which confuses and traps many into unnecessarily accepting what they imagine is a devil’s bargain. Freeing ourselves from the spell of oilcraft won’t be easy, but the benefits make it essential.
Imagining Africa
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Author : Clive Gabay
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-11-22
Imagining Africa written by Clive Gabay and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-22 with Business & Economics categories.
While challenging traditional postcolonial accounts, Gabay places racial anxiety at the heart of imaginaries of Africa and international order.
The Defiant Border
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Author : Elisabeth Leake
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017
The Defiant Border written by Elisabeth Leake and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with History categories.
This book explores why the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands have remained largely independent of state controls throughout the twentieth century.
Imagining Europe
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Author : Chiara Bottici
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-07-29
Imagining Europe written by Chiara Bottici and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-29 with History categories.
Chiara Bottici and Benoît Challand explore the formative process of a European identity situated between myth and memory.
Island Fantasia
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Author : Wei-Ping Lin
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-10-07
Island Fantasia written by Wei-Ping Lin and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-07 with History categories.
An innovative ethnography and social history of the Matsu archipelago between China and Taiwan.