Globalizing Afghanistan

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung A kaleidoscopic view of Afghanistan and the global networks of power! influence! and representation in which it is immersed 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

Klappentext

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

Zusammenfassung
A kaleidoscopic view of Afghanistan and the global networks of power, influence, and representation in which it is immersed

Inhalt

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