The Carpetbaggers of Kabul and Other American-Afghan Entanglements : Intimate Development, Geopolitics, and the Currency of Gender and Grief

Language: English

Published by University Of Georgia Press Jan 2017, 2017

0820350354 / 9780820350356

Series: Book 30 of 51 - Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation

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Neuware - The 2001 invasion of Afghanistan by United States and coalition forces was followed by a flood of aid and development dollars and 'experts' representing well over two thousand organizations--each with separate policy initiatives, geopolitical agendas, and socioeconomic interests. This book examines the everyday actions of people associated with this international effort, with a special emphasis on small players: individuals and groups who charted alternative paths outside the existing networks of aid and development. This focus highlights the complexities, complications, and contradictions at the intersection of the everyday and the geopolitical, showing how dominant geopolitical narratives influence daily life in places like Afghanistan--and what happens when the goals of aid workersor the needs of aid recipients do not fit the narrative. Specifically, this book examines the use of gender, 'need,' and grief as drivers for both common and exceptional responses to geopolitical interventions.Throughout this work, Jennifer L. Fluri and Rachel Lehr describe intimate encounters at a microscale to complicate and dispute the ways in which Afghans and their country have been imagined, described, fetishized, politicized, vilified, and rescued. The authors identify the ways in which Afghan men and women have been narrowly categorized as perpetrators and victims, respectively. They discuss several projects to show how gender and grief became forms of currency that were exchanged for different social, economic, and political opportunities. Such entanglements suggest the power and influence of the United States while illustrating the ways in which individuals and groups have attempted to chart alternative avenues of interaction, intervention, and interpretation.…

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Title
The Carpetbaggers of Kabul and Other American-Afghan Entanglements : Intimate Development, Geopolitics, and the Currency of Gender and Grief
Author
Rachel Lehr
Publisher
University Of Georgia Press Jan 2017
Publication year
2017
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Language
English
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0820350354
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9780820350356
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236 grams
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229x152x12 mm
Series
Book 30 of 51: Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation

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