Description: Imagining Afghanistan by Nivi Manchanda An innovative examination of knowledge production relating to Afghanistan in the imperial imagination. Focusing on representations of gender, state and tribes, Manchanda argues that the development of pervasive tropes in Western conceptions of Afghanistan have enabled both colonial and contemporary foreign intervention in the region. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Over time and across different genres, Afghanistan has been presented to the world as potential ally, dangerous enemy, gendered space, and mysterious locale. These powerful, if competing, visions seek to make sense of Afghanistan and to render it legible. In this innovative examination, Nivi Manchanda uncovers and critically explores Anglophone practices of knowledge cultivation and representational strategies, and argues that Afghanistan occupies a distinctive place in the imperial imagination: over-determined and under-theorised, owing largely to the particular history of imperial intervention in the region. Focusing on representations of gender, state and tribes, Manchanda re-historicises and de-mythologises the study of Afghanistan through a sustained critique of colonial forms of knowing and demonstrates how the development of pervasive tropes in Western conceptions of Afghanistan have enabled Western intervention, invasion and bombing in the region from the nineteenth century to the present. Author Biography Nivi Manchanda is a senior lecturer in International Politics at Queen Mary University of London. Her research interests include postcolonial theory, histories of race and empire, and gender studies. She is co-editor of Race and Racism in International Relations: Confronting the Global Colour Line (2014) and currently serves as editor in chief of the journal Politics. Table of Contents Introduction; 1. The construction of Afghanistan as a discursive regime; 2. A space contested or the state of Afghanistan; 3. The emergency episteme of the tribe in Afghanistan; 4. Framed: portrayals of Afghan women in the popular imaginary; 5. Subversive identities: Afghan masculinities as societal threat; Coda. Review Theoretically deft and empirically rich, Imagining Afghanistan is a searing account of how imperial narratives facilitate humanitarian interventions. Manchanda forensically dissects this orientalist imaginary forged from a large corpus of hoary clichés about states, tribes and eternal warriors, and deeply gendered portraiture of brown women in need of rescue from threatening brown men. A brilliant book. Laleh Khalili, author of Time in the Shadows: Confinement in CounterinsurgenciesIn its secret history of the war in Afghanistan, US military officials confessed that they didnt have the foggiest notion of what they were undertaking. Nivi Manchandas Imagining Afghanistan explains why not, in painstaking and painful detail. Robert Vitalis, author of The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt US Energy PolicyImagining Afghanistan is an important work that clearly demonstrates how terminology shapes perceptions, and also how the depiction of a country, people, and even a situation can change with the political and social vicissitudes of the day … Highly recommended. T. M. May, Choice… it allows us to look at the historical, political, and social processes around Afghanistan from a new perspective ... Georgi Asatryan, Pacific Affairs Promotional An innovative exploration of how colonial interventions in Afghanistan have been made possible through representations of the country as backward. Review Quote Theoretically deft and empirically rich, Imagining Afghanistan is a searing account of how imperial narratives facilitate humanitarian interventions. Manchanda forensically dissects this orientalist imaginary forged from a large corpus of hoary clich Promotional "Headline" An innovative exploration of how colonial interventions in Afghanistan have been made possible through representations of the country as backward. Details ISBN1108811760 Author Nivi Manchanda Short Title Imagining Afghanistan Publisher Cambridge University Press Language English ISBN-10 1108811760 ISBN-13 9781108811767 Format Paperback Subtitle The History and Politics of Imperial Knowledge DEWEY 958.1 Audience General/Trade Pages 263 Year 2022 Publication Date 2022-12-15 UK Release Date 2022-12-15 Imprint Cambridge University Press Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises; 11 Halftones, black and white AU Release Date 2022-12-15 NZ Release Date 2022-12-15 Alternative 9781108491235 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:168650825;
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