Homo Itinerans

Towards a Global Ethnography of Afghanistan

AvAlessandro Monsutti

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Afghan society has been marked in a lasting way by war and the exodus of part of its population. While many have emigrated to countries across the world, they have been matched by the flow of experts who arrive in Afghanistan after having been in other war-torn countries such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Palestine or East Timor. This book builds on more than two decades of ethnographic travels in some twenty countries, bringing the readers from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran to Europe, North America and Australia. It describes the everyday life and transnational circulations of Afghan refugees and expatriates.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-11-01
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:148
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781789209297

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Alessandro Monsutti is Professor at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. He is the author of War and Migration: Social Networks and Economic Strategies of the Hazaras of Afghanistan (Routledge, 2005).

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Praise for the French edition:“The book is fascinating, it is strong and well-argued and it is remarkably well written … Highlighting the tension between the transnationalism of the Afghan state and that of the Afghans in the world, Alessandro Monsutti develops a very convincing criticism of the universalist imposition of the international community up to family and individual lives.” • Michel Agier, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Paris

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceAcknowledgementsKey DatesIntroductionChapter 1. Reconstructing Afghanistan: Counterinsurgency and Colonial ImaginaryChapter 2. The State in All Its States: Elections and DemocratizationChapter 3. Educating the Elites: From Geneva to Abu DhabiChapter 4. Rural Development: A Matter of WorkshopsChapter 5. Village Life: Overlapping Solidarities and ConflictsChapter 6. Neighbouring Countries: Equivocal RefugesChapter 7. Across the Seas: Playing with CategoriesChapter 8. Greece: The Filter of All HopesChapter 9. Europe, Mon Amour: Or the Ruses of ItinerancyChapter 10. Contested Modernities: A Transnational Anthropology of the PoliticalConclusionReferencesIndex