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Television and the Afghan Culture Wars
Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
1 202 kr
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Portrayed in Western discourse as tribal and traditional, Afghans have in fact intensely debated women's rights, democracy, modernity, and Islam as part of their nation building in the post-9/11 era. Wazhmah Osman places television at the heart of these public and politically charged clashes while revealing how the medium also provides war-weary Afghans with a semblance of open discussion and healing. After four decades of gender and sectarian violence, she argues, the internationally funded media sector has the potential to bring about justice, national integration, and peace. Fieldwork from across Afghanistan allowed Osman to record the voices of many Afghan media producers and people. Afghans offer their own seldom-heard views on the country's cultural progress and belief systems, their understandings of themselves, and the role of international interventions. Osman analyzes the impact of transnational media and foreign funding while keeping the focus on local cultural contestations, productions, and social movements. As a result, she redirects the global dialogue about Afghanistan to Afghans and challenges top-down narratives of humanitarian development.
Television and the Afghan Culture Wars
Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
292 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
Portrayed in Western discourse as tribal and traditional, Afghans have in fact intensely debated women's rights, democracy, modernity, and Islam as part of their nation building in the post-9/11 era. Wazhmah Osman places television at the heart of these public and politically charged clashes while revealing how the medium also provides war-weary Afghans with a semblance of open discussion and healing. After four decades of gender and sectarian violence, she argues, the internationally funded media sector has the potential to bring about justice, national integration, and peace. Fieldwork from across Afghanistan allowed Osman to record the voices of many Afghan media producers and people. Afghans offer their own seldom-heard views on the country's cultural progress and belief systems, their understandings of themselves, and the role of international interventions. Osman analyzes the impact of transnational media and foreign funding while keeping the focus on local cultural contestations, productions, and social movements. As a result, she redirects the global dialogue about Afghanistan to Afghans and challenges top-down narratives of humanitarian development.
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This is an account of the Afghan War and its tragic aftermath as told by the women who were caught up in it and became its innocent victims. The voices in this oral history will provide personal snapshots to the news reports of the Taliban activities now coming out of Afghanistan. These accounts provide an historical background to the growth of the Taliban, and reveal circumstances of the daily life of the women who must survive in this very closed society.Through the medium of oral history, this book brings to light the stories of the women who have suffered the consequences of the Afghan War and whose lives and whose daughter's lives have been changed forever. Through the voices of the Soviet women who supported their soldiers on Afghan soil, and the voices of the Afghan women scattered by circumstance around the globe, the last Cold War battle between the superpowers takes on a very personal tone. Policy decisions issued from on high became the rockets that destroyed these women physically, mentally, and emotionally. Children were killed or maimed and homes and families destroyed. Ultimately, these women were forced to flee or become invisible within their homeland. The Taliban militia rose from the dust of this war and by government decree reduced even the most educated and influential of the women to non-person status.
301 kr
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283 kr
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US Politics, Propaganda and the Afghan Mujahedeen: Domestic Politics and the Afghan War
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
447 kr
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Influential fundraising groups and senators in the US made enormous efforts in the First Afghan War to present the Mujahedeen as ‘freedom fighters’ – even while the CIA secretly armed them. A mass propaganda effort was launched, aimed at portraying parts of Afghanistan as victims of communist aggression. As we know now, many of those groups that were armed became the seedbeds for organisations like Al-Qaeda. Dr Jacqueline Fitzgibbon, through a forensic investigation of the American PR of the period, argues that this militarised and fractured Afghan society for a generation – partly resulting in the mess today. She examines the American efforts to suppress any reports which showed these forces as anti-western or anti ‘American values’, and instead to portray the arming of partisan groups, often an extremely dangerous course of action, as an example of American values in action.
Empire and Tribe in the Afghan Frontier Region
Custom, Conflict and British Strategy in Waziristan until 1947
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
461 kr
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Waziristan, a region on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, has in recent years become a flash point in the so-called ‘War on Terror’. Hugh Beattie looks at the history of this region, examining British attempts to manage the tribes from 1849 until Pakistan’s declaration of independence in 1947. He explores British attempts to divide the frontier region into separate British and Afghan spheres of influence. In the minds of British policymakers, this demarcation would secure the position of the Empire, and so Beattie highlights the various policy initiatives towards the frontier region over the period in question. Crucially, he analyses how the British perceived the local tribes, what constituted authority within tribal frameworks, and the military and political ramifications of these perceptions. As he also explores the contemporary relevance of this region, taking into account the resurgence of the Taliban in Waziristan, Beattie’s analysis is vital for those interested in the history and security implications of the Afghan frontier with Pakistan.
308 kr
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My Beautiful Sisters: A Memoir of Courage, Hope, and the Afghan Women's Soccer Team
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
346 kr
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England and Russia Face to Face in Asia; Travels With the Afghan Boundary Commission
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
461 kr
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Grammar of the Pukhto, Pushto, or Language of the Afgháns ... Together With Translations From the Articles of War, &c., and Remarks on the Language, Literature, and Descent of the Afghán Tribes; v.1
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
336 kr
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182 kr
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251 kr
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England and Russia Face to Face in Asia; Travels With the Afghan Boundary Commission
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
350 kr
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433 kr
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308 kr
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391 kr
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280 kr
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Legends Of The Afghan Countries, In Verse
With Various Pieces, Original And Translated
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
437 kr
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Legends Of The Afghan Countries, In Verse
With Various Pieces, Original And Translated
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
312 kr
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Pennell of the Afghan Frontier
The Life of Theodore Leighton Pennell, M.D., B. Sc., F.R.C.S. Kaisar-I-Hind Medal for Public Service in India
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
448 kr
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Pennell of the Afghan Frontier
The Life of Theodore Leighton Pennell, M.D., B. Sc., F.R.C.S. Kaisar-I-Hind Medal for Public Service in India
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
339 kr
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Lights & Shades of Hill Life in the Afghan and Hindu Highlands of the Punjab
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
433 kr
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308 kr
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377 kr
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238 kr
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350 kr
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182 kr
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