Modern Afghanistan: The Impact Of 40 Years Of War
by M. Nazif Shahrani /
2018 / English / PDF
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Introduction : the impact of four decades of war and violence on afghan society and political culture / Nazif Shahrani Technologies of power-competing discourses on national identity, statehood, and state stability Afghanistan : a turbulent state in transition / Amin Saikal Afghanistan's "traditional" Islam in transition : the deep roots of Taliban extremism / Bashir Ahmad Ansari Language, poetry, and identity in Afghanistan : poetic texts, changing contexts / Mohammad Omar Sharifi Lineages of the urban state : locating continuity and change in post-2001 Kabul / Khalid Homayun Nadiri and M. Farshid Alemi Hakimyar Webs and spiders : four decades of violence, intervention, and statehood in Afghanistan (1978-2016) / Timor Sharan Merchant-warlords : changing forms of leadership in Afghanistan's unstable political economy / Noah Coburn Borders, access to strategic resources, and challenges to state stability / Ahmad Shayeq Qassem Brought to you by foreigners, warlords, and local activists : TV and the Afghan culture wars / Wazhmah Osman Personal and collective identities, gender relations, and the trust deficit "The war destroyed our society" : masculinity, violence, and shifting cultural idioms among Afghan Pashtun / Andrea Chiovenda Engendering the Taliban / Sonia Ahsan Anticipating discontinuous change : Afghanistan in retrospect and prospect / Robert L. Canfield and Fahim Masoud Adapting to a new political ecology of uncertainties at the margins Badakhshanis since the Saur revolution : struggle, triumph, hope, and uncertainty / M. Nazif Shahrani Hazara civil society activists and local, national, and international political institutions / Melissa Kerr Chiovenda Adapting to three decades of uncertainty : the flexibility of social institutions among Baloch groups in Afghanistan / Just Boedeker Party institutionalization meets women's empowerment? Acquiring power and influence in Afghanistan / Ann Larson Violence, social services delivery, and the rising trust deficit Childbirth and social change in Afghanistan / Kylea Laina Liese Signatures of distrust in contemporary Afghanistan : more than a decade of development effort for vulnerable groups : the case of disability / Parul Bakhshi and Jean-Francois Trani
