Globalizing Afghanistan: Terrorism, War, and the Rhetoric of Nation Building

229 Pages·2011·1.422 MB·English

by  Zubeda Jalalzai, David Jefferess

Globalizing Afghanistan
American Encounters/Global Interactions
A series edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Emily S. Rosenberg

GLOBALIZING
AFGHANISTAN
Terrorism, War, and the Rhetoric of Nation Building
Edited by Zubeda Jalalzai & David Jefferess
Duke University Press Durham & London 2011
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For my parents
Abdur Raheem & Amina Jalalzai
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American Encounters/Global Interactions
A series edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Emily S. Rosenberg
This series aims to stimulate critical perspectives and fresh
interpretive frameworks for scholarship on the history of the
imposing global presence of the United States. Its primary
concerns include the deployment and contestation of power,
the construction and deconstruction of cultural and politi-
cal borders, the fluid meanings of intercultural encounters,
and the complex interplay between the global and the local.
American Encounters seeks to strengthen dialogue and col-
laboration between historians of U.S. international relations
and area studies specialists.
The series encourages scholarship based on multiarchival
historical research. At the same time, it supports a recogni-
tion of the representational character of all stories about the
past and promotes critical inquiry into issues of subjectivity
and narrative. In the process, American Encounters strives to
understand the context in which meanings related to nations,
cultures, and political economy are continually produced,
challenged, and reshaped.
Contents
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Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction: Globalizing Afghanistan
Zubeda Jalalzai & David Jefferess
1
It’s the Opium, Stupid
Afghanistan, Globalization, and Drugs
Nigel C. Gibson
31
Afghanistan in a Globalized World
A Longer View
Rodney J. Steward
51
The ‘‘Afghan Beat’’
Pukhtoon Journalism and the Afghan War
Altaf Ullah Khan
79
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Veiled Motives
Women’s Liberation and the War in Afghanistan
Gwen Bergner
95
Transnational Feminism and the Women’s Rights
Agenda in Afghanistan
Maliha Chishti & Cheshmak Farhoumand-Sims
117
Global Frames on Afghanistan
The Iranian Mediation of Afghanistan in International
Art House Cinema after September 11, 2001
Kamran Rastegar
145
Conclusion: The Current Amazement
Afghanistan, Terror, and Theory
Imre Szeman
165
Bibliography
187
Contributors
201
Index
205
Acknowledgments
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We first conceptualized Globalizing Afghanistan in 2002 as the theme for
Rhode Island College’s October Series, an annual art, film, and lecture se-
ries of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. We would like to thank all of those
who helped to bring issues of globalization and Afghanistan to the fore at
that critical historical moment. For this opportunity I thank Rhode Island
College and in particular the Rhode Island College Foundation, the School
of Arts and Sciences, the College Lectures Committee, the Committee on
General Education, the Bannister Gallery, the Artists’ Co-op, the Depart-
ments of Anthropology, Art, English, History, Political Science, and Sociol-
ogy, and the Film Studies Program for financial as well as creative support. I
thank my colleagues Paola Ferrario, Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Richard Lob-
ban, Spencer Hall, Claus Hofhansel, Donna Kelly, Laura Khoury, Marlene
Lopes, Eung-Jun Min, Dan Moos, Dennis O’Malley, Katherine Rudolph-
Larrea, Robert Shein, Amritjit Singh, Claudia Springer, Bryan Steinberg,
and Dave Thomas for helping to bring the series into being. For her
administrative support I am greatly indebted to Bernadette Doyle. Most of
all I would like to thank the dean of arts and sciences at that time, Richard
Weiner, for not only supporting this October Series but for establishing the
series in the first place. His tenure as dean did much to encourage faculty