Decolonizing Afghanistan : Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power

doi:10.1215/9781478061427

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Osman, Wazhmah (editor)

Crews, Robert D. (editor)

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English

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Abstract

Decolonizing Afghanistan examines how Afghan communities have subverted, resisted, and participated in colonial projects from the early twentieth century to the present, with a particular focus on the US intervention that began in 2001.

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https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/108173

Keywords

decoloniality; empire; knowledge production; racism; imperialism; propaganda; representation; colonialism; great game; graveyard of empires; disease; Afghanistan; Orientalism; Soviet Union; Soviet-Afghan War; imperial branding; development; human rights; war violence; impunity; US militarism; private security; political settlements; state building; neo-patrimonialism; Islamophobia; Afghan women’s rights; Afghan modernity; Afghan primitivism; Afghan temporalities; Taliban; Global War on Terror; Information Warfare; Afghan Diaspora; collective trauma of violence; short fiction; past and present; Mujahidin; documentary photography; performance art; poetry; military industrial complex; foreign policy; Surveillance technology; biometric identification; data sovereignty; Hearts and Minds; counter-narrative; Turkestan; Internal Colonialism; Settlers; Uzbek; Turkmen