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Gendering Human Security in Afghanistan - In a Time of Western Intervention (Paperback)
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Gendering Human Security in Afghanistan - In a Time of Western Intervention (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Human Security
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This book employs the concept of human security to show what the
term means from the perspective of women in Afghanistan. It engages
with a well-established debate in academic and policy-making
contexts regarding the utility of human security as a framework for
understanding and redressing conflict. The book argues that this
concept allows the possibility of articulating the substantive
experiences of violence and marginalisation experienced by people
in local settings as well as their own struggles towards a secure
and happy life. In this regard, it goes a long way to making sense
of the complex dynamics of conflict which have confounded Western
policy-makers in their ongoing state-building mission in
Afghanistan. However, despite this inherent potential, the idea of
human security still needs refinement. Crucially, it has benefitted
from critical feminist and critical social theories which provide
the conceptual and methodological depth necessary to apprehend what
a progressive ethical program of security looks like and how it can
be furthered. Using this framework, the work provides a critical
reconstruction of the effect of the US-led Western Intervention on
women's experiences of (in)security in the three provincial
contexts of Nangarhar, Bamiyan and Kabul. This reconstruction is
drawn from a wealth of historical and contemporary sociological
research alongside original fieldwork undertaken in Delhi, India,
during 2011 with women and men from the country's different
communities. This book will be of much interest to students of
human security, state-building, gender politics, war and conflict
studies and IR in general.
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