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The Carpetbaggers of Kabul and Other American-Afghan Entanglements - Intimate Development, Geopolitics, and the Currency of Gender and Grief (Hardcover)
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The Carpetbaggers of Kabul and Other American-Afghan Entanglements - Intimate Development, Geopolitics, and the Currency of Gender and Grief (Hardcover)
Series: Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
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The 2001 invasion of Afghanistan by United States and coalition
forces was followed by a flood of aid and development dollars and
"experts" representing well over two thousand organisations-each
with separate policy initiatives, geopolitical agendas, and
socioeconomic interests. This book examines the everyday actions of
people associated with this international effort, with a special
emphasis on small players: individuals and groups who charted
alternative paths outside the existing networks of aid and
development. This focus highlights the complexities, complications,
and contradictions at the intersection of the everyday and the
geopolitical, showing how dominant geopolitical narratives
influence daily life in places like Afghanistan-and what happens
when the goals of aid workers or the needs of aid recipients do not
fit the narrative. Specifically, this book examines the use of
gender, "need," and grief as drivers for both common and
exceptional responses to geopolitical interventions. Throughout
this work, Jennifer L. Fluri and Rachel Lehr describe intimate
encounters at a microscale to complicate and dispute the ways in
which Afghans and their country have been imagined, described,
fetishized, politicized, vilified, and rescued. The authors
identify the ways in which Afghan men and women have been narrowly
categorized as perpetrators and victims, respectively. They discuss
several projects to show how gender and grief became forms of
currency that were exchanged for different social, economic, and
political opportunities. Such entanglements suggest the power and
influence of the United States while illustrating the ways in which
individuals and groups have attempted to chart alternative avenues
of interaction, intervention, and interpretation.
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