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Under the Drones - Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands (Hardcover)
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Under the Drones - Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands (Hardcover)
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In the West, media coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan is framed
by military and political concerns, resulting in a simplistic
picture of ageless barbarity, terrorist safe havens, and peoples in
need of either punishment or salvation. Under the Drones looks
beyond this limiting view to investigate real people on the ground,
and to analyze the political, social, and economic forces that
shape their lives. Understanding the complexity of life along the
1,600-mile border between Afghanistan and Pakistan can help America
and its European allies realign their priorities in the region to
address genuine problems, rather than fabricated ones. This volume
explodes Western misunderstandings by revealing a land that abounds
with human agency, perpetual innovation, and vibrant complexity.
Through the work of historians and social scientists, the thirteen
essays here explore the real and imagined presence of the Taliban;
the animated sociopolitical identities expressed through traditions
like Pakistani truck decoration; Sufism's ambivalent position as an
alternative to militancy; the long and contradictory history of
Afghan media; and the simultaneous brutality and potential that
heroin brings to women in the area. Moving past shifting
conceptions of security, the authors expose the West's prevailing
perspective on the region as strategic, targeted, and alarmingly
dehumanizing. Under the Drones is an essential antidote to
contemporary media coverage and military concerns.
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