"Globalizing Afghanistan" offers a kaleidoscopic view of
Afghanistan and the global networks of power, influence, and
representation in which it is immersed. The military and
nation-building interventions initiated by the United States in
reaction to the events of September 11, 2001, are the background
and motivation for this collection, but they are not the immediate
subject of the essays. Seeking to understand the events of the past
decade in a broad frame, the contributors draw on cultural and
postcolonial approaches to provide new insights into this ongoing
conflict. They focus on matters such as the implications of
Afghanistan's lucrative opium trade, the links between the
contemporary Taliban movement and major events in the Islamic world
and Central Asia since the early twentieth century, and
interactions between transnational feminist organizations and the
Afghan women's movement. Several contributors address questions of
representation. One looks at portrayals of Afghan women by the U.S.
government and Western media and feminists. Another explores the
surprisingly prominent role of Iranian filmmaking in the production
of a global cinematic discourse about Afghanistan. A Pakistani
journalist describes how coverage of Afghanistan by reporters
working from Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa (formerly the North
West Frontier Province) has changed over the past decade. This rich
panoply of perspectives on Afghanistan concludes with a reflection
on how academics might produce meaningful alternative viewpoints on
the exercise of American power abroad.
"Contributors." Gwen Bergner, Maliha Chishti, Cheshmak
Farhoumand-Sims, Nigel C. Gibson, Zubeda Jalalzai, David Jefferess,
Altaf Ullah Khan, Kamran Rastegar, Rodney J. Steward, Imre
Szeman
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