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The carpetbaggers of Kabul and other American-Afghan entanglements : intimate development, geopolitics, and the currency of gender and grief / Jennifer L. Fluri, Rachel Lehr.
Author
Fluri, Jennifer L.
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]
Description
xv, 165 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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DS371.415 .F55 2017
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Subject(s)
Afghan War, 2001-2021
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Civilian relief
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Postwar reconstruction
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Afghanistan
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Geopolitics
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Afghanistan
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Afghanistan
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Politics and government
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2001-2021
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Afghanistan
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History
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2001-2021
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Author
Lehr, Rachel, 1945-
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Series
Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 31.
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Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 31
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Summary note
"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 organizations--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."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-160) and index.
Contents
The carpetbaggers of Kabul
Gender and grief currency
"Conscientiously chic" : the production and consumption of Afghan women's liberation
"We should be eating the grant, but the grant eats us"
"Saving" Soraya
"Our hearts break" : 9/11 deaths, Afghan lives, and intimate intervention
Gender currency and the development of wealth.
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ISBN
9780820350349 ((hbk. ; : alk. paper))
0820350346
9780820350356 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
0820350354
LCCN
2016031854
OCLC
962852955
Other standard number
40026692431
99973365855
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