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Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power

by Wazhmah Osman

Afghanistan, empire, and the politics of knowledge

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Afghanistan, empire, and the politics of knowledge

This edited collection examines how imperial power has shaped Afghanistan’s past and present, while foregrounding ways Afghan communities have resisted, negotiated, and participated in colonial projects. Its scope runs from the early twentieth century to the present, with particular attention to the US intervention beginning in 2001. Across chapters, contributors connect the stories told about Afghanistan to the forms of governance those narratives have helped legitimize. The subjects range from the US “Forever” War and private security contracting to surveillance technologies, countermedia, gender discourse, and Afghan American mobilization. The collection also places these discussions in relation to wider anticolonial struggles and considers possibilities for decolonial futures.

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  • Readers interested in Afghan history and contemporary politics.
  • Those studying empire, colonialism, and anticolonial movements.
  • Readers exploring media, surveillance, gender, or Afghan American identity in relation to US intervention.

Themes

Empire and colonial powerKnowledge, narratives, and governanceAfghan resistance and participationSurveillance and countermediaAnticolonial struggle and decolonial futures

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Book overview

As the first comprehensive volume to explore the impact of empire on Afghanistan's past and present, Decolonizing Afghanistan marks a decolonial turn in Afghanistan and American studies. Featuring new and often sidelined ground-up perspectives, this collection examines how Afghan communities have subverted, resisted, and participated in colonial projects from the early twentieth century to the present, with a particular focus on the US intervention that began in 2001. Contributors interrogate the relationship between knowledge and power to analyze how narratives about Afghanistan have framed and legitimated imperial governance. Topics span the contradictions and consequences of the US "Forever" War, the rise of private security contracting, the deployment of biometric and surveillance technologies, the politics of US and Taliban countermedia operations, the evolution of gender discourses, and the mobilization of Afghan Americans and "Afghan culture," among others. Throughout, contributors draw important connections and insights to ongoing global anticolonial struggles and offer paths to decolonial futures.

Contributors. Matthieu Aikins, Dawood Azami, Purnima Bose, Paula Chakravartty, Robert D. Crews, Marya Hannun, Ali Karimi, Nivi Manchanda, Sabauon Nasseri, Tausif Noor, Wazhmah Osman, Hosai Qasmi, Zohra Saed, Gazelle Samizay, Morwari Zafar, Helena Zeweri
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