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Under the Drones : Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands / Shahzad Bashir, Robert D Crews.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) : 9 halftones, 3 line illustrations, 2 mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674065611
  • 9780674064768
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 958.10471
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Political Struggles over the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands -- 2. The Transformation of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border -- 3. Religious Revivalism across the Durand Line -- 4. Taliban, Real and Imagined -- 5. Quandaries of the Afghan Nation -- 6. How Tribal Are the Taliban? -- 7. Ethnic Minorities in Search of Political Consolidation -- 8. Red Mosque -- 9. Madrasa Statistics Don't Support the Myth -- 10. Will Sufi Islam Save Pakistan? -- 11. The Politics of Pashtun and Punjabi Truck Decoration -- 12. The Afghan Mediascape -- 13. Women and the Drug Trade in Afghanistan -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Recommended Readings -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Political Struggles over the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands -- 2. The Transformation of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border -- 3. Religious Revivalism across the Durand Line -- 4. Taliban, Real and Imagined -- 5. Quandaries of the Afghan Nation -- 6. How Tribal Are the Taliban? -- 7. Ethnic Minorities in Search of Political Consolidation -- 8. Red Mosque -- 9. Madrasa Statistics Don't Support the Myth -- 10. Will Sufi Islam Save Pakistan? -- 11. The Politics of Pashtun and Punjabi Truck Decoration -- 12. The Afghan Mediascape -- 13. Women and the Drug Trade in Afghanistan -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Recommended Readings -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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