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Author Savic, Bojan

Title Afghanistan under Siege : the Afghan Body and the Postcolonial Border / Bojan Savic
Published London : I.B. Tauris & Company, Limited, 2020
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Description 1 online resource ( 265 pages)
Contents Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1: Questions, Who Is Addressing Them and How -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Abnormal of the Afghan War on Terror -- The Troublesome Herati Subject -- Herat at the Limit: Between the Postcolonial Frontier and Security Unbound -- Herat at the Limit: Between Afghanistan and Iran, Pashtunistan and Persia, Sunnis and Shias -- Herat at the Limit: Between Peace and Resistance on the Frontier -- Global Stability in Herat -- Critiques of Security in Afghanistan and Herat
Herati Encounters of Class, Race and Geography: Seeing Like the Subject -- The Roadmap -- Part 2: Why Does Postcolonial Security Care about Herat? -- Chapter 2: Mapping Out Tools of Critique: A Conceptual Framework -- Introduction: Governing the Ungovernable -- Strategies of Power -- Strategies of Sovereign, Disciplinary and Governmental Power -- The Body and Power: The Many Axes of Afghan Vulnerabilities -- Conduits of Power: Security Apparatuses and Uncertainty -- Postcolonial Power and the Afghan Body -- Government through Experimentation
Nonviolent Everyday Resistance: Power as Power Struggle -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Spaces and Forces of Pacification and Containment -- Introduction -- Brown Bodies and Lands: Violent, Dirty, Fantastic and Risky -- Representations of Afghanistan: Background and Proximate, from Instability to Filth -- Background and Proximate: Imaginations of Heratas Decline and Risk -- The Global Defining Itself as Imperilled -- Who Is At Risk and What Must Be Defended? -- Afghans in Global Security: The Necessary Threat -- Heratis at Risk -- Whose Risk Matters?
Three Sets of Apparatuses: Governing through Spatial Enmeshments -- Security Apparatuses and Experimentality -- The Rationality of Government through Experimentation -- Conclusion: Herati Hearts and Minds -- Part 3: Power over Heratis and Resistances to It: Three Case Studies -- Chapter 4: How Pacified Heratis 'Milk the Cow': Nonviolent Resistances to Global Security -- Introduction -- Herat at the Limit of Power and Resistance -- Ambivalence in Herat -- Ambivalent Employment as Counter-exploitationof Security Governance -- Ambivalent Resistances through Knowledge and Skills -- Conclusion
Chapter 5: Banished by Culture, Violated in Its Midst: Managing Musalla's Homeless between Minarets, Development and Security -- Introduction -- The 'Otherness' of the Homeless and the Study of It -- 'What is Splendour?' Culture as Population Management -- 'Police' in the Study of Afghan Law Enforcement's Managementof Musalla -- The Cultural Apparatus and the Cultivation of Splendour -- Musalla and 'Its' Homeless: Visible Neglect -- How Do Visible Misery and Violence, and Invisible Pain Work? -- Three Questions -- Patterns of Representation of Musalla's Homeless and the Conditions of Their Pain
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes 'Better Not Talk to Them': Pathologizing Musalla's Homeless
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 21, 2020)
Subject Postwar reconstruction -- Afghanistan
Economic development -- Political aspects -- Afghanistan
SUBJECT Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 2001-
Form Electronic book
Author Bloomsbury (Firm)
ISBN 9781788317931
1788317939
9781788317955
1788317955
9781788317948
1788317947