Book contents
- Imagining Afghanistan
- Imagining Afghanistan
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Construction of Afghanistan as a ‘Discursive Regime’
- 2 A Space Contested, or the ‘State’ of Afghanistan
- 3 The Emergency Episteme of the ‘Tribe’ in Afghanistan
- 4 Framed
- 5 Subversive Identities
- Coda
- References
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 June 2020
Book contents
- Imagining Afghanistan
- Imagining Afghanistan
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Construction of Afghanistan as a ‘Discursive Regime’
- 2 A Space Contested, or the ‘State’ of Afghanistan
- 3 The Emergency Episteme of the ‘Tribe’ in Afghanistan
- 4 Framed
- 5 Subversive Identities
- Coda
- References
- Index
Summary
The introductory chapter introduces the main questions that animate the book as a whole. It has a section on methods and a discussion of the theoretical and methodological traditions the book draws on. It elaborates on the stakes in construing Afghanistan as an ‘interve+G6nable object’. It uses an image of a textbook used in Afghanistan in the 1980s to show how knowledge about Afghanitan is produced and packaged and how it circulates around the world.
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- Imagining AfghanistanThe History and Politics of Imperial Knowledge, pp. 1 - 22Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020