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The carpetbaggers of Kabul and other American-Afghan entanglements : intimate development, geopolitics, and the currency of gender and grief

Title
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.
Publication
  • Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
Lehr, Rachel, 1945-
Description
xv, 165 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
"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."--
Series Statement
Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 31
Uniform Title
Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 31.
Subject
  • Since 2001
  • Afghan War, 2001-2021 > Civilian relief
  • Postwar reconstruction > Afghanistan
  • Geopolitics > Afghanistan
  • Afghan War, 2001-2021
  • Civilian war relief
  • Geopolitics
  • Politics and government
  • Postwar reconstruction
  • Afghanistan > Politics and government > 2001-2021
  • Afghanistan > History > 2001-2021
  • Afghanistan
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-160) and index.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The carpetbaggers of Kabul -- Chapter 3. Gender and grief currency -- Chapter 4. "Conscientiously chic" : the production and consumption of Afghan women's liberation -- Chapter 5. "We should be eating the grant, but the grant eats us" -- Chapter 6. "Saving" Soraya -- Chapter 7. "Our hearts break" : 9/11 deaths, Afghan lives, and intimate intervention -- Chapter 8. Gender currency and the development of wealth.
Call Number
JFE 17-443
ISBN
  • 9780820350349
  • 0820350346
  • 9780820350356
  • 0820350354
LCCN
  • 2016031854
  • 40026692431
OCLC
962852955
Author
Fluri, Jennifer L., author.
Title
The carpetbaggers of Kabul and other American-Afghan entanglements : intimate development, geopolitics, and the currency of gender and grief / Jennifer L. Fluri, Rachel Lehr.
Publisher
Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]
Copyright Date
©2017
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 31
Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 31.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-160) and index.
Chronological Term
Since 2001
Added Author
Lehr, Rachel, 1945- author.
Other Standard Identifier
40026692431
Research Call Number
JFE 17-443
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