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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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Details
- 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
- 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
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 31Geographies 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