Power and Authority in Afghanistan

As a result of a 20-year international military campaign, Afghanistan has been at the centre of global academic and policy debates on intervention and statebuilding. Yet these debates have often been piecemeal, ahistorical and centred in western logics, interests and concerns. This volume provides a new, critical compilation of scholarly contributions from emerging and established Afghan and international scholars that defy these trends. The volume targets a new generation of students and scholars of Afghanistan- a generation looking critically and at the longest military intervention in US history. This is a readership well-attuned to the complexities of the Afghan context and the dilemmas of international engagement more broadly. Beyond criticism of a failed intervention and the often reductive analytical tools that have been used to assess it, the chapters in this collection provide novel epistemological approaches to conceptions of power and authority in Afghanistan. Breaking new ground, Power and Authority gives voice to and consolidates in one volume the first generation of influential Afghan scholars to emerge after forty years and offers them the opportunity to speak with (and back to) those who have come before.>

Préface
A critical and contemporary guide to power and authority in Afghanistan.

Auteur
Anna Larson is an independent analyst and writer. She has worked in Afghanistan since 2004, writing and teaching at SOAS, University of London and Tufts University. Dipali Mukhopadhyay is Associate Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and Vice President of the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies.Omar Sharifi is a President's Postdoctoral Fellow at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota and Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities at the American University of Afghanistan.

Texte du rabat
"This volume provides a critical analysis of power and authority in Afghanistan, and how the conception and practice of these have shifted both historically and over the past twenty years. Contributors examine the deep colonial roots of ethnography, geography and anthropology, and assess the international intervention's influence on power and authority structures"--

Contenu
List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Abbreviations General Maps Introduction: Rethinking Power and Authority in Afghanistan Anna Larson Section 1: Logics of Rule and Institutional (Dis-)Continuities 1. Stability as Strength in the Musahiban Era Thomas Barfield 2. The Taliban, Women and the Hegelian Private Sphere (previously published, 2003) Juan Cole 3. Legitimizing Power in Afghanistan Haroun Rahimi 4. Unlocking the Taliban Puzzle: Traditions and Fundamentalisms Mujib Abid 5. Neopatrimonial Perspectives on Political Structures in Afghanistan Zinab Attai, Maryam Jami and Boshra Moheb 6. Civil-Military Relations, Battlefield Performance, and the Disintegration of Afghanistan's Security Forces Basir Yosufi Section 2: Intervention and its Legacies 7. Ghost Schools: Imperial Debris and the Erasure of Educated Women Marya Hannun 8. Peace Building and State-building in Afghanistan (previously published, 2006) Barnett R Rubin 9. Afghan Subjectivities and U.S. Foreign Policy: Postcolonial Perspectives Nasema Zeerak 10. Leased Power and Vague Authority: The Political Culture and Economy of Rule in Afghanistan Nazif Shahrani 11. Legitimacy by Design Astri Suhrke 12. Brokerage, Business and the Continuities in Power Noah Coburn and Arsalan Noori 13. Power, Ideas, and the 'Taliban 2.0' Myth William Maley Section 3: The Politics of Recognition and Resistance 14. The State, the Clergy, and British Imperial Policy in Afghanistan during the 19th and Early 20th Centuries Senzil Nawid 15. The Pushback against the Hazara Rise in Afghanistan Ali Yarwar Adili 16. Minority Games: Intergroup Power Imbalances in a Nation of Competing Identities Annika Schmeding 17. Inheriting Hegemonic Nobility: Urban Elite Lineage and Legitimacy Adam H. Dehsabzi 18. Failed Democracy in Afghanistan: Rethinking Deliberation and Pluralism Omar Sadr 19. Mujahidin Memory and the Legacies of Wartime Governance in Afghanistan Munazza Ebtikar Afterword Dipali Mukhopadhyay