Modern Afghanistan : the impact of 40 years of war /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors:	Shahrani, M. Nazif Mohib, 1945- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]
Subjects:	Afghanistan > Social conditions > 20th century. Afghanistan > Social conditions > 21st century. Violence > Afghanistan. Political stability > Afghanistan. Afghanistan > Politics and government > 20th century. Afghanistan > Politics and government > 21st century. 1900-2099 Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction : the impact of four decades of war and violence on afghan society and political culture / Nazif Shahrani
Technologies of power-competing discourses on national identity, statehood, and state stability
Afghanistan : a turbulent state in transition / Amin Saikal
Afghanistan's "traditional" Islam in transition : the deep roots of Taliban extremism / Bashir Ahmad Ansari
Language, poetry, and identity in Afghanistan : poetic texts, changing contexts / Mohammad Omar Sharifi
Lineages of the urban state : locating continuity and change in post-2001 Kabul / Khalid Homayun Nadiri and M. Farshid Alemi Hakimyar
Webs and spiders : four decades of violence, intervention, and statehood in Afghanistan (1978-2016) / Timor Sharan
Merchant-warlords : changing forms of leadership in Afghanistan's unstable political economy / Noah Coburn
Borders, access to strategic resources, and challenges to state stability / Ahmad Shayeq Qassem
Brought to you by foreigners, warlords, and local activists : TV and the Afghan culture wars / Wazhmah Osman
Personal and collective identities, gender relations, and the trust deficit
"The war destroyed our society" : masculinity, violence, and shifting cultural idioms among Afghan Pashtun / Andrea Chiovenda
Engendering the Taliban / Sonia Ahsan
Anticipating discontinuous change : Afghanistan in retrospect and prospect / Robert L. Canfield and Fahim Masoud
Adapting to a new political ecology of uncertainties at the margins
Badakhshanis since the Saur revolution : struggle, triumph, hope, and uncertainty / M. Nazif Shahrani
Hazara civil society activists and local, national, and international political institutions / Melissa Kerr Chiovenda
Adapting to three decades of uncertainty : the flexibility of social institutions among Baloch groups in Afghanistan / Just Boedeker
Party institutionalization meets women's empowerment? Acquiring power and influence in Afghanistan / Ann Larson
Violence, social services delivery, and the rising trust deficit
Childbirth and social change in Afghanistan / Kylea Laina Liese
Signatures of distrust in contemporary Afghanistan : more than a decade of development effort for vulnerable groups : the case of disability / Parul Bakhshi and Jean-Francois Trani.