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

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 boo...

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Hauptverfasser: Fluri, Jennifer L. (VerfasserIn), Lehr, Rachel 1945- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Athens, Georgia The University of Georgia Press [2017]
Schriftenreihe:Geographies of justice and social transformation 31
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xv, 165 Seiten
ISBN:9780820350349
9780820350356