Power and Authority in Afghanistan

Rethinking Politics, Intervention and Rule

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

AvAnna Larson,Dipali Mukhopadhyay,Omar Sharifi

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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 retrospectively 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-02-20
Mått162 x 238 x 24 mm
Vikt620 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor320
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9780755647484

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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.

List of FiguresList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsGeneral MapsIntroduction: Rethinking Power and Authority in Afghanistan Anna LarsonSection 1: Logics of Rule and Institutional (Dis-)Continuities 1. Stability as Strength in the Musahiban EraThomas Barfield2. The Taliban, Women and the Hegelian Private Sphere (previously published, 2003)Juan Cole3. Legitimizing Power in AfghanistanHaroun Rahimi 4. Unlocking the Taliban Puzzle: Traditions and FundamentalismsMujib Abid5. Neopatrimonial Perspectives on Political Structures in AfghanistanZinab Attai, Maryam Jami and Boshra Moheb6. Civil-Military Relations, Battlefield Performance, and the Disintegration of Afghanistan's Security ForcesBasir YosufiSection 2: Intervention and its Legacies 7. Ghost Schools: Imperial Debris and the Erasure of Educated WomenMarya Hannun8. Peace Building and State-building in Afghanistan (previously published, 2006)Barnett R Rubin9. Afghan Subjectivities and U.S. Foreign Policy: Postcolonial PerspectivesNasema Zeerak10. Leased Power and Vague Authority: The Political Culture and Economy of Rule in Afghanistan Nazif Shahrani11. Legitimacy by DesignAstri Suhrke12. Brokerage, Business and the Continuities in PowerNoah Coburn and Arsalan Noori13. Power, Ideas, and the 'Taliban 2.0' MythWilliam MaleySection 3: The Politics of Recognition and Resistance 14. The State, the Clergy, and British Imperial Policy in Afghanistan during the 19th and Early 20th CenturiesSenzil Nawid15. The Pushback against the Hazara Rise in AfghanistanAli Yarwar Adili16. Minority Games: Intergroup Power Imbalances in a Nation of Competing IdentitiesAnnika Schmeding17. Inheriting Hegemonic Nobility: Urban Elite Lineage and LegitimacyAdam H. Dehsabzi18. Failed Democracy in Afghanistan: Rethinking Deliberation and PluralismOmar Sadr19. Mujahidin Memory and the Legacies of Wartime Governance in AfghanistanMunazza EbtikarAfterwordDipali Mukhopadhyay