Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Impact of Four Decades of War and Violence on Afghan
Society and Political Culture / M. Nazif Shahrani
Part I: Technologies of Power—Competing Discourses on National
Identity, Statehood and State Stability
1. Afghanistan: A Turbulent State in Transition / Amin Saikal
2. Afghanistan's "Traditional" Islam in Transition: Deep Roots of
the Taliban Extremism / Bashir Ahmad Ansari
3. Language, Poetry and Identity in Afghanistan: Poetic Texts,
Changing Contexts / Mohammad Omar Sharifi
4. Lineages of the Urban State: Locating Continuity and Change in
Post-2001 Kabul / Khalid Homayun Nadiri and M. Farshid Alemi
Hakimyar
5. Webs and Spiders: Four Decades of Violence, Intervention and
Statehood in Afghanistan (1978-2016) / Timor Sharan
6. Merchant-Warlords: Changing Forms of Leadership in Afghanistan's
Unstable Political Economy / Noah Coburn
7. Borders, Access to Strategic Resources, and Challenges to State
Stability / Ahmad Shayeq Qassem
8. Brought to you by Foreigners, Warlords, and Local Activists: TV
and the Afghan Culture Wars / Wazhmah Osman
Part II: Personal and Collective Identities, Gender Relations,
and Trust Deficit
9. "The War Destroyed Our Society": Masculinity, Violence and
Shifting Cultural Idioms among Afghan Pashtun / Andrea
Chiovenda
10. Engendering the Taliban / Sonia Ahsan
11. Anticipating Discontinuous Change: Afghanistan in Retrospect
and Prospect / Robert L. Canfield and Fahim Masoud
Part III: Adapting to New Political Ecology of Uncertainties at
the Margins
12. Badakhshanis since the Saur Revolution: Struggle, Triumph,
Hope, and Uncertainty / M. Nazif Shahrani
13. Hazara Civil Society Activists and Local, National, and
International Political Institutions / Melissa Kerr Chiovenda
14. Adapting to Three Decades of Uncertainty: The Flexibility of
Social Institutions among Baloch groups in Afghanistan / Just
Boedeker
15. Party Institutionalization Meets Women's Empowerment? Acquiring
Power and Influence in Afghanistan / Ann Larson
Part IV: Violence, Social Services Delivery, and Rising Trust
Deficit
16. Childbirth and Social Change in Afghanistan / Kylea Laina
Liese
17. 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
Index
M. Nazif Shahrani is Professor of Anthropology, Central Eurasian Studies, and Near Eastern Languages and Culture at Indiana University. He is author of The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan: Adaptation to Closed Frontiers and War and editor (with Robert L. Canfield) of Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan: Anthropological Perspectives.
As a broad yet detailed introduction to modern Afghanistan, this interdisciplinary collection of essays on social and political life in Afghanistan over the past 40 years is arguably one of the best available. (American Ethnologist)
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