Under the Drones - Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands

Informationen zum Autor Shahzad Bashir is Lysbeth Warren Anderson Professor in Islamic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University. Robert D. Crews is Associate Professor of History at Stanford University. Amin Tarzi is the Director of Middle East Studies, Marine Corps University. Faisal Devji is Reader in Indian History and Fellow of St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford. Jamal J. Elias is Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Klappentext Western media coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan paints a simplistic picture of ageless barbarity! terrorist safe havens! and peoples in need of either punishment or salvation. Under the Drones looks beyond this limiting view to investigate real people on the ground! and analyze the political! social! and economic forces that shape their lives. Zusammenfassung Western media coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan paints a simplistic picture of ageless barbarity! terrorist safe havens! and peoples in need of either punishment or salvation. Under the Drones looks beyond this limiting view to investigate real people on the ground! and analyze the political! social! and economic forces that shape their lives.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Shahzad Bashir, Shahzad Crews Bashir, Robert D. Crews
• Mitarbeit: Shahzad Bashir (Herausgeber), Bashir Shahzad (Herausgeber), Robert D. Crews (Herausgeber), Crews Robert D. (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 04.05.2012
• EAN: 9780674065611
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06561-1
• Seiten: 336
• Abmessung: 146 mm x 217 mm x 23 mm
• Themen: Sachbuch; Afghanistan : Politik, Zeitgeschichte, Pakistan : Politik, Zeitgeschichte, Pakistan, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, Politics & government, Politics and government, Society and culture: general