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Zusatztext Bojan Savic's work on global security is of notable public! scholarly! and political interest. Rooted in local fieldwork on the liminal 'postcolony' Herat! it is a timely contribution to a subject of global concern. Insightful and thought-provoking! Savic engages with the mutual! yet ambivalent co-construction and co-dependence of power and resistance. Populating the field of security studies with Heratis and their experiences of oppression! Afghanistan Under Siege visualises the mechanisms that simultaneously create resistance to! and cooperation with materialisations of power-in-the-name-of-security. The internationally-funded structural violence that is so built into! and borne out of! the geopolitical containment of Afghan bodies underlines the continuing importance of challenging the colonial past in our (post)colonial present. Informationen zum Autor Bojan Savic is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Kent, and Lecturer in Political Science at the Brussels School of International Studies, Brussels, Belgium. Klappentext In this book, based on field work undertaken in Afghanistan itself and through engagement with postcolonial theory, Bojan Savic critiques western intervention in Afghanistan by showing how its casting of Afghan natives as "dangerous" has created a power network which fractures the country - in echoes of 19th and 20th century colonial powers in the region. Savic also offers an analysis of how and by what means global security priorities have affected Afghan lives.A critique of Western intervention in Afghanistan based on frameworks borrowed from 19th and 20th century colonialism. Zusammenfassung In this book, based on field work undertaken in Afghanistan itself and through engagement with postcolonial theory, Bojan Savic critiques western intervention in Afghanistan by showing how its casting of Afghan natives as “dangerous” has created a power network which fractures the country – in echoes of 19th and 20th century colonial powers in the region. Savic also offers an analysis of how and by what means global security priorities have affected Afghan lives. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I: Questions, Who is Addressing Them, and How Chapter 1: Introduction: The Abnormal of the Afghan War on Terror PART II: Why Does Postcolonial Security Care About Herat? Chapter II: Mapping Out Tools of Critique: A Conceptual Framework Chapter III: Spaces and Forces of Pacification and Containment PART III: Power over Heratis and Resistances to It: Three Case Studies Chapter IV: How Pacified Heratis "Milk the Cow": Nonviolent Resistances to Global Security Chapter V: Banished by Culture, Violated in Its Midst: Managing Musalla's Homeless between Minarets, Development, and Security Chapter VI: Experiencing Self as the Periphery: Heratis at the Iranian-Afghan Border PART IV: Conclusion Chapter VII: On Postcolonial Power Equilibria Index ...
