Imagining Afghanistan : the history and politics of imperial knowledge /

Imagining Afghanistan : the history and politics of imperial knowledge /

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Author / Creator:	Manchanda, Nivi, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020. ©2020
Description:	xi, 251 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Knowledge, Theory of -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History. Knowledge, Theory of -- Political aspects -- United States -- History. Public opinion -- Great Britain. Public opinion -- United States. Imperialism. Education. Imperialism. Knowledge, Theory of -- Political aspects. Public opinion. Public opinion, American. Public opinion, British. Afghanistan -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain. Afghanistan -- Study and teaching -- United States. Afghanistan -- Foreign public opinion, British. Afghanistan -- Foreign public opinion, American. Afghanistan. Great Britain. United States. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12409379

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ISBN:	9781108491235 1108491235 9781108811767 1108811760 9781108867986 9781108865166
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Over time and across different genres, Afghanistan has been presented to the world as potential ally, dangerous enemy, gendered space, and mysterious locale. These powerful, if competing, visions seek to make sense of Afghanistan and to render it legible. In this innovate examination, Nivi Manchanda uncovers and critically explores Anglophone practices of knowledge cultivation and representational strategies and argues that Afghanistan occupies a distinctive place in the imperial imagination: over-determined and under-theorised, owing largely to the particular history of imperial intervention in the region. Focusing on representations of gender, state and tribes, Manchanda re-historicises and de-mythologises the study of Afghanistan through a sustained critique of colonial forms of knowing and demonstrates how the development of pervasive tropes in Western conceptions of Afghanistan have enabled Western intervention, invasion and bombing in the region from the nineteenth century to the present"--
Other form:	Online version: Manchanda, Nivi, 1988- Imagining Afghanistan 1. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020. 9781108867986

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Summary:	Over time and across different genres, Afghanistan has been presented to the world as potential ally, dangerous enemy, gendered space, and mysterious locale. These powerful, if competing, visions seek to make sense of Afghanistan and to render it legible. In this innovative examination, Nivi Manchanda uncovers and critically explores Anglophone practices of knowledge cultivation and representational strategies, and argues that Afghanistan occupies a distinctive place in the imperial imagination: over-determined and under-theorised, owing largely to the particular history of imperial intervention in the region. Focusing on representations of gender, state and tribes, Manchanda re-historicises and de-mythologises the study of Afghanistan through a sustained critique of colonial forms of knowing and demonstrates how the development of pervasive tropes in Western conceptions of Afghanistan have enabled Western intervention, invasion and bombing in the region from the nineteenth century to the present.
Physical Description:	xi, 251 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781108491235 1108491235 9781108811767 1108811760 9781108867986 9781108865166