هُمو ایتیران: به سوی قوم‌نگاری جهانی افغانستان

"Afghan society has been marked in a lasting way by war and the exodus of part of its population. While many have emigrated to countries across the world, they have been matched by the flow of experts who arrive in Afghanistan after having been in other war-torn countries such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Palestine or East Timor. This book builds on more than two decades of ethnographic travels in some twenty countries, bringing the readers from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran to Europe, North America and Australia. It describes the everyday life and transnational circulations of Afghan refugees and expatriates"-- Provided by publisher Homo Itinerans 2 Contents 8 Preface 10 Acknowledgements 12 Key Dates 13 Introduction 18 Chapter 1 — Reconstructing Afghanistan: Counterinsurgency and Colonial Imaginary 25 Chapter 2 — The State in All Its States: Elections and Democratization 36 Chapter 3 — Educating the Elites: From Geneva to Abu Dhabi 46 Chapter 4 — Rural Development: A Matter of Workshops 55 Chapter 5 — Village Life: Overlapping Solidarities and Conflicts 66 Chapter 6 — Neighbouring Countries: Equivocal Refuges 76 Chapter 7 — Across the Seas: Playing with Categories 86 Chapter 8 — Greece: The Filter of All Hopes 97 Chapter 9 — Europe, Mon Amour: Or the Ruses of Itinerancy 109 Chapter 10 — Contested Modernities: A Transnational Anthropology of the Political 119 Conclusion 131 References 136 Index 142 This book builds on more than two decades of ethnographic itinerancy in some twenty countries, bringing the readers from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran to Europe, North America and Australia. It describes the everyday life and transnational circulations of Afghan refugees and expatriates.