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

Under the Drones : : Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands / / Shahzad Bashir, Robert D Crews.

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In the West, media coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan is framed by military and political concerns, resulting in 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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2012
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Bashir, Shahzad,
Crews, Robert D,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 9 halftones, 3 line illustrations, 2 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Political Struggles over the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands
  • 2. The Transformation of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border
  • 3. Religious Revivalism across the Durand Line
  • 4. Taliban, Real and Imagined
  • 5. Quandaries of the Afghan Nation
  • 6. How Tribal Are the Taliban?
  • 7. Ethnic Minorities in Search of Political Consolidation
  • 8. Red Mosque
  • 9. Madrasa Statistics Don't Support the Myth
  • 10. Will Sufi Islam Save Pakistan?
  • 11. The Politics of Pashtun and Punjabi Truck Decoration
  • 12. The Afghan Mediascape
  • 13. Women and the Drug Trade in Afghanistan
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Recommended Readings
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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