Homo Itinerans : : Towards a Global Ethnography of Afghanistan / / Alessandro Monsutti.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Monsutti, Alessandro,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (148 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Key Dates -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Reconstructing Afghanistan: Counterinsurgency and Colonial Imaginary -- Chapter 2. The State in All Its States: Elections and Democratization -- Chapter 3. Educating the Elites: From Geneva to Abu Dhabi -- Chapter 4. Rural Development: A Matter of Workshops -- Chapter 5. Village Life: Overlapping Solidarities and Confl icts -- Chapter 6. Neighbouring Countries: Equivocal Refuges -- Chapter 7. Across the Seas: Playing with Categories -- Chapter 8. Greece: The Filter of All Hopes -- Chapter 9. Europe, Mon Amour Or the Ruses of Itinerancy -- Chapter 10. Contested Modernities: A Transnational Anthropology of the Political -- Conclusion -- References -- Index