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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (336 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674064768
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Under the DronesDDC classification:
  • 958.10471
LOC classification:
  • DS357
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction - Shahzad Bashir and Robert D. Crews -- 1. Political Struggles over the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands - Amin Tarzi -- 2. The Transformation of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border - Gilles Dorronsoro -- 3. Religious Revivalism across the Durand Line - Sana Haroon -- 4. Taliban, Real and Imagined - James Caron -- 5. Quandaries of the Afghan Nation - Shah Mahmoud Hanifi -- 6. How Tribal Are the Taliban? - Thomas Ruttig -- 7. Ethnic Minorities in Search of Political Consolidation - Lutz Rzehak -- 8. Red Mosque - Faisal Devji -- 9. Madrasa Statistics Don't Support the Myth - Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das, and Asim Ijaz Khwaja -- 10. Will Sufi Islam Save Pakistan? - Farzana Shaikh -- 11. The Politics of Pashtun and Punjabi Truck Decoration - Jamal J. Elias -- 12. The Afghan Mediascape - Nushin Arbabzadah -- 13. Women and the Drug Trade in Afghanistan - Fariba Nawa -- Epilogue - Shahzad Bashir and Robert D. Crews -- Notes -- Recommended Readings -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: Western media coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan paints 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 real people on the ground, and analyze the political, social, and economic forces that shape their lives.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction - Shahzad Bashir and Robert D. Crews -- 1. Political Struggles over the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands - Amin Tarzi -- 2. The Transformation of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border - Gilles Dorronsoro -- 3. Religious Revivalism across the Durand Line - Sana Haroon -- 4. Taliban, Real and Imagined - James Caron -- 5. Quandaries of the Afghan Nation - Shah Mahmoud Hanifi -- 6. How Tribal Are the Taliban? - Thomas Ruttig -- 7. Ethnic Minorities in Search of Political Consolidation - Lutz Rzehak -- 8. Red Mosque - Faisal Devji -- 9. Madrasa Statistics Don't Support the Myth - Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das, and Asim Ijaz Khwaja -- 10. Will Sufi Islam Save Pakistan? - Farzana Shaikh -- 11. The Politics of Pashtun and Punjabi Truck Decoration - Jamal J. Elias -- 12. The Afghan Mediascape - Nushin Arbabzadah -- 13. Women and the Drug Trade in Afghanistan - Fariba Nawa -- Epilogue - Shahzad Bashir and Robert D. Crews -- Notes -- Recommended Readings -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Western media coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan paints 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 real people on the ground, and analyze the political, social, and economic forces that shape their lives.

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