Under the drones : modern lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan borderlands /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2012.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780674069787 0674069781 9780674064768 0674064763 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Political struggles over the Afghan-Pakistani borderlands / Amin Tarzi
- The transformation of the Afghan-Pakistan border / Gilles Dorronsoro
- Religious revivalism across the Durand Line / Sana Haroon
- Taliban, real and imagined / James Caron
- Quandaries of the Afghan nation / Shah Mahmoud Hanifi
- How tribal are the Taliban? / Thomas Ruttig
- Ethnic minorities in search of political consolidation / Lutz Rzehak
- Red mosque / Faisal Devji
- Madrasa statistics don't support the myth / Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das, and Asim Ijaz Khwaja
- Will Sufi Islam save Pakistan? / Farzana Shaikh
- The politics of Pashtun and Punjabi truck decoration / Jamal J. Elias
- The Afghan mediascape / Nushin Arbabzadah
- Women and the drug trade in Afghanistan / Fariba Nawa.