Beyond the wild tribes understanding modern Afghanistan and its diaspora

Based on a conference of the European Centre of Afghan Studies (ECAS) held on Mar. 3, 2007, at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)

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Main Authors: Oeppen, Ceri (Author), Oeppen, Ceri 1980- (Author), Schlenkhoff, Angela (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Columbia University Press c2010
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Table of Contents:
  • Beyond "The wild tribes": working towards an understanding of contemporary Afghanistan / Ceri Oeppen and Angela Schlenkhoff
  • Challenges to research in Afghanistan and its diaspora / Angela Schlenkhoff
  • Britain in the first two Afghan wars: what can we learn? / Bijan Omrani and Charles Vyvyan
  • The situation of women and girls in Afghanistan / Kathryn Lockett
  • The political economy of normlessness in Afghanistan / Armando Geller
  • Keeping the peace; gender, justice and authority: mechanisms for community based dispute resolution in Afghanistan / Deborah J. Smith
  • Dilemmas of governance in Afghanistan: between patrimonialism and bureaucratisation / Antonio Giustozzi
  • What prevents Afghanistan becoming a landbridge? / Valey Arya
  • The return of the refugee warrior: migration and armed resistance in Herat / Kristian Berg Harpviken
  • The Afghan diaspora and its involvement in the reconstruction of Afghanistan / Ceri Oeppen
  • The circulation of music between Afghanistan and the Afghan diaspora / John Baily
  • Afghan migratory strategies and the three solutions to the refugee problem / Alessandro Monsutti