Gender and international aid in Afghanistan; the politics and effects of intervention.

9780786445196

Gender and international aid in Afghanistan; the politics and effects of intervention.

Abirafeh, Lina.

McFarland & Co.

2009

224 pages

$39.95

Paperback

HQ1236

Having long studied and worked with Afghan women, aid and development worker Abirafeh takes them as a case study for investigating the impact of intervention by the West. She examines policy texts and media discourses, and analyzes program practice drawing on the perspectives of policy makers and policy implementers. She then weighs those findings against perspectives and experiences of women and men in Afghanistan eight years into the reconstruction of the country. Her topics include discourses on chaddari politics, transplanting democracy, Afghaniyat and the gender order, violence in the aftermath, and insecurities and ideological occupations.

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