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A New Politics of Heritage Reconstruction in Afghanistan

Author : Constance Wyndham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781003439028
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book A New Politics of Heritage Reconstruction in Afghanistan written by Constance Wyndham and published by . This book was released on 2023-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A New Politics of Heritage Reconstruction in Afghanistan investigates the politics of cultural heritage preservation in Afghanistan between 2008 and 2015. Based on several periods of ethnographic fieldwork and the author's direct employment on several internationally-sponsored heritage projects, this book studies the new and complex intersections between cultural heritage and politics in Afghanistan. Wyndham argues that a particular configuration of heritage and politics has emerged after the destruction of the Buddhas at Bamyan and demonstrates how the characteristics of this 'post-Bamyan' heritage paradigm are revealed through a number of case studies of internationally sponsored heritage work. These case studies reveal how politics and heritage are currently configured across a diverse range of governments, state and non-state actors, NGOs, individuals and forms of expertise-and why such intersections matter. The book responds to a call from across the discipline of Heritage Studies to look more closely at the relationships between heritage, power and politics. A New Politics of Heritage Reconstruction in Afghanistan provides a fascinating case study on the intersection of heritage and politics that will be of interest to students and scholars of heritage, as well as to professionals working on heritage preservation - both within and outside of government"--

A New Politics of Heritage Reconstruction in Afghanistan

Author : Constance Wyndham
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003831761
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book A New Politics of Heritage Reconstruction in Afghanistan written by Constance Wyndham and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Politics of Heritage Reconstruction in Afghanistan investigates the politics of cultural heritage preservation in Afghanistan between 2008 and 2015. Based on several periods of ethnographic fieldwork and the author’s direct employment on several internationally-sponsored heritage projects, this book studies the new and complex intersections between cultural heritage and politics in Afghanistan. Wyndham argues that a particular configuration of heritage and politics has emerged after the destruction of the Buddhas at Bamyan and demonstrates how the characteristics of this ‘post-Bamyan’ heritage paradigm are revealed through a number of case studies of internationally sponsored heritage work. These case studies reveal how politics and heritage are currently configured across a diverse range of governments, state and non-state actors, NGOs, individuals and forms of expertise—and why such intersections matter. The book responds to a call from across the discipline of Heritage Studies to look more closely at the relationships between heritage, power and politics. A New Politics of Heritage Reconstruction in Afghanistan provides a fascinating case study on the intersection of heritage and politics that will be of interest to students and scholars of heritage, as well as to professionals working on heritage preservation - both within and outside of government.

Beyond Reconstruction in Afghanistan

Author : J. Montgomery
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403981175
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Reconstruction in Afghanistan written by J. Montgomery and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-04-23 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interaction of failed states, terrorism and the need for 'nation building' is at the top of the international agenda, with particular focus on Afghanistan and Iraq. This path breaking collection brings together top analysts to examine the goals and challenges facing efforts to reconstruct states that have collapsed into anarchy or have been defeated in war. Drawing on lessons from 50 years of past experience with post-conflict reconstruction and development around the world, the authors provide historical context, identify difficulties that can impede progress and recognize the realistic limitations of ambitions to create new states. They assess ongoing development plans in a country devastated by more than a century of conflict. Throughout, particular attention is paid to the interaction of the goals of external and domestic actors, highlighting the importance of understanding the internal social, economic and political environment of the society receiving assistance.

Afghanistan

Author : Micheline Centlivres-Demont
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857735810
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Afghanistan written by Micheline Centlivres-Demont and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-13 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last three decades Afghanistan has been plagued by crisis - from Soviet invasion in 1979 and Taliban rule to US invasion following the events of 9/11. Here the top specialists on Afghanistan, including Olivier Roy, Ahmad Rashid and Jonathan Goodhand, provide a unique overview of the evolution, causes and future of the Afghan crisis. Covering political and military events and examining the role of ethnic groups, religious and ideological factors and the role of the leaders and war chiefs of the period - from the anti-Soviet resistance to the presidency of Hamid Karzai - this book will prove essential reading to all interested in Afghanistan and the wider Middle East region. Examining recent events in the light of the country's economy, Afghan civil society, cultural heritage and state reconstruction attempts, this is a comprehensive and diverse look at a country whose recent history has been marked by internal conflicts and foreign intervention.

Fundamentalism Reborn?

Author : William Maley
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814755860
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Fundamentalism Reborn? written by William Maley and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays tracing the rebirth of fundamentalism in Afghanistan In 1996, the world watched with varying degrees of interest, surprise, and unease as armed, ultra-fundamentalist insurgents overthrew the Afghan government. Within days of their victory, the Taliban, a militant Islamic sect, were issuing draconian religious decrees, restricting women's employment and movement, rounding up Afghans at gunpoint to pray five times a day, and publicly executing political opponents and criminals. Composed of essays commissioned from the foremost experts on the Taliban, this anthology traces the movement's origins, its ascendance, the reasons for its success, and its role in the reconstruction of Afghanistan. Crucial to the Taliban's staying power as a governing force will be its relations with neighboring countries and with the West. Interestingly, given their intense hatred of Iran, the Taliban were enthusiastically supported by the U.S. government up to the very moment of their triumphant arrival in Kabul. Examining yet another country on the brink of ethnic disintegration, Fundamentalism Reborn? is a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the history, rise to power, and future of the most dramatic manifestation of Islamic fundamentalism since the Iranian revolution.

Afghanistan

Author : Thomas Barfield
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400834538
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Afghanistan written by Thomas Barfield and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-29 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major history of Afghanistan and its changing political culture Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence today. Thomas Barfield introduces readers to the bewildering diversity of tribal and ethnic groups in Afghanistan, explaining what unites them as Afghans despite the regional, cultural, and political differences that divide them. He shows how governing these peoples was relatively easy when power was concentrated in a small dynastic elite, but how this delicate political order broke down in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when Afghanistan's rulers mobilized rural militias to expel first the British and later the Soviets. Armed insurgency proved remarkably successful against the foreign occupiers, but it also undermined the Afghan government's authority and rendered the country ever more difficult to govern as time passed. Barfield vividly describes how Afghanistan's armed factions plunged the country into a civil war, giving rise to clerical rule by the Taliban and Afghanistan's isolation from the world. He examines why the American invasion in the wake of September 11 toppled the Taliban so quickly, and how this easy victory lulled the United States into falsely believing that a viable state could be built just as easily. Afghanistan is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how a land conquered and ruled by foreign dynasties for more than a thousand years became the "graveyard of empires" for the British and Soviets, and what the United States must do to avoid a similar fate.

Museums, Heritage and International Development

Author : Paul Basu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113508520X
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Museums, Heritage and International Development written by Paul Basu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many claims are made regarding the power of cultural heritage as a driver and enabler of sustainable development, the relationship between museums, heritage and development has received little academic scrutiny. This book stages a critical conversation between the interdisciplinary fields of museum studies, heritage studies and development studies to explore this under-researched sphere of development intervention. In an agenda-setting introduction, the editors explore the seemingly oppositional temporalities and values represented by these "past-making" and "future-making" projects, arguing that these provide a framework for mutual critique. Contributors to the volume bring insights from a wide range of academic and practitioner perspectives on a series of international case studies, which each raise challenging questions that reach beyond merely cultural concerns and fully engage with both the legacies of colonial power inequalities and the shifting geopolitical dynamics of contemporary international relations. Cultural heritage embodies different values and can be instrumentalized to serve different economic, social and political objectives within development contexts, but the past is also intrinsic to the present and is foundational to people’s aspirations for the future. Museums, Heritage and International Development explores the problematics as well as potentials, the politics as well as possibilities, in this fascinating nexus.

From the Past and For the Future

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9231000934
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book From the Past and For the Future written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-10 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Building a New Afghanistan

Author : Robert I. Rotberg
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815775652
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Building a New Afghanistan written by Robert I. Rotberg and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2007-08-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the Taliban nightmare, Afghanistan must tackle serious problems before it can emerge as a confident, independent nation. Security in this battered state continues to deteriorate; suicide bombings, convoy ambushes, and insurgent attacks are all too common. Effective state building will depend upon eliminating the national security crisis and enhancing the rule of law. This book offers a blueprint for moving the embattled nation toward greater democracy and prosperity. Robert Rotberg and his colleagues argue that the future success of state building in Afghanistan depends on lessening its dependence on opium and enhancing its economic status. Many of Afghanistan's security problems are related to poppy growing, opium and heroin production, and drug trafficking. Building a New Afghanistan suggests controversial new alternatives to immediate eradication, which is foolish and counter-productive. These options include monetary incentives for growing wheat, a viable local crop. Greater wheat production would feed hungry Afghans while reducing narco-trafficking and the terror that comes with it. Integrating this land-locked country into the Central Asia or greater Eurasia economy would open up trading partnerships with its northern and western neighbors as well as with Pakistan, India, and possibly China. Developing a sense of common purpose among citizens would benefit the economy and could help to unite the nation. Perhaps most important, bolstering better governance in Afghanistan is necessary in order to eliminate chaos and corruption and enact nationwide reforms. Fresh and insightful, Building a New Afghanistan shows what the country's leadership and the international community should do to resolve dangerous issues and bolster a still fragile state. Contributors include Cindy Fazey (University of Liverpool), Ali Jalali (former minister of the interior, Afghanistan, and National Defense University), Hekmat Karzai (Centre for Conflict and Peace Studies, Afghanistan, and Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies, Singapore), Alistair J. McKechnie (World Bank Country Director for Afghanistan), Paula Newburg (Skidmore College), and S. Frederick Starr (Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University).

Recovering the Frontier State

Author : Rasul Bux Rais
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739109564
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Recovering the Frontier State written by Rasul Bux Rais and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores how legacies of internal strife and foreign invasions have altered the balance of social and political forces that provided some measure of stability to Afghanistan. The country faces structural constraints in the way of reviving itself owing to ethnic fragmentation, Taliban insurgency, and shallow social roots of political power. The central argument is that Afghanistan needs positive international engagement to find a new balance among its fractious social groups and build effective state and nationhood.

Afghanistan: the Seeds of Hope

Author : Jura Latifov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781436315791
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Afghanistan: the Seeds of Hope written by Jura Latifov and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the disintegration of the USSR the events of September 11, 2001 changed the geopolitical image and significance of Central Asia and Afghanistan. For the period which followed after the commencement of the anti-terrorist operation in Afghanistan in 2001 drastic alterations took place both in Tajikistan and Afghanistan. The new political structure has been firmly rooting in Tajikistan, the final peaceful regularization of the inter-Tajik conflict has been the reality of today. Consolidation of political forces has been intensifying its strength; timid but assured steps being aimed at building up a secular democratic state. We witness an inception of peaceful creation. They carry into effect grand geostrategic projects on establishment of infrastructure of external economic links, construction of gigantic power stations all that ensures favorable conditions for extension of political, external economic, cultural ties with regional states, including Afghanistan. Since the commencement of the anti-terrorist operation the Taliban and Al-Qaida movements were neutralized on this long-suffering earth. The Summit in Bonn laid foundations for the formation of coalitional government. Being supported by world community the Afghan people got into the stride of building up the grounds of its state they adopted the Constitution of the country, elected the President and the Parliament (Loya Jirga). The state started a post-war recovery of the country looking forward to resolving urgent social and economic problems uplifting of the most important units of national economy, clearing the country's territory from mines, return of refugees with providing habitation and jobs for them; they commenced to establish a public service and enforcement frameworks, it is going on with the struggle against terrorism and extremism, radical forces. How were those political events in Afghanistan moving, what strategic goals were pursued by ATO participants, what is the plight of economy in Afghanistan and what are the potential availabilities of the Republic of Tajikistan and the states as a whole in view of post-conflict reconstruction of Afghanistan? What are the probable streamlines in regard to cultural spiritual cooperation between the Republic of Tajikistan and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan? What is the role of the Tajik-Afghan border in the context of regional security? In a word, how was the relationship between the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the Republic of Tajikistan and Central Asian states upon the whole shaping for the latest years, what are the liable perspectives of these countries that may be anticipated in the offing? The readers of this book can learn this all. It is assigned for the students of international relations department of higher schools, as well as for diplomats, political scientists, historians, journalists -international law experts and for a wide circle of readers as well.

The Heritage of Soviet Oriental Studies

Author : Michael Kemper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136838546
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book The Heritage of Soviet Oriental Studies written by Michael Kemper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Western field of oriental studies and orientalism - criticised by Edward Said among others for encouraging the orient to be viewed in a particular way - has a counterpart in Russia and the Soviet Union. This book examines this Russian/Soviet intellectual tradition of oriental scholarship covering Islamic history and Muslim literatures of the USSR republics of Central Asia and the Caucasus.

The Future of the Bamiyan Buddha Statues

Author : Masanori Nagaoka
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030513165
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Future of the Bamiyan Buddha Statues written by Masanori Nagaoka and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Open Access book explores heritage conservation ethics of post conflict and provides an important historical record of the possible reconstruction of the Bamiyan Buddha statues, which was inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List in Danger in 2003 as “Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley”. With the condition that most surface of the original fragments of the Buddha statues were lost due to acts of deliberate destruction, this publication explores a reference point for conservation practitioners and policy makers around the world as they consider how to respond to on-going acts of destruction of cultural heritage. Whilst there has been an emerging debate to the ethics and nature of heritage reconstruction, this volume provides a plethora of ideas and approaches concerning the future treatment of the Bamiyan Buddha statues. It also addresses a number of fundamental questions on potential heritage reconstruction: how it will be done; who will decide; and what it should be done for. Moreover when it comes to the inscribed World Heritage properties, how can reconstructed heritage using non-original materials be considered to retain authenticity? With a view to serving as a precedent for potential decisions taken elsewhere in the world for cultural properties impacted by acts of violence and destruction, this volume introduces academic researches, experiences and observations of heritage conservation theory and practice of heritage reconstruction. It also addresses the issue not merely from the point of a material conservation philosophy but within the context of holistic strategies for the protection of human rights and promotion of peace building.

Afghanistan

Author : Thomas Barfield
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691238561
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Afghanistan written by Thomas Barfield and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major history of Afghanistan and its changing political culture Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence today. Thomas Barfield introduces readers to the bewildering diversity of tribal and ethnic groups in Afghanistan, explaining what unites them as Afghans despite the regional, cultural, and political differences that divide them. He shows how governing these peoples was relatively easy when power was concentrated in a small dynastic elite, but how this delicate political order broke down in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when Afghanistan's rulers mobilized rural militias to expel first the British and later the Soviets. Armed insurgency proved remarkably successful against the foreign occupiers, but it also undermined the Afghan government's authority and rendered the country ever more difficult to govern as time passed. Barfield vividly describes how Afghanistan's armed factions plunged the country into a civil war, giving rise to clerical rule by the Taliban and Afghanistan's isolation from the world. He examines why the American invasion in the wake of September 11 toppled the Taliban so quickly, and how this easy victory lulled the United States into falsely believing that a viable state could be built just as easily. Afghanistan is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how a land conquered and ruled by foreign dynasties for more than a thousand years became the "graveyard of empires" for the British and Soviets, and what the United States must do to avoid a similar fate.

Rebuilding Afghanistan in Times of Crisis

Author : Adenrele Awotona
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138571587
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (715 download)

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Download or read book Rebuilding Afghanistan in Times of Crisis written by Adenrele Awotona and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Afghan Economy : An Historical Overview / Peter Marsden -- Locality and Power : A Methodological Approach to Afghan Rural Politics / Sayed Asef Hossaini -- Women and Economic Development in Post Conflict Afghanistan : Learning from other Muslim Nations / Nicole B. Dhanraj, Hilary Johnson-Lutz and Thomas Rzemyk -- International Development and Gender in Afghanistan : The Impact of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda from 2001-2015 / Kristen Cordell -- Women, Peace and Security : The Uphill Battle of Transforming Afghanistan through Women's Meaningful Participation in Peacebuilding and Security / Jorrit Kamminga -- Reconstruction and Gender : Why Women are Crucial to the Successful Reconstruction of Afghanistan / Shukria Dellawar and Christina Tsirkas -- Afghanistan and the Politics of Quagmire : A Retrospective Analysis of US Policy / David N. Gibbs -- China in Afghanistan : A New Force in the War in Afghanistan? / Niklas L.P. Swanström and Julian Tucker -- India's support for Afghanistan's reconstruction / Gareth Price -- Afghanistan Imbroglio : Reassessing External Powers' Role in Rebuilding the Country / K. N. Tennyson -- Evaluating World Bank Support to Building Capacity of the State and its Accountability to Citizens in Afghanistan / Clay G. Wescott -- Concluding Remarks : The Way Forward for Afghanistan / Adenrele Awotona.

Statebuilding in Afghanistan

Author : Nik Hynek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136661018
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Statebuilding in Afghanistan written by Nik Hynek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-02-06 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume maps and theorizes NATO-ISAF’s multi-national contribution to peacebuilding and reconstruction in Afghanistan. It answers key questions through a series of case studies which together form a comparative study of national contributions to the multilateral mission in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan

Author : Martin Ewans
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415298261
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Afghanistan written by Martin Ewans and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews the emergence and fall of the Taliban, their ideology and their place within Islam, and examines Afghanistan's relevance to issues relating to Islamic extremism, the international drugs trade and international terrorism.