Homo Itinerans

Towards a Global Ethnography of Afghanistan

Alessandro Monsutti (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

148 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-131-9 (ISBN)

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Afghan society has been marked in a lasting way by war and the exodus of part of its population. While many have emigrated to countries across the world, they have been matched by the flow of experts who arrive in Afghanistan after having been in other war-torn countries such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Palestine or East Timor. This book builds on more than two decades of ethnographic travels in some twenty countries, bringing the readers from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran to Europe, North America and Australia. It describes the everyday life and transnational circulations of Afghan refugees and expatriates.

Alessandro Monsutti is Professor at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. He is the author of War and Migration: Social Networks and Economic Strategies of the Hazaras of Afghanistan (Routledge, 2005).

Preface

Acknowledgements

Key Dates

Introduction

Chapter 1. Reconstructing Afghanistan: Counterinsurgency and Colonial Imaginary

Chapter 2. The State in All Its States: Elections and Democratization

Chapter 3. Educating the Elites: From Geneva to Abu Dhabi

Chapter 4. Rural Development: A Matter of Workshops

Chapter 5. Village Life: Overlapping Solidarities and Conflicts

Chapter 6. Neighbouring Countries: Equivocal Refuges

Chapter 7. Across the Seas: Playing with Categories

Chapter 8. Greece: The Filter of All Hopes

Chapter 9. Europe, Mon Amour: Or the Ruses of Itinerancy

Chapter 10. Contested Modernities: A Transnational Anthropology of the Political

Conclusion

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.10.2023
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-131-3 / 1805391313
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-131-9 / 9781805391319
Zustand	Neuware