The Quiet Violence Of Empire: How Usaid Waged Counterinsurgency In Afghanistan Wesley Attewell University Minnesota Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Economics

How The U S Empire-State Transformed Post-1945 Afghanistan Into A Key Site For Reimagining Development Established In 1961 By President Kennedy United States Agency International (Usaid) Is Often Viewed As An Extension Of Security State Playing Constant Role On Ground Since Early Sixties Quiet Violence Empire Traces Usaid\ Long And Bloody History Work Region Revealing Empirically Rich Account Transnational Entanglements Imperialism Racial Capitalism Wesley Attewell Carefully Analyzes Three Chronological Moments Counterinsurgency Action: Helmand Valley Project Soviet-Afghan Conflict Post-9 11 Occupation These Case Studies Expose Very Public Commitment To Bringing Seemingly Inclusionary Forms Self-Help Technical Assistance Market Has Been Undergirded Longer-Standing Infrastructures Race War Management Exposes One Net Effects Mission Constrain Life Chances Afghan Beneficiaries While Simultaneously Diverting Capital Back Contractors Deftly Underscoring Notion Form Slow Asks Critical Question: Might We Refuse Ruse Usaid Its Endlessly Deferred Promise Development? Thinking Relationally Across Fields Human Geography Global Ethnic It Uncovers Explicitly Underpinnings Theory Praxis Σελίδες: 328 Διαστάσεις: 14X14Cm