Power and authority in Afghanistan : rethinking politics, intervention and rule / edited by Anna Larson, Dipali Mukhopadhyay and Omar Sharifi.

Introduction : Rethinking Power and Authority in Afghanistan / Anna Larson -- Stability as Strength in the Musahiban Era / Thomas Barfield -- The Taliban, Women and the Hegelian Private Sphere / Juan Cole -- Legitimizing Power in Afghanistan / Haroun Rahimi -- Unlocking the Taliban Puzzle : Traditions and Fundamentalisms / Mujib Abid -- Neopatrimonial Perspectives on Political Structures in Afghanistan / Zinab Attai, Maryam Jami and Boshra Moheb -- Civil-Military Relations, Battlefield Performance, and the Disintegration of Afghanistan's Security Forces / Basir Yosufi -- Ghost Schools : Imperial Debris and the Erasure of Educated Women / Marya Hannun -- Peace Building and State-building in Afghanistan / Barnett R. Rubin -- Afghan Subjectivities and U.S. Foreign Policy : Postcolonial Perspectives / Nasema Zeerak -- Leased Power and Vague Authority : The Political Culture and Economy of Rule in Afghanistan / Nazif Shahrani -- Legitimacy by Design / Astri Suhrke -- Brokerage, Business and the Continuities in Power / Noah Coburn and Arsalan Noori -- Power, Ideas, and the 'Taliban 2.0' Myth / William Maley -- The State, the Clergy, and British Imperial Policy in Afghanistan during the 19th and Early 20th Centuries / Senzil Nawid -- The Pushback against the Hazara Rise in Afghanistan / Ali Yarwar Adili -- Minority Games : Intergroup Power Imbalances in a Nation of Competing Identities / Annika Schmeding -- Inheriting Hegemonic Nobility : Urban Elite Lineage and Legitimacy / Adam H. Dehsabzi -- Failed Democracy in Afghanistan : Rethinking Deliberation and Pluralism / Omar Sadr -- Mujahidin Memory and the Legacies of Wartime Governance in Afghanistan / Munazza Ebtikar - Afterword / Dipali Mukhopadhyay.

This volume provides a critical analysis of power and authority in Afghanistan, and how the conception and practice of these have shifted both historically and over the past twenty years. Contributors examine the deep colonial roots of ethnography, geography and anthropology, and assess the international intervention's influence on power and authority structures

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