Homo Itinerans: Towards a Global Ethnography of Afghanistan

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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. Homo Itinerans Contents 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