The quiet violence of empire : how USAID waged counterinsurgency in Afghanistan /

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"The Quiet Violence of Empire traces USAID's long and bloody history of development work in Afghanistan to reveal the transnational entanglements of imperialism and racial capitalism, deftly underscoring the notion of development as a form of slow violence. Thinking relationally across hum...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Attewell, Wesley, 1986- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2023.
Temas:
United States. > Agency for International Development.
Economic assistance, American > Afghanistan.
Economic assistance > Political aspects > United States.
Rural development > Afghanistan.
Imperialism.
Counterinsurgency > Afghanistan.
Racism > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
Rural development
Economic assistance > Political aspects
Counterinsurgency
Racism.
International economic relations.
Economic assistance, American.
United States > Foreign economic relations > Afghanistan.
Afghanistan > Foreign economic relations > United States.
United States.
Afghanistan.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Development, Infrastructure, Race Wars
  • 1. The Unfinished Symphony: Infrastructural Power in the Helmand Valley
  • 2. From Factory to Field: The Insurgent Logistics of Development
  • 3. Fast Development, Slow Violence: Development as Race War
  • 4. Alternative Developments? Economizing Life and Death in Eastern Afghanistan
  • Conclusion: Development in a Time of Abolition.

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