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Anthropologizing Conflict and Post-conflict Reconstruction: the case of Afghanistan
| Termin |
Dienstag, 29. Oktober 2013, 16.15 - 18.00 Uhr
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| Veranstaltungsart |
Vorlesung/Vortrag |
| Einrichtung |
Philosophische Fakultät I |
| Veranstaltungsort |
Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung |
| Straße |
Advokatenweg 36 |
| PLZ/Ort |
06114 Halle (Saale) |
Beschreibung
Vortragender: Alessandro Monsutti, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
The presentation will examine new forms of transnational power constituted by the action of international and nongovernmental organizations. It will focus more specifically on the impact that the massive reconstruction effort is having on Afghan society, through the case study of the National Solidarity Programme (NSP), the main project of rural rehabilitation underway in the country. The arguments are four-fold: First, the NSP subtly modifies participants’ body gestures and codes of conduct. Second, the program’s fundamental assumptions are at odds with the complex social fabric and the overlapping sources of solidarity and conflict that characterize rural Afghanistan. Third, the ways in which political actors use material and symbolic resources channeled through the NSP mirror national struggles for power. Finally, such programs are one element in a much larger conceptual and bureaucratic apparatus that promotes new forms of transnational governmentality, and they coexist with and sometimes challenge the more familiar, territorialized expressions of state power and sovereignty.
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