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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2020

Nivi Manchanda
Affiliation:
Queen Mary University of London
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The introductory chapter introduces the main questions that animate the book as a whole. It has a section on methods and a discussion of the theoretical and methodological traditions the book draws on. It elaborates on the stakes in construing Afghanistan as an ‘interve+G6nable object’. It uses an image of a textbook used in Afghanistan in the 1980s to show how knowledge about Afghanitan is produced and packaged and how it circulates around the world.

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Imagining Afghanistan
The History and Politics of Imperial Knowledge
, pp. 1 - 22
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Introduction
  • Nivi Manchanda, Queen Mary University of London
  • Book: Imagining Afghanistan
  • Online publication: 09 June 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108867986.001
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  • Introduction
  • Nivi Manchanda, Queen Mary University of London
  • Book: Imagining Afghanistan
  • Online publication: 09 June 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108867986.001
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  • Introduction
  • Nivi Manchanda, Queen Mary University of London
  • Book: Imagining Afghanistan
  • Online publication: 09 June 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108867986.001
Available formats
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