Book Review: Afghanistan Post–2014—Misreading Afghanistan’s Crypto-coloniality
Review of:
Afghanistan Post-2014: Power Configurations and Evolving Tragectories.
Edited by Rajen Harshe’ and Dhananjay Tripathi. (New Delhi: Routledge), 2016, pp. xix+248.
The colonial and postcolonial writings about of Afghanistan are marked by the absence of a systematic and critical awareness about the country as an offspring and dependency of Western colonialism. The ethnographic, historic and political realities of Afghanistan provide extensive evidence for the country as a crypto-colony—invisible and disguised, but real and ongoing colonial space with continuous political and material dependence on Euro-American metropolitan powers....For more, please read: