Under the Drones: Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands
Under the Drones: Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands
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无人机下：阿富汗-巴基斯坦边境地区的现代生活
DOI：
10.4159/harvard.9780674064768
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
5.2
通讯作者：
Jason Brownlee
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作者：
E. Nepal;Bashir;Robert D. Crews;Usama Butt;Julian Schofield;Adam Bergman;Usman Mustafa;John Kane;Hui;Mely Caballero;Mohammad Waseem;S. Mitra;Yash Ghai;Jill Cottrell;Krishna Sen;Terence Lee;Jason Brownlee
在西方，媒体对阿富汗和巴基斯坦的报道以军事和政治问题为框架，导致了一幅简单化的画面：永恒的野蛮、恐怖分子的避难所以及需要惩罚或拯救的人民。 《无人机之下》超越了这种限制性观点，调查了现实中的人们，并分析了塑造他们生活的政治、社会和经济力量。了解阿富汗和巴基斯坦之间 1,600 英里边界沿线生活的复杂性可以帮助美国及其欧洲盟友重新调整其在该地区的优先事项，以解决真正的问题，而不是捏造的问题。这本书揭示了这片充满人类能动性、永恒创新和充满活力的复杂性的土地，打破了西方的误解。通过历史学家和社会科学家的工作，这里的十三篇文章探讨了塔利班的真实和想象的存在；通过巴基斯坦卡车装饰等传统表达的生动的社会政治身份；苏菲主义作为战斗性替代方案的矛盾立场；阿富汗媒体漫长而矛盾的历史；以及海洛因给该地区的妇女带来的残酷和潜在的可能性。作者超越了不断变化的安全概念，揭露了西方对该地区的普遍看法：战略性的、有针对性的和令人震惊的非人性化。 《无人机之下》是当代媒体报道和军事担忧的重要解药。
In the West, media coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan is framed by military and political concerns, resulting in a simplistic picture of ageless barbarity, terrorist safe havens, and peoples in need of either punishment or salvation. "Under the Drones" looks beyond this limiting view to investigate real people on the ground, and to analyze the political, social, and economic forces that shape their lives. Understanding the complexity of life along the 1,600-mile border between Afghanistan and Pakistan can help America and its European allies realign their priorities in the region to address genuine problems, rather than fabricated ones. This volume explodes Western misunderstandings by revealing a land that abounds with human agency, perpetual innovation, and vibrant complexity. Through the work of historians and social scientists, the thirteen essays here explore the real and imagined presence of the Taliban; the animated sociopolitical identities expressed through traditions like Pakistani truck decoration; Sufism's ambivalent position as an alternative to militancy; the long and contradictory history of Afghan media; and the simultaneous brutality and potential that heroin brings to women in the area. Moving past shifting conceptions of security, the authors expose the West's prevailing perspective on the region as strategic, targeted, and alarmingly dehumanizing. "Under the Drones" is an essential antidote to contemporary media coverage and military concerns.