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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (3): 193–200.
Published: 01 August 2020
... This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. drone unmanned aerial vehicle Afghanistan Taliban 9/11 Death from Above: An Afghan Perspective on the US Drone War; An Interview with Emran Feroz Sina Rahmani SR: At the outset...
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Making Islam (Coherent): Academic Discourse and the Politics of Language
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 33–55.
Published: 01 August 2023
... of such a group, with its deft use of both military and media technology. Policy analysts regularly referred to Taliban rule in Afghanistan as “medieval,” despite being the result of Soviet and US training and proxy war fighting as well as subsequent power vacuums; some analysts even insisted that a historical...
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Capitalism, Sovereignty, and the Dilemmas of Postcoloniality
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boundary 2 (2006) 33 (2): 177–201.
Published: 01 May 2006
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the issue of sovereignty, some argued that from a humanitarian perspective
ousting the Taliban made sense. Those who were skeptical of the humani-
tarian motives behind the war rightly pointed to the fact that no one seemed
to care about the plight of Afghani women until U.S. security seemed...
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The Echo Chamber of Freedom: The Muslim Woman and the Pretext of Agency
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 155–189.
Published: 01 February 2013
... for all religious women, is about
a particular group of neo-orthodox women.
This passage, however, affords an opportunity to open into a differ-
ent history. The one article Puar cites in the footnote, by Lila Abu-Lughod,
defends the burqa in Taliban-controlled...
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The Global Homeland State: Bush's Biopolitical Settlement
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boundary 2 (2003) 30 (3): 1–18.
Published: 01 August 2003
... Taliban and Iraqis, who were subjected to the power of the
state yet lacked the protection of their rights or liberties.
This new settlement required the public to sacrifice their civil liberties
in exchange for the enjoyment...
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Terror: A Speech After 9-11
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boundary 2 (2004) 31 (2): 81–111.
Published: 01 May 2004
... constructed as a respondent.
A response not only supposes and produces a constructed subject
of response, it also constructs its object. To what, then, do most of these
responses respond?
The ‘‘war’’ on the Taliban, repeatedly declared on media by represen-
tatives of the United States...
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Memoranda: 9/11/01
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boundary 2 (2002) 29 (1): 259–288.
Published: 01 February 2002
... buildings like the WTC and the Pentagon does not harm the
United States. These buildings are certainly not great Buddhas for Ameri-
cans, like the icons the Taliban destroyed in Bamiyan, Afghanistan. Destroy-
ing the Statue of Liberty or the White House would have offended us deeply,
to be sure...
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In/Comparable Horrors: Total War and the Japanese Thing
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boundary 2 (2005) 32 (2): 137–149.
Published: 01 May 2005
... as the war progressed). The need to bring together terror and war, to find
the analogy with a previous war and thus validate these events as acts of
war, points to the rhetorical and practical efficacy of war as a crucible of com-
parisons, invidious and otherwise. As the image of the Taliban stretched...
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A Rumor of War : 9/11 and the Forgetting of the Vietnam War
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boundary 2 (2003) 30 (3): 29–66.
Published: 01 August 2003
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in Iran, its support of unpopular despotic Middle Eastern regimes such
as Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the Taliban, its massive financing of
Israel’s militaristic colonialist policies in the face of the obvious valid claims...
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Neocons and Their Nemeses in Iran
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boundary 2 (2005) 32 (1): 95–115.
Published: 01 February 2005
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Republic from a democratic-theocratic hybrid into a full-fledged conserva-
tive theocracy. As one deputy remarked, ‘‘They want a Taliban-styled Islam,
not a proper Republic 38
Coming Crisis?
The conservatives may well prove to be too clever by half. Or, as
Iranians would say, they have...
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Democracy or Ideology
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boundary 2 (2006) 33 (3): 35–59.
Published: 01 August 2006
... on terror conse-
quent to the 9/11 bombings, which was colored with considerable commen-
tary about the repressive nature of the Taliban regime and the role played
by the Saudi exportation of Wahhabism, there was no invocation of ideol-
ogy. And as far as the occupation of Iraq was concerned, the Bush...
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Looking for the Good Fight: William T. Vollmann's An Afghanistan Picture Show
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (2): 99–124.
Published: 01 May 2009
... on Their Hearts
(2000 his travel essay on the Taliban from Rising Up and Rising Down,
Vollmann exclaims, T. E. Lawrence–like, “I love Afghans. Brave, strong,
gallant and generous, what have they not done for me Both his invest-
ment in the exotic and his tendency to generalize contradict his desire...
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King Kong in America
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (2): 139–163.
Published: 01 May 2014
... of incompatibility between Islam
and democracy by the likes of the Taliban, while Jiang’s Academy bears
strong structural and ideological resemblance to Iranian Ayatollahs’ Council
of Guardians. If anything, the latter is more democratic in its parliamentary
system than what is proposed by Jiang, who would...
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NoOnesRose: An Interview with Pierre Joris
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 1–27.
Published: 01 November 2023
... historical and ideological roots. Which right now, fifty-five years after I first came to the US, has me very edgy: what I have come to call the Fascist Taliban GOP and the global climate crisis indicate to me that the weight of Homo sap sap history may crush the life out of not only the geographical space...
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The End of Colonialism? The Colonial Modern in the Making of Global Modernity
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boundary 2 (2005) 32 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 February 2005
... of globalization, but more importantly as a proliferation of claims on
modernity. These so-called traditions no longer imply a contrast with moder-
nity, as they did in modernization discourse or the domain of backward-
looking conservatism, except in exceptional instances—such as the Taliban,
for instance...
