Propaganda, Communication and Empire

Western Intervention in Afghanistan
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-60456-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This volume interrogates the mediatized politics of Western intervention in Afghanistan, to gain a deeper understanding of the occupation within the broader transition towards a multipolar global order.

Accurate histories of Western interventions and regional realities are often obscured or even eclipsed in the accounts of Western mainstream media, which, if anything, tend to rue the withdrawals and lionize the suffering of returning troops.  This volume investigates the state's role in the dark underbelly of the short-sighted interventionist media narrative, as well as the dehumanizing portrayals of people living in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. In its opening section, the book critically evaluates the narrative of the Global War on Terror, as well as the wars launched after 9/11 that destabilized the Middle East. The chapters in the following section contextualize developments in Afghanistan with a historical framework that will problematize linear narratives that are mobilized in support of interventions. The chapters in the final section re-present specific aspects of the geopolitical and humanitarian consequences that have eluded mainstream media workers, including journalists and Hollywood moviemakers. 

This book will be of interest to students of propaganda studies, media and communication studies, US foreign policy and International Relations.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lengel, Lara Martin

Inukonda, Sumanth

Boyd-Barrett, Oliver

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1   Introduction  Part I:  Propaganda and Interventionism  2   Invading and Occupying Afghanistan and Iraq: The Geopolitics of Pretext  3    The ‘Great Game’ and the Long Arc of Imperialism  4    Narrative Consolidation of 9/11, 2001-2003  5    Framing ‘Peace’ and ‘Security’ for the War on Terror: From Okinawa to Afghanistan  6   Strategic Narratives and Interventionism  Part II: Geopolitics and Imperialism  7    The Rise and Fall, and Rise of the Taliban  8    Counterinsurgents versus Counter-terrorists: The Role of the News Media in the 2009 U.S. Afghanistan Strategy Review  9  Women, Religious Minorities, and Humanitarian Interventions  10   The Troubled Search for a Post-Imperial Mission: Spain in Afghanistan  Part III: Media and the Global War on Terror  11  Cross-Border Reporting by Pashtun Journalists on Taliban’s Afghanistan  12  The Afghan Girl Grows Up: (Re)Circulation of an Iconic Image  13  Hollywood’s Role in Laying the Groundwork for the Global War on Terror  14  Urbicide and Hollywood  15 Afghanistan to Ukraine and Beyond: An Afterword

Über Autor(innen)

Sumanth Inukonda is an Associate Professor of Communication at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York (CUNY). He is the author of Media, Nationalism and Globalization: The Telangana movement and Indian Politics (2020).

Oliver Boyd-Barrett is Professor Emeritus of the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University and at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He is author or editor of some 25 scholarly books, including, most recently, Conflict Propaganda in Syria (2021).

Lara Martin Lengel is Professor of Media and Communications at Bowling Green State University, USA.