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The Ambiguity of Things : Souvenirs from Afghanistan

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Kühn, Florian P.:
The Ambiguity of Things : Souvenirs from Afghanistan.
In: Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. Bd. 10 (2016) Heft 1 . - S. 97-115.
ISSN 1750-2977
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2015.1137397

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Abstract

Souvenirs can help illustrate the world-view towards a country under intervention. Following the work of Lisa Smirl, this article analyses a particular set of souvenirs from Afghanistan in order to establish how the intervention there is shaping the imaginary of conflict professionals working in Kabul in the final years of the International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF). Souvenirs are analysed as consistent with established tropes, in the case of Afghanistan dating back to colonial encounters beginning in the early nineteenth century; much of the ‘Othering' knowledge produced is actualized in souvenirs. In a focused analysis of a Scorpion glass, representing a particular type of souvenir, the articles concludes by showing how what souvenirs transmit is ambiguous and depends on different interpretations and meanings attached to them by different audiences. For conflict professionals who buy these items, they are a way to bridge the gap of their home experience and their life in intervention context. Souvenirs can help mitigate the ‘liminal’ existence that many security professionals, aid workers or embassy staff experience during missions in intervened countries. At the same time, they reify the tropes and narratives about the intervened countries and peoples and thus shape the way interventions are understood, conducted and practised.

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Publikationsform: Artikel in einer Zeitschrift
Begutachteter Beitrag: Ja
Keywords: Lisa Smirl; liminality; intervention spaces; objects scorpions; ambiguity analysis; orientalism; othering; stereotypes; narratives; humanitarian morality; materialism
Institutionen der Universität: Fakultäten
Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Lehrstuhl Soziologie Afrikas
Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Lehrstuhl Soziologie Afrikas > Lehrstuhl Soziologie Afrikas - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jana Hönke
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Themengebiete aus DDC: 300 Sozialwissenschaften
300 Sozialwissenschaften > 320 Politikwissenschaft
Eingestellt am: 09 Jan 2023 13:55
Letzte Änderung: 09 Jan 2023 13:55
URI: https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/73224