Constructing the Image of a State
Constructing the Image of a State
Local Realities and International Intervention in North-East Afghanistan
This chapter suggests that local politics in Afghanistan has seen a new quality of social dynamics in the last decade as a result of non-military international development intervention. It argues that, with concrete programmes and projects as part of the international intervention touching ground in north-east Afghanistan, two different orders with respective logics and worldviews have been colliding: the local realms of rural dwellers and the external order paradigm with its own assumptions about local ordering premises and corresponding images. This interface is occupied by development brokers whose influence and power rest in their position or skills in dealing with ‘the other’ social order, its rules, and agents.
Keywords: local politics, social dynamics, international intervention, social order
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