By Julie Billaud
After the assaults of September eleven, 2001, the plight of Afghan girls lower than Taliban rule used to be commonly publicized within the usa as one of many humanitarian concerns justifying intervention. Kabul Carnival explores the contradictions, ambiguities, and unwanted effects of the emancipatory initiatives for Afghan girls designed and imposed via exterior organisations. construction on embodiment and function concept, this evocative ethnography describes Afghan women's responses to social anxieties approximately identification that experience emerged a result of army occupation.
Offering one of many first long term on-the-ground stories because the arrival of allied forces in 2001, Julie Billaud introduces readers to everyday life in Afghanistan via photographs of ladies specific by way of overseas relief regulations. studying encounters among foreign specialists in gender and transitional justice, Afghan civil servants and NGO employees, and girls unaffiliated with those agencies, Billaud unpacks many of the paradoxes that come up from competing understandings of democracy and rights practices. Kabul Carnival finds the ways that the foreign community's problem with the visibility of ladies in public has finally created tensions and restricted women's skill to discover a culturally valid voice.
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The fragmented nature of my fieldwork and the fragile relationships I managed to develop were somehow a reflection of the fragmented relation- PB Sect tion Introduction PB 23 ships the social landscape was made of. But more generally, the mobile disposition I had to adopt in order to follow the “pulse” of the field—or its “rhythm” to use Henri Lefebvre’s (2004) terminology—demonstrates that movement instead of stability is perhaps best apt to capture the changing and dynamic nature of modern human life.
Decrees were introduced as part of a program of social and political reforms intended to effect the rapid transformation of a patriarchal society (Moghadam 2004, 454). For instance, a decree limited the payment of bride-price and gave greater freedom of choice to women with respect to marriage. Another one raised the marriagable age for girls to sixteen years. In addition, the government launched an aggressive literacy program aimed at educating women and removing them from seclusion (Majrooh 1989, 90).
In 1959, the government of King Zahir Shah formally announced the voluntary end of female seclusion and the removal of the veil. However, it was left to individual families to decide how to respond to these greater freedoms and, outside the major urban centers, life for most women remained largely unchanged (Zulfacar 2006, 33). Nevertheless, in the following years the government introduced girls’ schools and medical facilities for women where they could receive training in both nursing and administration.