This outstanding series provides concise and lively introductions to countries and the major development issues they face. Packed full of factual information, photographs and maps, the guides also focus on ordinary people and the impact that historical, economic and environmental issues have on their lives.

Chris Johnson
Chris Johnson is an independent consultant. She has worked in Afghanistan since 1996, first for Oxfam and then as Director of the Strategic Monitoring Unit (now AREU).

The Role of Environmental Perception in the Attitudes of People in Aran and Bidgol Concerning the Presence of Afghan Migrants

Shaterian, Mohsen

Journal of International Migration and Integration, Vol. 21 (2020), Iss. 1 P.319

https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-019-00733-5 [Citations: 0]

Culture wars

Lindisfarne, Nancy

Anthropology Today, Vol. 24 (2008), Iss. 3 P.3

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8322.2008.00582.x [Citations: 3]

Exploring the Disjuncture Between the Politics of Trauma and Everyday Realities of Women in Afghanistan

Dossa, Parin

Journal of Muslim Mental Health, Vol. 5 (2010), Iss. 1 P.8

https://doi.org/10.1080/15564901003609414 [Citations: 5]

Education for Demilitarizing Youth in Post-Conflict Afghanistan

Matsumoto, Yukitoshi

Research in Comparative and International Education, Vol. 3 (2008), Iss. 1 P.65

https://doi.org/10.2304/rcie.2008.3.1.65 [Citations: 10]

Governance and Political Adaptation in Fragile States

More Legitimate, Less Fragile, Less Liberal? The Adoption and Adaptation of Elections in Afghanistan

Larson, Anna

2019

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90749-9_9 [Citations: 0]

“Foreign Passports Only”: Geographies of (Post)Conflict Work in Kabul, Afghanistan

Fluri, Jennifer

Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 99 (2009), Iss. 5 P.986

https://doi.org/10.1080/00045600903253353 [Citations: 27]

The Political Economy of Post-invasion Kabul, Afghanistan: Urban Restructuring beyond the North–South Divide

Esser, Daniel

Urban Studies, Vol. 50 (2013), Iss. 15 P.3084

https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098013487773 [Citations: 9]

Justice and Peace

The Roadblock of Contested Recognition: Identity-Based Justice Claims as an Obstacle to Peace Negotiations in Afghanistan

Bell, Arvid

2019

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-25196-3_10 [Citations: 0]

Aid, Opium, and the State of Rents in Afghanistan: Competition, Cooperation, or Cohabitation?

Kühn, Florian P.

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Vol. 2 (2008), Iss. 3 P.309

https://doi.org/10.1080/17502970802436338 [Citations: 17]

Old Dilemmas or New Challenges? The Politics of Gender and Reconstruction in Afghanistan

Kandiyoti, Deniz

Development and Change, Vol. 38 (2007), Iss. 2 P.169

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7660.2007.00408.x [Citations: 44]

Urban planning, political system, and public participation in a century of urbanization: Kabul, Afghanistan

Mushkani, Rashid A.

Ono, Haruka

Hardman, Michael

Cogent Social Sciences, Vol. 8 (2022), Iss. 1

https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2022.2045452 [Citations: 0]

Security scales: spectacular and endemic violence in post-invasion Kabul, Afghanistan

Esser, Daniel E

Environment and Urbanization, Vol. 26 (2014), Iss. 2 P.373

https://doi.org/10.1177/0956247814544098 [Citations: 3]

Area Studies at the Crossroads

Between Ignoring and Romanticizing: The Position of Area Studies in Policy Advice

Schetter, Conrad

2017

https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59834-9_5 [Citations: 1]

Structural Violence in Afghanistan: Gendered Memory, Narratives, and Food

Dossa, Parin

Medical Anthropology, Vol. 32 (2013), Iss. 5 P.433

https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2012.721826 [Citations: 3]

Getting savages to fight barbarians: counterinsurgency and the remaking of Afghanistan

Hakimi, Aziz A.

Central Asian Survey, Vol. 32 (2013), Iss. 3 P.388

https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2013.843300 [Citations: 12]

The Roadblock of Contested Recognition: Identity-Based Justice Claims as an Obstacle to Peace Negotiations in Afghanistan

Bell, Arvid

International Negotiation, Vol. 19 (2014), Iss. 3 P.518

https://doi.org/10.1163/15718069-12341289 [Citations: 1]

Der Nahe Osten im Umbruch

Konkurrenz, Kooperation oder gegenseitige Akzeptanz? Zum Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Staatsklasse und Drogenrentiers in Afghanistan

Kühn, Florian P.

2009

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-91890-7_6 [Citations: 0]

The specter of failure: rendering Afghan women as sites of precarity in empowerment regimes

Zeweri, Helena

International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol. 19 (2017), Iss. 4 P.441

https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2017.1303335 [Citations: 2]