1st Edition
Propaganda, Communication and Empire Western Intervention in Afghanistan
1 Introduction, Sumanth Inukonda, Oliver Boyd-Barrett and Lara Martin Lengel Part I: Propaganda and Interventionism 2 Invading and Occupying Afghanistan and Iraq: The Geopolitics of Pretext, Oliver Boyd-Barrett 3 The ‘Great Game’ and the Long Arc of Imperialism, Sumanth Inukonda 4 Narrative Consolidation of 9/11, 2001-2003, Oliver Boyd-Barrett and Lara Martin Lengel 5 Framing ‘Peace’ and ‘Security’ for the War on Terror: From Okinawa to Afghanistan, Dan Broudy and David Ulvog 6 Strategic Narratives and Interventionism, Lara Martin Lengel Part II: Geopolitics and Imperialism 7 The Rise and Fall, and Rise of the Taliban, Raghav Sharma 8 Counterinsurgents versus Counter-terrorists: The Role of the News Media in the 2009 U.S. Afghanistan Strategy Review, Phillip Münch 9 Women, Religious Minorities, and Humanitarian Interventions, Sumanth Inukonda and Lara Martin Lengel 10 The Troubled Search for a Post-Imperial Mission: Spain in Afghanistan, Pablo Sapag Part III: Media and the Global War on Terror 11 Cross-Border Reporting by Pashtun Journalists on Taliban’s Afghanistan, Syed Irfan Ashraf and Azmat Khan 12 The Afghan Girl Grows Up: (Re)Circulation of an Iconic Image, Christina M. Smith 13 Hollywood’s Role in Laying the Groundwork for the Global War on Terror, Matthew Alford 14 Urbicide and Hollywood, Sumanth Inukonda 15 Afghanistan to Ukraine and Beyond: An Afterword, Oliver Boyd-Barrett
Biography
Sumanth Inukonda is 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 the 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. Her 30 refereed journal articles address, among others, embodied activism, discursive cleansing of Indigenous groups, memory politics, and strategic and visual narratives of geopolitical conflict.
