A state built on sand : how opium undermined Afghanistan / David Mansfield.
Oscillations in opium poppy production in Afghanistan have long been associated with how the state was perceived, such as after the Taliban imposed a cultivation ban in 2000-1. The international community's subsequent attempts to regulate opium poppy became intimately linked with its own state-build...
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Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2016]
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Physical Description: | xviii, 382 pages, 16 unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Format: | Book |
Summary: |
Oscillations in opium poppy production in Afghanistan have long been associated with how the state was perceived, such as after the Taliban imposed a cultivation ban in 2000-1. The international community's subsequent attempts to regulate opium poppy became intimately linked with its own state-building project, and rising levels of cultivation were cited as evidence of failure by those international donors who spearheaded development in poppy-growing provinces like Helmand, Nangarhar and Kandahar. Mansfield's book examines why drug control - particularly opium bans - have been imposed in Afghanistan; he documents the actors involved; and he scrutinizes how prohibition served divergent and competing interests. Drawing on almost two decades of fieldwork in rural areas, he explains how these bans affected farming communities, and how prohibition endured in some areas while in others opium production bans undermined livelihoods and destabilized the political order, fuelling violence and rural rebellion. |
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Call Number: | HV5840.A23 M36 2016 |
Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-351) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780190608316 0190608315 9781849045681 1849045682 |