Reconceptualizing Securitization in Afghanistan: Ethnicity, Social Identity, and Higher Education post-2001 (Routledge New Security Studies)

This book analyses the securitization of ethnic identities and social groups by the state in Afghanistan in the post-2001 context. Securitization is arguably the most successful theoretical framework to analyse security beyond the military confines.Yet, despite its broadening agenda, the securitization framework has been accused of a Western bias.This book analyses the extent and the modalities and practices of the securitization of ethnic identities and social groups (e.g. women) by the state in Afghanistan post-2001, which is especially relevant following the takeover by the Taliban in August 2021.It puts forward a more nuanced argument by analytically distinguishing and empirically testing state policies, practices, and perspectives on ethnic and social groups that are largely informed by the fear and legacies of civil war (1978-2001).The work argues that the traditional lack of a stable state identity that could function as a basis for ontological security in Afghanistan has result