Anila Daulatzai
Biographic Data
| ID | 191814 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anila Daulatzai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anila |
| FAMILY NAME | Daulatzai |
| SIGNATURE | DAULATZAI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6603-1286 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Fanboying the Taliban
This article considers the form of the Taliban through their citationality in the white nationalist manosphere as epitomizing the supreme expression of an excess Muslim masculinity. Further, when I track the figure of the Taliban as the figure of the Muslim writ large, I am also tracing the work of liberals and liberalism. Instead of focusing on the manosphere as a singular part of contemporary “culture wars”, as is commonly done, I analyze the w…
Afghanistan, Racial Melancholia, and Loss That Exceeds Loss
What does it mean for mourning and racial melancholia to inhabit (and exceed) the geography of Afghanistan, structured by serial wars and serial foreign occupations? As Afghans are subjected to immense forms of loss, what forms of melancholia take hold? This article builds on the critical scholarship on racial melancholia and mourning with a focus on the decades-long (and ongoing) US war and occupation of Afghanistan and considers how to think wi…
The Discursive Occupation of Afghanistan
In this paper I argue that feminist (inspired) writings have largely obfuscated the history of gender, violence, and subjectivity in Afghanistan. I contend that western and non-western feminisms – while having served important roles in keeping discussions on Afghanistan alive – fail to adequately relate to war and western imperialism, and therefore fall short of tracing the formations of subjectivity of women in contemporary Afghanistan. In build…
Acknowledging Afghanistan
This article questions the privileging of gender as the primary axis along which the experience of being a woman in Afghanistan can be understood and attended to. I argue that the privileging of gender is part of a two-pronged problem: first, there is a substantial lack of current knowledge on everyday life and subjectivity of Afghans, and second, this lack of knowledge is held in abeyance, while a limited set of analytical concepts and clichés-e…
A leap of faith
The political sentiment represented by the WSF celebrates diversity, and cultivates a substrate where movements can be incubated, and prosper. This paper questions a particular secular(ist) vocabulary, grammar, and culture of politics exhibited at the WSF in Mumbai. It asks whether the political space of the Forum, which is defined as open, democratic, and tolerant, must necessarily be a secular one, or whether a secularistic political affect clo…
The Discursive Occupation of Afghanistan
In this paper I argue that feminist (inspired) writings have largely obfuscated the history of gender, violence, and subjectivity in Afghanistan. I contend that western and non-western feminisms – while having served important roles in keeping discussions on Afghanistan alive – fail to adequately relate to war and western imperialism, and therefore fall short of tracing the formations of subjectivity of women in contemporary Afghanistan. In build…
Acknowledging Afghanistan
This article questions the privileging of gender as the primary axis along which the experience of being a woman in Afghanistan can be understood and attended to. I argue that the privileging of gender is part of a two-pronged problem: first, there is a substantial lack of current knowledge on everyday life and subjectivity of Afghans, and second, this lack of knowledge is held in abeyance, while a limited set of analytical concepts and clichés-e…
A leap of faith
The political sentiment represented by the WSF celebrates diversity, and cultivates a substrate where movements can be incubated, and prosper. This paper questions a particular secular(ist) vocabulary, grammar, and culture of politics exhibited at the WSF in Mumbai. It asks whether the political space of the Forum, which is defined as open, democratic, and tolerant, must necessarily be a secular one, or whether a secularistic political affect clo…
A leap of faith
The political sentiment represented by the WSF celebrates diversity, and cultivates a substrate where movements can be incubated, and prosper. This paper questions a particular secular(ist) vocabulary, grammar, and culture of politics exhibited at the WSF in Mumbai. It asks whether the political space of the Forum, which is defined as open, democratic, and tolerant, must necessarily be a secular one, or whether a secularistic political affect clo…
Acknowledging Afghanistan
This article questions the privileging of gender as the primary axis along which the experience of being a woman in Afghanistan can be understood and attended to. I argue that the privileging of gender is part of a two-pronged problem: first, there is a substantial lack of current knowledge on everyday life and subjectivity of Afghans, and second, this lack of knowledge is held in abeyance, while a limited set of analytical concepts and clichés-e…
The Discursive Occupation of Afghanistan
In this paper I argue that feminist (inspired) writings have largely obfuscated the history of gender, violence, and subjectivity in Afghanistan. I contend that western and non-western feminisms – while having served important roles in keeping discussions on Afghanistan alive – fail to adequately relate to war and western imperialism, and therefore fall short of tracing the formations of subjectivity of women in contemporary Afghanistan. In build…
Afghanistan, Racial Melancholia, and Loss That Exceeds Loss
What does it mean for mourning and racial melancholia to inhabit (and exceed) the geography of Afghanistan, structured by serial wars and serial foreign occupations? As Afghans are subjected to immense forms of loss, what forms of melancholia take hold? This article builds on the critical scholarship on racial melancholia and mourning with a focus on the decades-long (and ongoing) US war and occupation of Afghanistan and considers how to think wi…
Fanboying the Taliban
This article considers the form of the Taliban through their citationality in the white nationalist manosphere as epitomizing the supreme expression of an excess Muslim masculinity. Further, when I track the figure of the Taliban as the figure of the Muslim writ large, I am also tracing the work of liberals and liberalism. Instead of focusing on the manosphere as a singular part of contemporary “culture wars”, as is commonly done, I analyze the w…
Sociology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (3 works) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)