Fatima Mojaddedi
Biographic Data
| ID | 822897 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fatima Mojaddedi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fatima |
| FAMILY NAME | Mojaddedi |
| SIGNATURE | MOJADDEDI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-3211-4721 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Notes on the Wire: Telegraphic Opening and Ideology in Modern Afghanistan
This article considers the cultural and political force of the telegraph in early twentieth-century Afghanistan where new media technology influenced the social milieu and transformed the sense of contemporary consciousness. I consider how wired and wireless telegraphy were interwoven with Allied imperial aims in the inter-war years and specifically how they became a much-anticipated medium of global connectivity and of ideological anxiety and po…
“Where it was, I must come into being”
This article considers the problem of translation and radical interpretation from a post-structuralist and psychoanalytic perspective, and challenges the notion of concept, language, and difference being mobilized by Philip Swift
Ground War: Soil, Supplements, and Suffering in Afghanistan
This paper considers the place of the earthen ground in modern and modernist Afghan history and its relation to contemporary violence. I undertake an analysis of the place of the ground in twentieth century developmental schemes; the relationship between synthetic fertilisers and explosive devices; and the resurgence of corporeal and social violence. By considering the role of agricultural practices – like the use of synthetic and nitrogenous fer…
Landkrieg. Boden, Zusätze und Leid in Afghanistan
In diesem Artikel lenke ich die Aufmerksamkeit darauf, inwiefern der afghanische Erdboden und das, was aus ihm genommen und ihm zugesetzt wird, mit gegenwärtiger Gewalt im Land zu tun hat. Ich betrachte, wo und wie der Erdboden in Modernisierungskonzepten des 20. Jahrhunderts vorkam; wie Ackerdüngung und Sprengsätze zusammenhängen; und wie sich all das heute in physischem und sozialem Leiden niederschlägt. Zunächst schaue ich agrikulturelle Prakt…
The Closing
This essay is an ethnographic analysis of the violent world of translation in Kabul, Afghanistan, and the provinces referred to in the general idiom of "the countryside" by Afghan translators who encounter rural subjects as part of an international military campaign. It begins with the tragedy of translation as an elegiac matter of the heart closing, and it attempts to understand the metaphor of closure alongside that of strangeness and (un)trans…
The Closing
This essay is an ethnographic analysis of the violent world of translation in Kabul, Afghanistan, and the provinces referred to in the general idiom of "the countryside" by Afghan translators who encounter rural subjects as part of an international military campaign. It begins with the tragedy of translation as an elegiac matter of the heart closing, and it attempts to understand the metaphor of closure alongside that of strangeness and (un)trans…
The Closing
This essay is an ethnographic analysis of the violent world of translation in Kabul, Afghanistan, and the provinces referred to in the general idiom of "the countryside" by Afghan translators who encounter rural subjects as part of an international military campaign. It begins with the tragedy of translation as an elegiac matter of the heart closing, and it attempts to understand the metaphor of closure alongside that of strangeness and (un)trans…
“Where it was, I must come into being”
This article considers the problem of translation and radical interpretation from a post-structuralist and psychoanalytic perspective, and challenges the notion of concept, language, and difference being mobilized by Philip Swift
Ground War: Soil, Supplements, and Suffering in Afghanistan
This paper considers the place of the earthen ground in modern and modernist Afghan history and its relation to contemporary violence. I undertake an analysis of the place of the ground in twentieth century developmental schemes; the relationship between synthetic fertilisers and explosive devices; and the resurgence of corporeal and social violence. By considering the role of agricultural practices – like the use of synthetic and nitrogenous fer…
Landkrieg. Boden, Zusätze und Leid in Afghanistan
In diesem Artikel lenke ich die Aufmerksamkeit darauf, inwiefern der afghanische Erdboden und das, was aus ihm genommen und ihm zugesetzt wird, mit gegenwärtiger Gewalt im Land zu tun hat. Ich betrachte, wo und wie der Erdboden in Modernisierungskonzepten des 20. Jahrhunderts vorkam; wie Ackerdüngung und Sprengsätze zusammenhängen; und wie sich all das heute in physischem und sozialem Leiden niederschlägt. Zunächst schaue ich agrikulturelle Prakt…
Notes on the Wire: Telegraphic Opening and Ideology in Modern Afghanistan
This article considers the cultural and political force of the telegraph in early twentieth-century Afghanistan where new media technology influenced the social milieu and transformed the sense of contemporary consciousness. I consider how wired and wireless telegraphy were interwoven with Allied imperial aims in the inter-war years and specifically how they became a much-anticipated medium of global connectivity and of ideological anxiety and po…
Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Afghan (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works)