The Burqa-clad woman, terror and the postcolony
The Kabul Beauty School and the art of imperial friendship and freedom
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12918921 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jaouad El Habbouch (0000-0001-7348-9319, Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 560-576 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Studies on Terrorism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-9161 • E-ISSN: 1753-9153 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17539153.2023.2234707 |
| OpenAlex | W4384824079 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 26 |
The Kabul Beauty School: The Art of Friendship and Freedom (2008) is a memoir written by the American beautician, Deborah Rodriguez. It recounts her individual story in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban and the work Western programs of “economic empowerment” and humanitarian agencies of “social emancipation” have done to “reconstruct” the war-torn nation. This involvement in the raw, however, does not exist in some kind of political vacuum. The leaders of these global programs of humanitarian action and “sustainable development” represent an array of neo-compradors: social enterprisers and partisan actors, selling “the burqa-clad woman” of Afghanistan the illusion of economic independence and “social emancipation” through local micro-projects and self-employment initiatives. The language of these agencies of social entrepreneurship and humanitarian service offers a wide-ranging discursive domain within which post-9/11 “counter-terroristic formations” (Boehmer and Morton 2010, 7) thrived in an explosion of distinct discursivities, taking form in pedagogy, morality, sexuality, medical care, philanthropy, beauty industry, women’s emancipation, human rights activism and international security and safety measures. These regimes of knowledge and expertise provide important sites of critical inquiry through which counter-terror can be conceptually subverted and discursively deconstructed as part of a larger system of global control and management, within which neo-liberal politics operate at the interface between the metropolis and the postcolony
Beauty · Emancipation · Friendship · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
Postcolonialism
Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister
Imagining Afghanistan
Discipline and Punish
Epistemic Racism/Sexism, Westernized Universities and the Four Genocides/Epistemicides of the Long Sixteenth Century
The Post-Colonial State in the Era of Capitalist Globalization
Muslim Women, Transnational Feminism and the Ethics of Pedagogy
Post-Colonial Studies
The Burqa in Vogue
Under Western Eyes
Provisional notes on the postcolony
Of monsters
Liberal Feminism
Of Mimicry and Man
Humanitarianism with a neo-liberal face
Writing the Range
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason
Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others
The Biopower of Beauty
Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |