阿富汗:重建路漫漫

2001年10月7日,美军对阿富汗发动了空袭行动,就此拉开了"反恐战争"的序幕.在阿富汗北方联盟配合下,美军迅速推翻了塔利班.2002年11月,在联合国特使普拉西米主持下,阿富汗问题多方磋商会议在德国波恩举行,阿富汗四个主要派别的代表参加会议,并于12月5日签署了关于建立阿过渡政府的协议,阿富汗重建正式启动.5年来,美国一直把阿富汗标榜为"向民主过渡的典范",将阿富汗重建作为用民主改造伊斯兰世界的"样板工程".然而,5年过去了,这个国家的"民主法治"局面仅能维持在首都喀布尔,其他地区同塔利班统治时期无甚区别.那些5年前曾经对国家前途寄予厚望的阿富汗人,如今发现西方人为他们描绘的自由民主的阿富汗不过是乌托邦.     

African-Caribbean women, (post)? Diaspora,and the meaning of home

ABSTRACT

Drawing on bell hooks, Audre Lorde and Carole Boyce-Davies, this paper develops an ethical framework to provide a gendered analysis of relative power inside and outside the home. In doing so, it considers the ways in which our view of home as African-Caribbean women, impacts our understanding of '(post) diaspora' (Dunn, Leith, and Suzanne Scafe. 2019. “African-Caribbean Women: Migration, Diaspora, Post-Diaspora.” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies 13: 1–16) in the UK. Insofar as home is central to the idea of diaspora, I suggest that home must be conceptualised as an interdependent 'adult's' home rather than a dependent 'child's' home. On this reading, in the context of global power relations, I caution that while offering a useful and necessary point of departure from diaspora, the use of 'post' could be deployed to undermine an unapologetically intersectional black politics. As such, I claim the (Post) Diaspora Network's methodology, rather than the term itself, best demonstrates the liberatory intent and importance of a (post) diaspora subjectivity.