South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal Dorronsoro, Gilles (2007) ‘Kabul at War (1992-1996): State, Ethnicity and Social Classes’, South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, URL : http://samaj.revues.org/document212.html. To quote a passage, use paragraph (§). Kabul at War (1992-1996): State, Ethnicity and Social Classes Gilles Dorronsoro Abstract. Kabul witnessed especially violent fights during the 1992-95 period. This article explains how, after the destruction of the state in 1992 following the fall of the communist regime, the city became a theatre of conflict between various armed groups. Contrary to popular opinion, the conflict in Kabul was not the product of irrational ethnic cleavages but the unanticipated consequence of rational strategies. More specifically, the city became a metaphor for the state, a central economic stake, and a place where opposing social groups fought each other. Dorronsoro, Gilles (2007) ‘Kabul at War (1992-1996): State, Ethnicity and Social Classes’, South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, URL : http://samaj.revues.org/document212.html. To quote a passage, use paragraph (§). [1] This article focuses on the 1992-1996 period of the Afghan civil war. During these four crucial years, Kabul evolved as a small-scale, yet distorted, model of Afghanistan itself. Indeed, it was the place where the armed actors tried to define the country's future political system and where social and communal conflicts crystallized. The following pages attempt to grasp this process by analyzing the city as a spatial metaphor of the state, as a place wherein communal identities were redefined, as an economical gamble, and, finally, as the centre for the urban/rural confrontation1.
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