Devine, James wrote:
wouldn't it be more accurate to say "pre-modern" instead of "post-modern"? It seems that Afghanistan hasn't had the modernist nationalist revolution of the sort that (say) France had, creating "the French" and the French nation-state.
Yeah, but the Taliban were also created by the U.S., Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the collapse of the USSR, etc. Very polycentric, though hardly plurivocal.
Doug
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