Institutionalized intervention: The ‘bunker politics’ of international aid in Afghanistan
Afghanistan has come to be seen as emblematic of the security threats besetting peace and security operations, and in this article we consider the response to such threats via the ‘bunkering’ of international staff. Drawing on an in-depth qualitative survey with aid and peacebuilding officials in Ka...
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| description | Afghanistan has come to be seen as emblematic of the security threats besetting peace and security operations, and in this article we consider the response to such threats via the ‘bunkering’ of international staff. Drawing on an in-depth qualitative survey with aid and peacebuilding officials in Kabul, we illustrate how seemingly mundane risk management procedures have negative consequences for intervening institutions; for the relation between interveners and national actors; and for the purpose of intervention itself. Bunkering, we argue, is deeply political – ‘imprisoning’ staff behind ramparts while generating an illusion of presence and control for ill-conceived modes of international intervention. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:a24f91d8-1f51-49f5-8b1c-e4e88bb6f10c2022-03-27T02:19:14ZInstitutionalized intervention: The ‘bunker politics’ of international aid in AfghanistanJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:a24f91d8-1f51-49f5-8b1c-e4e88bb6f10cSymplectic Elements at OxfordTaylor and Francis2019Weigand, FAndersson, RAfghanistan has come to be seen as emblematic of the security threats besetting peace and security operations, and in this article we consider the response to such threats via the ‘bunkering’ of international staff. Drawing on an in-depth qualitative survey with aid and peacebuilding officials in Kabul, we illustrate how seemingly mundane risk management procedures have negative consequences for intervening institutions; for the relation between interveners and national actors; and for the purpose of intervention itself. Bunkering, we argue, is deeply political – ‘imprisoning’ staff behind ramparts while generating an illusion of presence and control for ill-conceived modes of international intervention. |
| spellingShingle | Weigand, F Andersson, R Institutionalized intervention: The ‘bunker politics’ of international aid in Afghanistan |
| title | Institutionalized intervention: The ‘bunker politics’ of international aid in Afghanistan |
| title_full | Institutionalized intervention: The ‘bunker politics’ of international aid in Afghanistan |
| title_fullStr | Institutionalized intervention: The ‘bunker politics’ of international aid in Afghanistan |
| title_full_unstemmed | Institutionalized intervention: The ‘bunker politics’ of international aid in Afghanistan |
| title_short | Institutionalized intervention: The ‘bunker politics’ of international aid in Afghanistan |
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