Browsing by Subject "Afghanistan"
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A Post‐Area Studies Approach to the Study of Hill Irrigation across the Alai – Pamir – Karakoram – Himalaya
Hill, Joe (2012-06)Due to the geo-political history of the mountainous region stretching from the Alai in the south of Kyrgyzstan to the north-western Himalaya of India, language barriers, and also perhaps the nature of traditional area ... -
Being a muhajir in present-day Afghanistan – Views on flight and migration from inside
Wenzel, Christoph (2013-07)In this paper I focus on the internal discourse of those Afghans who are refugees within their country today. I want to show how the use of a certain vocabulary is crucial for the creation of particular perspectives on ... -
Beyond kinship and tribe: New forms of solidarity and interest representation in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan
Kandiwal, Wali Mohammad (2016-12)In this paper, I show that the establishment of unauthorized settlements on government land in the newly urbanizing peripheries of Jalalabad – the second-fastest growing city of Afghanistan – corresponded with the emergence ... -
Child labor and conflict: Evidence from Afghanistan
Kofol, Chiara; Ciarli, Tommaso (2017-07)We study the impact of conflict on both the extensive and the intensive margin of child labor in Afghanistan. We identify and test two main mechanisms. First, if conflict reduces a household income through a decline in ... -
Gendered realms: Species of spaces in the city of Mazār-i Šarīf, Northern Afghanistan
Durdu, Ayfer (2014-04)This paper is an attempt at an inventory — alas, certainly not as poetic as Perec's. A number of distinctive spaces in urban Mazār-i Šarīf are described, each of which is deeply affected by gender divides. The inquiry ... -
Die geostrategische Bedeutung Afghanistans aus Sicht der USA: Kontinuität und Wandel von 1979-2008
Voje, Julian (2014-06-12)Afghanistan führte Eroberer selten zum Sieg, aber oft in den Ruin: Seit über zweitausend Jahren scheiterten Armeen am Hindukusch. Makedonien, Persien, Großbritannien, Russland – dies sind nur einige Nationen und Reiche, ... -
Nachweis und Einfluss einer möglichen autochthonen Übertragung des West-Nil-Virus in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Jäger, Annette Claudia (2009-07-15)Nachdem während der Oderflut im Jahr 1997 das West Nil Fieber Virus (WNV) in Menschen und Stechmücken in der Region Mähren, Tschechische Republik, nachgewiesen wurde und im Jahr 1999 die fulminante Ausbreitung in der Neuen ... -
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Shift and Drift in Hazara Ethnic Consciousness: The Impact of Conflict and Migration
Ibrahimi, Niamatullah (2012-09-27)The paper argues that ethnicity and ethnic consciousness among the Hazaras is inexorably linked with the emergence of the Afghan state in the end of the nineteenth century and the crisis and instability that it has gone ... -
Translocal Lives: Patterns of Migration in Afghanistan
Schetter, Conrad (2012-01-03)We generally associate civil wars with flows of refugees. We tend to give much less consideration to the way in which patterns of migration that arise as a result of violent conflicts, especially long-lasting ones, take ... -
Water availability and demand analysis in the Kabul River Basin, Afghanistan
Akhtar, Fazlullah (2017-08-08)Kabul River Basin (KRB), the most populated and highly heterogenic river basin of Afghanistan is the lifeline of millions of people in terms of supplying them with water for agricultural, municipal, and industrial as well ... -
Zur Epidemiologie der Malaria in der Provinz Kunduz, Nordafghanistan von 2002 bis 2007
Hoffmann, Ralf Uwe (2010-12-08)Die im Rahmen dieser Arbeit durchgeführten Untersuchungen haben gezeigt, dass der Beginn der Rückkehr der afghanischen Bürgerkriegsflüchtlinge, insbesondere aus den Malaria-Endemiegebieten Pakistans, zweifelsfrei zu einem ...