Beyond Long-Distance Nationalism: Khorasan and the Re-imagination of Afghanistan

This article explores the geographical imagination of diasporic activists from Afghanistan. It examines the significance of the historic-geographic region of Khorasan for their attempts to re-imagine Afghanistan and its place in the region and wider world. The article documents ethnographically the...

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Published inComparative studies in society and history Vol. 67; no. 1; pp. 90 - 115
Main Author Marsden, Magnus
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, USA Cambridge University Press 01.01.2025
Subjects
Spatial Projects
Khorasan
mobility
Afghanistan
geographical imagination
diaspora
ethnonationalism
popular sovereignty
transregional
intellectual exchange
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ISSN0010-4175
1475-2999
DOI10.1017/S0010417524000318

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Summary:This article explores the geographical imagination of diasporic activists from Afghanistan. It examines the significance of the historic-geographic region of Khorasan for their attempts to re-imagine Afghanistan and its place in the region and wider world. The article documents ethnographically the forms of intellectual exchange in which these intellectual-activists participate, and their modes of materializing the geographical imagination of Khorasan in everyday life. Rather than analyzing their geographical imagination solely through the lens of ethnicity, it treats it as reflecting the activists’ underlying yearning for sovereign agency and as an attempt to forge politically recognizable subjects capable of action.
ISSN:0010-4175
1475-2999
DOI:10.1017/S0010417524000318