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SUMMARY:Afghanistan: Security, Gender, and Development 2001-2021
DESCRIPTION:
 Presenter: Jennifer L. Fluri is Professor and 
 Chair of the Department of Geography at the University 
 of Colorado-Boulder.\n
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 This presentation 
 provides an overview of the US-led economic 
 development projects and programs in Afghanistan 
 that focused on increasing women's 
 education, political and economic participation 
 in society. This overview includes a critical 
 examination of the challenges, opportunities, 
 and failures of these interventions, and 
 the limited opportunities for women in Taliban 
 controlled contemporary Afghanistan.\n
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 Jennifer 
 L. Fluri is Professor and Chair of the 
 Department of Geography at the University of 
 Colorado-Boulder. She is a political geographer 
 interested in gender, geopolitics, international 
 assistance, economic development, and 
 conflict in Afghanistan. She has published over 
 thirty peer reviewed journal articles and 
 book chapters. Her publications also include 
 three co-authored books and one co-edited book. 
 She is the co-author of The Carpetbaggers 
 of Kabul and other American-Afghan Entanglements, 
 published in 2017 by University of Georgia 
 Press as part of the Geographies of Social 
 Justice series. She is one of four co-authors 
 of the 2017 book Feminist Spaces: Gender and 
 Geography in a Global Context published by 
 Routledge, and co-author of Engendering Development: 
 Capitalism and Inequality in the Global 
 Economy. \n
 Register here: https://msu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bIg6y99xSWG0dhDJ369JLA\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: public\n
 Contact name: Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial 
 Sciences\n
 Contact email: Guo Chen\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 https://geo.msu.edu/news-events/events/2021-10-29.html\n
LOCATION:online
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