Presenter: Jennifer L. Fluri is Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

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.

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.
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Location:	online
Price:	free
Sponsor:	public
Contact:	Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences Guo Chen
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