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Although extensive literature exists on the violence of war, little attention has been given to the ways in which this violence becomes entrenched and normalized in the inner recesses of everyday life. In Afghanistan Remembers, Parin Dossa examines Afghan women's recall of violence through memories and food practices in their homeland and its diaspora. Her work reveals how the suffering and trauma of violence has been rendered socially invisible following decades of life in a war-zone.Dossa argues that it is necessary to acknowledge the impact of violence on the familial lives of Afghan women along with their attempts at recovery under difficult circumstances. Informed by Dossa's own story of family migration and loss, Afghanistan Remembers is a poignant ethnographic account of the trauma of war. She calls on the reader to recognize and bear witness to the impact of deeper forms of violence

Two weeks prior to the complete withdrawal of the United States/NATO troops from Afghanistan on 30 August 2021, the Taliban took over the country. Focusing on the airport scene, the media presented a picture of chaos and volatility, caused by the failure of the US-trained Afghan military force to protect the people. Barely any mention was made of how women sustain their families and communities in everyday life, a site of my ethnographic research conducted in the fall of 2008 and 2009, respectively. To acknowledge women's survival strategies, I focus on testimonial photography, a genre that recognises that the past is present and can be collectively recalled through photographs. Photographs have their own language, motivating us to imagine alternative ways of being. Layered reading of images allows unacknowledged violence to come to light. Viewers are then motivated to engage into critical reflection.

Zwei Wochen vor dem vollständigen Rückzug der US-amerikanischen und NATO-Truppen am 30. August 2021 nahmen die Taliban Kabul ein. Viele Medien lieferten Bilder von Chaos und Unbeständigkeit, vor allem vom Flughafen in Kabul. Begründet wurden diese Zustände damit, dass die von den USA ausgebildeten afghanischen Soldaten daran gescheitert seien, ihr Volk zu beschützen, und außerdem mit einer zu schwachen Regierung. Kaum erwähnt wurde dagegen, wie Frauen familiäre und gemeinschaftliche Netzwerke im Alltag funktionsfähig erhielten - ein Thema, an dem ich bereits 2008 und 2009 in Afghanistan geforscht hatte. Um die Überlebensstrategien afghanischer Frauen zu würdigen, konzentriere ich mich in diesem Beitrag auf fotografiegestütztes Dokumentieren und Bezeugen: Eine Herangehensweise, die anerkennt, dass die Vergangenheit in der Gegenwart lebendig bleibt und kollektiv durch Fotografien erinnert wird. Fotografien sprechen eine ganz eigene Sprache, die dazu auffordert, sich alternative Seinsumstände vorzustellen. Wenn man Fotos wie jene, die Afghanistans jüngere Geschichte dokumentieren, schichtweise deutet, wird zuvor verborgene oder verschleierte Gewalt sichtbar. Dann nehmen Fotos die Betrachtenden in die Pflicht zur kritischen Reflexion.

The literature on disability, gender and "race" has benefited from the political economy perspective. With its emphasis on unmasking the workings of power, this perspective has brought into relief the systemic, institutionalized and spatial oppression of disabled persons, compounded in the case of gender and "race." This narrative of deconstruction, however, remains incomplete in the absence of voice and subjectivity of persons with disabilities. Using narrative moments, recounted by an immigrant woman with two "disabled" children, this paper makes a case for an integrated framework for a study of racialized persons with disabilities. Here, the margins2 are not out there in other spaces; they form part of the centre whose existence is brought into question by alternative and demedicalized spaces. The data are drawn from a larger study of health and well being of South Asian East African women in metropolitan Vancouver, Canada.

Drawing on an ethnographic study of Afghan women in metropolitan Vancouver (2002—05), this article argues that it is necessary to recognize research participants as producers of context-specific knowledge. Afghan women, a disenfranchised population, deploy particular strategies to foreground two interrelated scripts—the political economy of migration and resettlement and the remaking of a world—that help to bridge the analytical divide between the political economy and human agency. Within this blurred space, the women bring forth three themes that speak to policy makers and stakeholders: social provision as entitlement, valorization of the women's multiple identities, and transnational networks that contain but also go beyond the unit of the nation-state. The article concludes by making a case for locally-informed policy and service provision to effect progressive change.

Research context --Storied lives --Precarity as a resource for life and death --Legacies: living and dying --Re-making a home in the diaspora --Negotiating deep divides: foregrounding social palliation --ConclusionSacred traditions: a forum for deep-level conversations.

In Racialized Bodies, Disabling Worlds, Parin Dossa explores the lives of Canadian Muslim women who share their stories of social marginalization and disenfranchisement in a disabling world. She shows how these women, who are subjected to social erasure in policy and research, define their identities and claim their humanity using the language of everyday life. Based on narrative ethnography, Racialized Bodies, Disabling Worlds makes a case for positive acknowledgement of perceived differences of nationality, religion, multiple-abilities, and gendered and race-based identities. It offers a powerful argument for bridging two disparate bodies of work: disability studies and anti-racist feminism. Most significantly, it shows how racialized Muslim women with disabilities are redefining the parameters of their social worlds and developing a distinctively pluralistic understanding of abilities. This ground-breaking work gives presence to the lives of people who are otherwise rendered socially invisible