Re/presenting Afghans in Hindi cinema: the popular geopolitics of India-Afghanistan relations

IF 2.2 Q2 GEOGRAPHY

SPACE AND POLITY Pub Date : 2022-09-02 DOI:10.1080/13562576.2022.2138311

Chayanika Saxena

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Abstract

ABSTRACT I analyse two Hindi movies shot in Afghanistan - Khuda Gawah (1992) and Kabul Express (2006) - to demonstrate the salience of Hindi cinema as a site where Indian foreign policies are re/presented (presented and re-presented). Accordingly, I have identified two tropes. The first trope, signifying presentation, relates to an ethnic synecdoche in which Afghans are equated with Pathans. The second trope, demonstrating re-presentation, illustrates a deviation vis-à-vis the Indian foreign policies on Afghanistan by way of inserting the enemy Taliban into the moral universe of the cinematic Self. I also discuss select aesthetics of Hindi cinema to show how they can further add to the study of critical geopolitics.

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在印度电影中再现阿富汗人:印阿关系的流行地缘政治

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SPACE AND POLITY GEOGRAPHY-

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4.10

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期刊介绍： Space & Polity is a fully refereed scholarly international journal devoted to the theoretical and empirical understanding of the changing relationships between the state, and regional and local forms of governance. The journal provides a forum aimed particularly at bringing together social scientists currently working in a variety of disciplines, including geography, political science, sociology, economics, anthropology and development studies and who have a common interest in the relationships between space, place and politics in less developed as well as the advanced economies.