This review examines the analytical interventions of three new books on Afghanistan released in 2020. Each book uniquely traces the ways in which knowledge around Afghanistan has been intimately tied with imperial geopolitical agendas. Through employing discursive analysis, media content analysis, critical readings of the archive, and sustained ethnographic methods, these three books collectively constitute an important turning point in the study of Afghanistan. In making visible how knowledge and power intersect in novels, A film, military handbooks, and in the minutiae of Afghans' everyday lives, these three books mark a renewed call to rehumanize a population that has long preoccupied Western academic and political domains.

这篇评论审查了 2020 年出版的三本关于阿富汗的新书的分析干预。每本书都独特地追溯了阿富汗周围的知识与帝国地缘政治议程密切相关的方式。通过运用话语分析、媒体内容分析、档案的批判性阅读和持续的民族志方法，这三本书共同构成了阿富汗研究的重要转折点。通过在小说、电影、军事手册和阿富汗人的日常生活细节中展示知识和权力的交集，这三本书标志着重新呼吁对长期以来占据西方学术和政治领域的人口进行重新人性化。