Photographic Memory of Kabul City: A Deployed Geographer's Perspective - Softcover

Pavlovic, Zoran

Softcover

ISBN 10: 152386107X ISBN 13: 9781523861071

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

Kabul, an urban area of nearly five million residents and the capital city of Afghanistan, is wrapped in urban mystique. Many people talk about it, particularly when assembling to conquer or defend it, yet few truly understand its role in the context of Afghanistan’s nationhood, security, economy, and ethnic relations. Kabul City’s importance has also evaded closer attention from the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) for nearly a decade. This changed in 2011, when the author began publishing his research and alerting ISAF, multiple intelligence agencies, the U.S. State Department, and NGOs about the consequences of Kabul City’s evolution and geographic expansion. This book is a photographic memory of that work, with 167 photographs, maps, and a narrative that unveils a mysterious place in many ways. The photographs are the foundation of the book and the primary purpose of the text is to support and explain them. The author’s message is comprehensive. It explains how (human) geography as a discipline, and a geographer as a professional, can assist military and intelligence efforts in an applied way and put human geography into an operational context. Simultaneously, it also presents the cultural transition of the Afghan capital and how rapidly it changed within the period of a decade, much of which is documented in the record of cultural landscape change.

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About the Author

Zoran “Zok” Pavlovic is a professional geographer who, as a Department of the Army Civilian, served at the Consolidated Stability Operations Center (CSOC) in Kabul City, Afghanistan, in 2011-12. This book chronicles his 16 month effort, including geographic field work, related to innovative analytical approaches in developing and improving military intelligence product lines, and the analysis of the Afghan capital’s cultural landscape.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 152386107X
• ISBN 13: 9781523861071
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 246