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Anila Daulatzai of Baltimore was taken into custody and charged with disorderly conduct, failure to obey a reasonable and lawful order, disturbing the peace, obstructing and hindering a police officer and resisting arrest, said Lt. Kevin Ayd of the Maryland Transportation Authority Police.

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Anila Daulatzai is a socio-cultural anthropologist with active research projects in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Her current interests primarily circulate around the themes of war and humanitarianism, as well as the related themes of violence and care. She was trained at UCLA in Public Health and in Islamic Studies, and completed her PhD in Socio-cultural Anthropology in 2013 from the Johns Hopkins University.

Teaching at Harvard Divinity School: Currently Anila Daulatzai is teaching a graduate-level seminar course titled ‘Talibanization’ and its other. This course does not focus on the history of the Taliban movement (or movements described as ‘Taliban-like’), but more importantly on the performative nature of the term ‘Talibanization’. The course explores what deploying the term enables, particularly in the highly militarized contexts of the United States, Afghanistan and Pakistan. As an antithesis of democracy, human rights and women’s rights, ‘Talibanization’ functions as a threat to freedom, democracy, modernity, etc. ‘Talibanization’ is thus a signifier for what? By exploring the term, and its uses with regards to intended affects as well as the spectral presence of ‘Talibanization’ as a global threat, the course complicates students’ understandings of the contemporary role of religion, state, everyday life and the extraordinary in the United States, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and beyond. In particular, the course explores how formations of liberalism, feminism, and secularism give life to a term like ‘Talibanization’, and the violence that is enabled and justified by its deployment. Explorations of the ‘liberal’ and the ‘secular’ and of how they are constituted in particular contexts thus form a core aspect of this course.

https://scholar.harvard.edu/aniladaulatzai/biocv

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