Fatima Mojaddedi

Shelter for the Night is an ethnographic meditation on language and psychic life in 2010s Afghanistan, where militarised violence has collapsed social worlds. Across Kabul and the countryside, in poetic and probing style, the book unpacks the precarious relationship between language, violence, and the self. As social and political worlds fracture through militarised violence, economic speculation, interpersonal sabotage, and ruptures...

Shelter for the Night is an ethnographic meditation on language and psychic life in 2010s Afghanistan, where militarised violence has collapsed social worlds. Across Kabul and the countryside, in a poetic and probing style, the book unpacks the precarious relationship between language, violence, and the self. As social and political worlds fracture through militarised violence, economic speculation, interpersonal sabotage, and...