Revista de Estudios Sociales

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Continuities and Ruptures in the Discourses of the Afghan War: Intellectuals, Politicians, and Soldiers

No. 47 (2013-09-01)
  • Tomás Leyton
https://doi.org/10.7440/res47.2013.11

Abstract

This work seeks to establish continuities and ruptures between the discourses related to the war in Afghanistan by intellectuals, politicians, and soldiers. Soldiers were questioned through the Afghan War Diary filtered by Wikileaks, and the conceptual construction of the discourse of politicians was based on the National Security Strategy and other relevant documents. One of the most important findings is the naming of the enemy. While soldiers use the word Taliban, politicians use terrorist, and intellectuals use the word “insurgents”, showing heterogeneity and little discursive penetration among actors.

Keywords: Taliban, insurgency, terrorism, discourse analysis

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