ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the currency of grief, to illustrate the process of grieving and healing from grief, through an intimate interconnection with the political work of emotion. It focuses on geopolitics of grief in intimate, national, and global appropriations of grief and Afghan suffering. Mark Duffield's research is of particular note because that details the over linkage between International development and 'structural conflict prevention' that defines the work of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The chapter reviews of the literature about 9/11 grief and the various ways in which it was mediated and shaped to meet a particular representation of the United States nation and nationalistic ideologies of morality, justice, and revenge. Humanitarian aid operates to theoretically reinforce rights-based claims while remaining constrained by the limited ability of organizations to actually orchestrate justice. Human rights concepts are often represented as undeniable and universal.
