چكيده لاتين :
After 9/11, a democracy discourse replaced the Taliban
which had previously turned into a dominant discourse
through creating an antagonistic relationship against
Mojahedin and marginalizing them. The democracy
discourse created its identity through articulating signifiers
such as "people", "freedom", "human rights", "womenʹs
rights", "campaign against terrorism", and "fighting against
growing opium poppies", i.e. through negating the identity
of the Taliban which had articulated signifiers such as
"Sharia", "theocracy"" "security" "limiting women",
"growing opium poppies", etc. After about a decade of the
life of democracy in Afghanistan, the most important limits
it is facing are discursive ones. In other words, the meanings
this discourse attributed to signifiers such "people", "human
rights", "freedom", "women", etc. are 110t easily acceptable
by the traditional society of Afghanistan. The competing
discourses, Mojahedin and Taliban, are barriers for the
hegemony of democracy in Afghanistan
