Delusional States

Feeling Rule and Development in Pakistan's Northern Frontier

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Gebonden, 325 blz. | Engels
Cambridge University Press | e druk, 2019
ISBN13: 9781108497442
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Delusional States is the first in-depth study of state-making and social change in Gilgit-Baltistan, a Shia-majority region of Sunni-dominated Pakistan and a contested border area that forms part of disputed Kashmir. For over seven decades, the territorial conflict over Kashmir has locked India and Pakistan in brutal wars and hate-centred nationalisms. The book illuminates how within this story of hate lie other stories - of love and betrayal, loyalty and suspicion, beauty and terror - that help us grasp how the Kashmir conflict is affectively structured and experienced on the ground. Placing these emotions at the centre of its analysis, the book rethinks the state-citizen relation in deeply felt and intimate terms, offering a multi-layered ethnographic understanding of power and subjection in contemporary Pakistan.

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ISBN13:9781108497442
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Gebonden
Aantal pagina's:325

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List of maps and figures; Acknowledgements List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Representation and Repression: 1. Unimagined communities in the eco-body of the nation; 2. Loyalty, suspicion, sacrifice: feeling and force under militarism; Part II. Education and the Politics of Faith: 3. Challenging school textbooks: the sectarian making of national Islam; 4. Sectarian imaginaries and poetic publics; Part III. Saving Nature, Saving People: 5. The nature of development: neoliberal environments and pastoral visions; 6. Books vs. bombs? Humanitarian education, empire, and the narrative of terror; Conclusion: the great media game; Bibliography; Index.

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