ISBN:
9781108609166
,
1108609163
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xiii, 304 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
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Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Nationalbewusstsein
;
Minderheitenfrage
;
Gilgit-Baltistan
;
Gilgit District (Pakistan) / Politics and government
;
Baltistān District (Pakistan) / Politics and government
;
Gilgit-Baltistan
;
Minderheitenfrage
;
Nationalbewusstsein
Abstract:
Delusional States: Feeling Rule and Development in Pakistan's Northern Frontier is the first in-depth study of state power and social struggle in Gilgit-Baltistan - the only Shia-majority region of Sunni-dominated Pakistan and a contested border zone that forms part of disputed Kashmir. For seven decades, the political conflict over Kashmir has locked India and Pakistan in brutal wars and hate-centered nationalisms. This book illuminates how within this story of hate lie other stories - of love and betrayal, loyalty and suspicion, and beauty and terror. Placing these emotionalities at the centre of its analysis, Delusional States rethinks the state-citizen relation in deeply felt and intimate terms, offering a fine-grained ethnographic analysis of power and subjection in contemporary Pakistan. A powerful contribution to studies of state-making and Muslim sociality in South Asia, the book additionally offers distinct theoretical insights in the fields of social movements, political ecology, education, and global development studies
Note:
954.91/3
,
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 May 2019)
DOI:
10.1017/9781108609166
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