Nosheen Ali

Delusional States

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first in-depth study of state power and social struggle in Gilgit-Baltistan, a contested border zone that forms part of disputed Kashmir. The book movingly captures citizenship struggles in present-day Pakistan, offering distinct contributions to studies of militarism, Muslim cultural politics, and development in South Asia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9781108497442
• ISBN-10: 1108497446
• Artikelnr.: 55186518

Autorenporträt

Nosheen Ali teaches at the Institute for Educational Development, Aga Khan University, Pakistan. She is the founder of Umang Poetry, a digital humanities archive for documenting contemporary poetic knowledge in South Asia, and Karti Dharti, an alternative learning space for ecological inquiry.

Inhaltsangabe

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.