Nosheen Ali

Delusional States (eBook, PDF)

Feeling Rule and Development in Pakistan's Northern Frontier

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108601313
• Artikelnr.: 66178424

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.