Delusional States

Feeling Rule and Development in Pakistan's Northern Frontier

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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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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Utgivningsdatum2019-09-19
Mått163 x 232 x 26 mm
Vikt550 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor325
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108497442

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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.

'Delusional States is a theoretically sophisticated book written with courage and conviction. It covers an underwritten and under-analysed part of Pakistan, the Gilgit-Baltistan region. The text brings forward the lives, struggles, and histories of the people of the region and moves away from its folkloric and touristic representations. Beautifully written, at times in poetic prose, through a discussion of love, loyalty, betrayal, and terror, this book emphasizes the resolve of the people who have stood up to the subjugating policies of the post-colonial Pakistani state linked to the expansionist politics of the Empire.' Kamran Asdar Ali, University of Texas, Austin