Description
Product ID: | 9781108497442 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Delusional States |
Subtitle: | Feeling Rule and Development in Pakistan's Northern Frontier |
Authors: | Author: Nosheen Ali |
Page Count: | 325 |
Subjects: | Constitution: government and the state, Constitution: government & the state |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2019-09-19 |