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UNINA9910829045403321 |
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Titolo |
Crisis and beyond : re-evaluating Pakistan / / editor, Naveeda Khan |
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New Delhi ; ; London, : Routledge, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-51758-8 |
1-280-66246-8 |
9786613639394 |
1-136-51759-6 |
0-203-15150-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (604 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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KhanNaveeda Ahmed <1969-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Religion and politics - Pakistan |
Pakistan History |
Pakistan Politics and government |
Pakistan Social conditions |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Beyond Crisis: Re-evaluating Pakistan; Copyright; Contents; Glossary; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Artificiality of the State; 1 Towards a Lyric History of India; 2 The Politics of Commensuration: The Violence of Partition and the Making of the Pakistani State; 3 A Real Terrorist; 4 Reimagining the 'Land of the Pure': A Sufi Master Reclaims Islamic Orthodoxy and Pakistani Identity; Part II The Difficulty of Nationalist Visions; 5 Registering Crisis: Ethnicity in Pakistani Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s |
6 Listening to the Enemy: The Pakistan Army, Violence and Memories of 19717 Strength of the State Meets the Strength of the Street: The 1972 Labour Struggle in Karachi; 8 Jama'at-e-Islami Pakistan: Learning from the Left; Part III Foreignness Within; 9 The Paradoxes of Ahmadiyya Identity: Legal Appropriation of Muslim-ness and the Construction of Ahmadiyya Difference; 10 Words that Wound: Archiving Hate in the Making of Hindu-Indian and Muslim-Pakistani Publics in Bombay; 11 Itineraries of Conversion: Judaic Paths to a Muslim Pakistan; 12 Iqbal and Karbala; Part IV The Everyday |
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13 Look Who's Talking Now: Voice and Authority in Pakistani Shi'i Women's Gatherings14 Madrasa Metrics: The Statistics and Rhetoric of Religious Enrolment in Pakistan; 15 Uncivil Politics and the Appropriation of Planning in Islamabad; 16 Mosque Construction or the Violence of the Ordinary; Afterwords; Living the Tensions of the State, the Nation and Everyday Life; Anthropology and the Pakistani National Imaginary; Bibliography; Note on the Editor; Notes on Contributors; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Through the essays in this volume, we see how the failure of the state becomes a moment to ruminate on the artificiality of this most modern construct, the failure of nationalism, an opportunity to dream of alternative modes of association, and the failure of sovereignty to consider the threats and possibilities of the realm of foreignness within the nation-state as within the self. The ambition of this volume is not only to complicate standing representations of Pakistan. It is take Pakistan out of the status of exceptionalism that its multiple crises have endowed upon it. By now, m |
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