Delusional states :
Ali, Nosheen
Delusional states : feeling rule and development in Pakistan's northern frontier / Nosheen Ali - India Cambridge University Press 2019 - 304 p.
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.
9781108497442
Pakistan--Gilgit-Baltistān
Pakistan--Gilgit District
Pakistan--Baltistān District
Politics and government
954.9130 ALI-N
Delusional states : feeling rule and development in Pakistan's northern frontier / Nosheen Ali - India Cambridge University Press 2019 - 304 p.
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.
9781108497442
Pakistan--Gilgit-Baltistān
Pakistan--Gilgit District
Pakistan--Baltistān District
Politics and government
954.9130 ALI-N