Beyond Crisis: Re-evaluating Pakistan

by Khan,Naveeda; Khan,Naveeda

• ISBN13: 9780415480635
• ISBN10: 0415480639
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-04-14
• Publisher: Routledge India

Summary

The essays in this volume complicate the sense of Pakistan as prone to failure. It is recast as a prolonged meditation on the artificiality of the state form, the difficulty of committing to a single nationalist vision, the foreignness that resides within, etc.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

Artificiality of the State

Towards a Lyric History of India

The Politics of Commensuration: The Violence of Partition and the Making of the Pakistani State

A Real Terrorist, An Excerpt from Sayyid Pakistani and the Wedding of the Dead

Re-imagining the 'Land of the Pure': A Sufi Master Reclaims Islamic Orthodoxy and Pakistani Identity

Nationalist Visions

Registering Crisis: Ethnicity in Pakistani Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s

Listening to the Enemy: The Pakistani Army, Violence and Memories of 1971

Strength of the State Meets Strength of the Street: The 1972 Labour Struggle in Karachi

Learning to be Left: Jama'at-I Islami in Pakistan

Foreignnes?

Within

From Muslims to Apostates: The Legal Construction of Muslim Identity and Ahmadi Difference

Words that Wound: Archiving Hate in the Making of Hindu and Muslim Publics in Bombay

Itineraries of Conversion: Judaic Paths to a Muslim Pakistan

Iqbal and Karbala: Re-Reading the Episteme of Martyrdom for a Poetics of Appropriation

The Everyday

Look Who's Talking Now: Voice and Authority in Pakistani Shi'i Women's Gatherings

Madrassa Metrics: The Statistics and Rhetoric of Religious Enrollment in Pakistan

Uncivil Politics and the Appropriation of Planning in Islamabad

What is it to build a Mosque? Or, the Violence of the Ordinary

Afterword

Living the Tensions of the State, the Nation, and the Everyday

Anthropology and the Pakistani National Imaginary

Notes on Contributors

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

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