Delusional states : feeling rule and development in Pakistan's northern frontier /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2019]
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| Summary: | 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-centered 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 center of its analysis, the book rethinks the state-citizen relation in deeply felt and intimate terms, offering a multilayered ethnographic understanding of power and subjection in contemporary Pakistan. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 304 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-296) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108497442 1108497446 |