Delusional states : feeling rule and development in Pakistan's northern frontier / Nosheen Ali.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ali, Nosheen, 1980- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conflict management--India--Jammu and Kashmir.

Conflict management.

Nationalism--Pakistan.

Nationalism.

Pakistan.

Nationalism--India.

India.

Islam--Pakistan.

Islam.

Gilgit-Baltistān (Pakistan)--History.

Gilgit-Baltistān (Pakistan).

Gilgit-Baltistān (Pakistan)--Social conditions.

Gilgit-Baltistān (Pakistan)--Politics and government.

Jammu and Kashmir (India)--History.

Jammu and Kashmir (India).

Jammu and Kashmir (India)--Politics and government.

Pakistan--Foreign relations--India.

International relations.

India--Foreign relations--Pakistan.

Pakistan--Gilgit-Baltistān.

India--Jammu and Kashmir.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 304 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

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-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"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-296) and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781108497442

1108497446

OCLC:

1085963640