Sovereign attachments : masculinity, Muslimness, and affective politics in Pakistan / Shenila Khoja-Moolji.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khoja-Moolji, Shenila, 1982- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sovereignty--Religious aspects--Islam.

Sovereignty.

Identity politics--Pakistan.

Identity politics.

Masculinity--Political aspects.

Masculinity.

Pakistan--Politics and government.

Pakistan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Sovereign Attachments rethinks sovereignty by moving it out of the exclusive domain of geopolitics and legality, and into cultural, religious, and gender studies. Through a close reading of a stunning array of cultural texts produced by the Pakistani state and the Pakistan-based Taliban, Khoja-Moolji theorizes sovereignty as an ongoing attachment negotiated in public culture. Both the state and the Taliban recruit publics into relationships of trust, protection, and fraternity by summoning models of Islamic masculinity, mobilizing kinship metaphors, and marshalling affect. In particular, masculinity and Muslimness emerge as salient performances through which sovereign attachments are harnessed. The book shifts the discussion of sovereignty away from questions around absolute dominance to ones about shared repertoires, entanglements, and co-constitution.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Public Lives of Sovereignty

Part One. Sovereign Islamo-Masculinities

1. Narrating the Sovereign

2. Identity, Alterity

3. Competing Sovereigns

Part Two Stylizing Political Attachments

4. Subordinated Femininities

5. Kinship Metaphors

6. Managing Affect

Conclusion: Imbricated Sovereignties

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520974395

0520974395

OCLC:

1226797772