In the Wake of Disaster
Islamists, the State and a Social Contract in Pakistan
Published on 8. May 2019
202 pages
978-1-108-59770-8 (ISBN)
Description
What is the state's responsibility to its people in the aftermath of a natural hazard based disaster? The book sets out to address this seemingly simple question, after large scale floods devastated Pakistan in 2010 and then again in 2011. Along the way it delves into rich detail about people's everday encounters with the state in Pakistan, uncovers postcolonial discourses on rights of citizenship and dispels mainstream understanding of Islamist groups as presenting an alternative development paradigm to the state. Based on detailed ethnographic fieldwork, In the Wake of the Disaster forces the reader to look beyond narratives of Pakistan as the perennial 'failing state' falling victim to an imminent 'Islamist takeover'. The book shifts the conversation from hysteria and sensationalism surrounding Pakistan to the everyday. In doing so it transforms our understanding of contemporary disasters.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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File size
3,52 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-108-59770-8 (9781108597708)
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05/2019
Cambridge University Press
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Content
Acknowledgements; Introduction: settling the scene; 1. A social contract: state-citizen relations and unfolding disasters; 2. The state as a complex web of social relations; 3. The ethnographic social contract; 4. Advancing 'disaster citizenship'; 5. The failing 'Islamist takeover' in the aftermath of the Indus floods; 6. Conclusion: disaster and state-citizen relationship; References; Index.
