States of struggle: politics, religion, and ecology in the making of the Northern Areas, Pakistan

My dissertation investigates the nature of state power and social struggle in the disputed border territory of the Northern Areas (Gilgit-Baltistan), Pakistan. This strategic region comprises 86% of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, is the only Shiadominated political unit in Sunni-dominated Pakistan,...

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1. Verfasser: Ali, Nosheen Kassam (VerfasserIn)
Format: Abschlussarbeit Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cornell University 2009
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Zusammenfassung:My dissertation investigates the nature of state power and social struggle in the disputed border territory of the Northern Areas (Gilgit-Baltistan), Pakistan. This strategic region comprises 86% of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, is the only Shiadominated political unit in Sunni-dominated Pakistan, and is valued nationally and globally as a rare biodiversity hotspot. How is rule accomplished and negotiated in such an extraordinary space, where people are simultaneously border, religious, and environmental subjects? I address this question using ethnographic and textual analysis, examining first the state practices of political, religious, and environmental regulation through which the Northern Areas is constructed and contained. These practices include the denial of basic constitutional rights such as voting, the silencing of Shia religious identity in school textbooks, and the appropriation of pastoral land for national parks.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
Beschreibung:VIII, 252 Bl. Ill., Kt. 29 cm

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