Pakistan's nuclear exclusion: living with Orientalism

Developed over six chapters, Pakistan's Nuclear Exclusion offers an account of how Orientalism is a lived experience of post-colonial racism, injustice, and inequality amongst members of the nuclear community in Pakistan. The account is produced through interviews with members of the community...

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1. Verfasser: Rahim, Sana (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford ; New York, NY Oxford University Press [2024]
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Zusammenfassung:Developed over six chapters, Pakistan's Nuclear Exclusion offers an account of how Orientalism is a lived experience of post-colonial racism, injustice, and inequality amongst members of the nuclear community in Pakistan. The account is produced through interviews with members of the community consisting of students, academics, and physicists in Pakistan. The book offers unique insights into how Pakistan's nuclear community is not only perceived/represented but also, therewith, how it seeks to operate in a wider nuclear community dominated by Western nuclear powers. The provision of such highly contextualized insights is enabled by the book setting out to both (a) provide analytical space for and (b) 'give voice' to how Orientalism and othering is experienced in their everyday lives. Consequently, the book provides (1) an analysis of how 'dominant discourses' of nuclear management and their 'pictures of reason' are exclusionary, (2) an analysis of the core features of Orientalism as they pertain to Pakistan's nuclear weapons and nuclear community, and (3) empirical findings which produce categories of the experience of Orientalism into areas of the everyday - exclusion, making a career, Islamophobia, technology denial, self-reliance, and identity. The book is enormously valuable to the research community as well as extremely well conceived and researched. In addition, much of the methodology chapter offers a level of sophistication and self-reflection that translates well in the interview material and its subsequent analysis
Beschreibung:viii, 199 Seiten 24 cm
ISBN:9780198902157

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