Delusional States - Feeling Rule and Development in Pakistan''s Northern Frontier

Offers a pioneering study of state-making, religion, and development in contemporary Pakistan and its northern frontier.

List of contents

List of maps and figures; Acknowledgements List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Representation and Repression: 1. Unimagined communities in the eco-body of the nation; 2. Loyalty, suspicion, sacrifice: feeling and force under militarism; Part II. Education and the Politics of Faith: 3. Challenging school textbooks: the sectarian making of national Islam; 4. Sectarian imaginaries and poetic publics; Part III. Saving Nature, Saving People: 5. The nature of development: neoliberal environments and pastoral visions; 6. Books vs. bombs? Humanitarian education, empire, and the narrative of terror; Conclusion: the great media game; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Nosheen Ali teaches at the Institute for Educational Development, Aga Khan University, Pakistan. She is the founder of Umang Poetry, a digital humanities archive for documenting contemporary poetic knowledge in South Asia, and Karti Dharti, an alternative learning space for ecological inquiry.

Product details

• Authors: Nosheen Ali
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781108497442
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49744-2
• No. of pages: 325
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state