South Asian Cultures of the Bomb - Atomic Publics and the State in India and Pakistan

Informationen zum Autor edited by Itty Abraham Klappentext Equal coverage for comparable issues in each country frames the volume as a genuine dialogue across this contested boundary. Zusammenfassung A collection of essays that examines the political and ideological components of national drives to possess and test nuclear weapons. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Nuclear Power and Atomic Publics / Itty Abraham 2. Fevered with Dreams of the Future: The Coming of the Atomic Age to Pakistan / Zia Mian 3. India's Nuclear Enclave and the Practice of Secrecy / M. V. Ramana 4. The Social Life of a Bomb: India and the Ontology of an "Overpopulated" Society / Sankaran Krishna 5. Pride and Proliferation: Pakistan's Nuclear Psyche after A. Q. Khan / Ammara Durrani 6. The Politics of Death: The Antinuclear Imaginary in India / Srirupa Roy 7. Pakistan's Atomic Publics: Survey Results / Haider Nizamani 8. Gods, Bombs, and the Social Imaginary / Raminder Kaur 9. Nuclearization and Pakistani Popular Culture since 1998 / Iftikhar Dadi 10. Guardians of the Nuclear Myth: Politics, Ideology, and India's Strategic Community / Karsten Frey List of Contributors Index

Product details

• Authors: Itty Abraham
• Assisted by: Itty Abraham (Editor)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.03.2009
• EAN: 9780253220325
• ISBN: 978-0-253-22032-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Indiana University Press
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education