Beyond Crisis: Re-evaluating Pakistan

The essays in this volume complicate the sense of Pakistan as prone to failure. It is recast as a prolonged meditation on the artificiality of the state form, the difficulty of committing to a single nationalist vision, the foreignness that resides within, etc.

Author: Naveeda Khan
Publisher: Routledge India
Published: 06/14/2019
Pages: 604
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780367176549

About the Author

Naveeda Khan is assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She received her masters in anthropology from the New School for Social Research in 1995. She completed her Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University in 2003, writing her doctoral dissertation on how sectarian violence is folded into everyday life through processes of mosque construction and violent seizures in Lahore, Pakistan. She is currently completing a book manuscript titled 'Muslim Perfectionism: Sectarianism and The Passage of a Promise in Pakistan'.