Format:
1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9781350263222
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9781350261211
Series Statement:
Critical Perspectives in South Asian History
Content:
"After seventy-five years of independence, the history of Pakistan remains centred on the state, its ideology and the two-nation theory. This book seeks to shift that focus away from histories of an imagined nation to the history of its peoples. Based on the premise that the historiographical tradition in Pakistan has ignored the existence of people who actually make history, this book brings together historians, anthropologists, sociologists and political scientists to shed light on the diverse histories of the people themselves. Assembling histories of events and peoples missing from grand narratives of national history, the essays in this collection incorporate a diversity of ideas, images and genres of writing. Offering a close reading of alternative forms of representation such as art, film, poetry and fiction, this volume highlights and recuperates the entangled nature of history and memory within Pakistan's social and cultural life. By critically examining both leftist and nationalist thought, Towards People's Histories in Pakistan explores competing visions of what is meant by 'the people' and charts new ground in developing the promise of people's histories both within Pakistan and beyond."--
Note:
Introduction / Asad Ali & Kamran Asdar Ali (Independent Scholar and University of Texas, USA) -- Part I Ideologies and Imaginaries of the People. 1. The Left and its Legacies: The Long 1960s in Pakistan / Kamran Asdar Ali (University of Texas, USA) ; 2. Progressive Pakistan and the ?Woman Question? / Mahvish Ahmad (London School of Economics, UK) ; 3. Tulba / Mazdoor aur Kissan (Students, Labourers and Peasants): History Making from Below, Aasim Sajjad Akhtar (Quaid-e-Azam University, Pakistan) -- Part II Representations: Genre and History. 4. Fantastical Fictions: Desire and Domesticity in Women's Digests / Kiran Ahmed (Quaid-e-Azam University, Pakistan) ; 5. Their-stories in Queer Verse: Religious Song and Shia Sexuality in Sehvan Sharif / Omar Kasmani, (Freie Universitẗ Berlin, Germany) ; 6. Death in a Country of My Own: Formations of a People without Borders (Photo-Essay) / Vazira Zamindar (Brown University, USA) -- Part III Engaging Bureaucracy: Making Peoples and Histories. 7. Pani baich diya (They have sold the water): Water Policy in the Popular Imagination / Maira Hayat (Stanford University, USA) ; 8. Dislocated Futures, Living Pasts: Meos, Biharis and the Ambivilence of Arrival / Ilyas Chattha (Lahore University of Management Sciences, India) ; 9. The Promise of Citizenship, the Travails of Justice: Frontier 'tribals' on recognition and violence / Humeira Iqtidar (King's College London, UK) Part IV Precarious Lives ; 10. People Chasing Water: A History of Water and Work / Abdul Aijaz (Indiana University, USA) ; 11. The Langar: A People's History of Hunger / Noman Baig (Habib University, Pakistan) ; 12. Fragile Ecologies, Precarious life: Food, Work and Survival in Gilgit-Baltistan / Nosheen Ali (New York University-Gallatin School, USA) -- Part V: Politics and the People. 13. 'Democratization' and the Decline of Working-Class Politics in Pakistan / Anushay Malik & Hassan Javid (Lahore University of Management Sciences, India) ; 14. Stigma and Struggle: The Movement to Restore Democracy in Lyari / Nida Kirmani (Lahore University of Management Sciences, India) ; 15. 'Speaking' Through the Body: Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and the Common People / Asad Ali (Independent Scholar) -- Afterword.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350261228
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350261198
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781350261228
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781350263222
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