Beyond Crisis

Name: Beyond Crisis
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

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. > Through the essays in this volume, we see how the failure of the state becomes a moment to ruminate on the artificiality of this most modern construct, the failure of nationalism, an opportunity to dream of alternative modes of association, and the failure of sovereignty to consider the threats and possibilities of the realm of foreignness within t > Acknowledgements 1. Foreword by Veena Das 2. Introduction by Naveeda Khan Part I: Artificiality of the State 3. Towards a Lyric History of India by Aamir Mufti 4.The Politics of Commensuration: The Violence of Partition and the Making of the Pakistani State by Tahir Hasnain Naqvi 5. A Real Terrorist, An Excerpt from Sayyid Pakistani and the Weddinp