THE CAPTIVE STATE: Corruption, Intelligence Agencies, and Ethnicity in Pakistan.

Authors :: Verkaaik, Oskar
Source :: States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State; 2001, p345-364, 20p
Publication Year :: 2001
Abstract: The article presents an essay which integrates approach of studying present-day relations between state and society in Pakistan. The author examines the popular perceptions of the state within an ethnic group that were at the heart of social transitions and political unrest in Sindh since the mid-1980s. It is argued that the popular imagination of the state is linked to a modernist concept of Islamic nationalism.

Subjects :: POLITICAL participation
ETHNIC groups
ETHNICITY
CORRUPTION
ISLAM & state

Language :: English
ISBNs :: 9780822327981
Database :: Complementary Index
Journal :: States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State
Publication Type :: Book
Accession number :: 25089767

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