Access to Power: Electricity and the Infrastructural State in Pakistan

ISBN-13: 9780197540954 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 192 str.

Associate Professor Ijlal (Associate Professor of Sociology

Recenzje

Access to Power unpacks the riddle of why so many efforts to reform the electricity sector in Pakistan have failed and why electricity remains such an unequally distributed service. Moving beyond the good governance literature, Naqvi locates power and politics at the center of his inquiry and through a nested analysis that moves from the national to the local methodically exposes the distributional conflicts and strategic actions that shape uneven state capacity. If many have called for disaggregating the state, Naqvi actually delivers. This is sociology at its best and a must read for anyone interested in understanding development as a contested process." -Patrick Heller, Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, Brown University

O autorze

Ijlal Naqvi is Associate Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean for Curriculum and Teaching at the School of Social Sciences of Singapore Management University. He is interested in how states work on an everyday basis and draws on the fields of development sociology and urban studies in his research. Before becoming an academic Ijlal worked as a business consultant in the US and for the Pakistani government. Ijlal earned his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has a MA in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, and a BA from Middlebury College.