Geopolitics of the Pakistan-Afghanistan Borderland

ISBN-13: 9780367647711 / Miękka / 2023 / 230 str.

Opis

To understand the historical complexity of the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderland, this book brings together some of the foremost thinkers of this borderland and seeks to approach its various problematic dimensions.

Spis treści

Introduction: Politics on Border – Critical Reflections on the Pakistan–Afghanistan Borderland

Syed Sami Raza and Michael J. Shapiro

1. Geopolitics on the Pakistan–Afghanistan Borderland: An Overview of Different Historical Phases

Rasul Bakhsh Rais

2. Of Pious Missions and Challenging the Elders: A Genealogy of Radical Egalitarianism in the Pashtun Borderscape

Jan-Peter Hartung

3. Legal Sovereignty on the Border: Aliens, Identity and Violence on the Northwestern Frontier of Pakistan

Syed Sami Raza

4. Security is a ‘Mental Game’: The Psychology of Bordering Checkposts in Pakistan

Maximilian Lohnert

5. Performing the Afghanistan–Pakistan Border Through Refugee ID Cards

Sanaa Alimia

6. Tribal Women, Property and Border: An Auto-Ethnographic Critique of the Riwaj (Tradition) on the Pakistan–Afghanistan Borderland

Noreen Naseer

7. Pashto Border Literature as Geopolitical Knowledge

James Caron

8. Writing Stars in the Sky or Decentring the Glocal Discourse of the ‘War(S) on Terror’ through Narratives of Those Displaced

Andrea Fleschenberg and Tariq Saeed Yousufzai

9. The Moving Border of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor

Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim

O autorze

Syed Sami Raza is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Peshawar, Pakistan. His research focuses on topics of geopolitics, critical IR, and critical legal theory. He is the author of The Security State in Pakistan: Legal Foundations (Routledge 2018).

Michael J. Shapiro is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai‘I at Manoa, Honolulu, USA. Among his recent publications are Punctuations: How the Arts Think the Political (Duke UP, 2019) and The Cinematic Political: Film Composition as Political Theory (Routledge, 2020).