In the Wake of Disaster: Islamists, the State and a Social Contract in Pakistan

ISBN-13: 9781108472920 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 196 str.

Ayesha Siddiqi

Opis

Addresses the state-citizen relationship in Pakistan in the wake of the natural calamities in 2010 and 2011.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction: settling the scene; 1. A social contract: state-citizen relations and unfolding disasters; 2. The state as a complex web of social relations; 3. The ethnographic social contract; 4. Advancing 'disaster citizenship'; 5. The failing 'Islamist takeover' in the aftermath of the Indus floods; 6. Conclusion: disaster and state-citizen relationship; References; Index.