Matthew McCartney (University of Oxford), S. Akbar Zaidi (Columbia University, New York)
This volume makes a major intervention in the debates around the nature of the political economy of Pakistan, focusing on its contemporary social dynamics. This is the first comprehensive academic analysis of Pakistan's political economy after thirty-five years, and addresses issues of state, class and society, examining gender, the middle classes, the media, the bazaar economy, urban spaces and the new elite. The book goes beyond the contemporary obsession with terrorism and extremism, political Islam, and simple 'civilian–military relations', and looks at modern-day Pakistan through the...
This volume makes a major intervention in the debates around the nature of the political economy of Pakistan, focusing on its contemporary social dyna...
