This book provides a unique multilocal and multivocal analysis of the interlinkages between space, travel and history in the formation of the Pakistani nation-state. By focusing on the Karakoram Highway, which since opening in 1978 has had an extraordinary life channelling global, national, and local movements, the author critically analyses how the national imagination was remapped. Constructed by the Pakistani state constructed as a major development project that furthered the national interest and solidified state control over the remote and disputed region of northern Pakistan, mapped...
This book provides a unique multilocal and multivocal analysis of the interlinkages between space, travel and history in the formation of the Pakis...
How realistic is the prospect of peace in the Middle East? This question is the predominant focus for global analysis in the area, but its debate frequently ignores the cultural and social complexity of the Muslim world, reducing the region to a system of states and major figures. This book addresses such a failing by exploring how the everyday interactions of women, in accordance with Islamic personal ethics, can offer the world a new interpretation of peace. Drawing upon original research from different parts of the Middle East, North Africa and Asia, including Iran, Afghanistan, Egypt and...
How realistic is the prospect of peace in the Middle East? This question is the predominant focus for global analysis in the area, but its debate freq...