Challenge, Continuity, and Change in Pakistan

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-99364-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

This book brings a multi-disciplinary approach to studying Pakistan’s contemporary political, social and environmental challenges. It offers insights from various disciplines to show the interconnectedness of many of Pakistan’s problems and their historical roots.

The analysis includes issues of political alienation and exclusion, vulnerability to climate change-induced disasters and how such challenges might be mitigated. The case studies in the book reveal that reality is complex and that demographic, social, and technological change is moving apace in Pakistan. This dynamism points to another aspect of Pakistan and its resilience in the face of manmade and natural disasters. An increasingly youthful and urbanised population is challenging social inequalities and power structures whilst the state attempts to respond in old ways to maintain order and stability. The emergence of overseas Pakistani communities and their connectedness with the homeland is another growing development with ramifications for politics and society.

A significant contribution on critical affairs in Pakistan, this book investigates if the country is moving towards a critical crossroads in its development. It will be of interest to historians and political scientists of Modern South Asia, as well as geographers interested in examining impact of climate change.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ranjan, Amit

Talbot, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part One: The Political Landscape: Continuity and Change

Chapter 1 The Military at a Political Crossroad? Pakistan 2018-present

Chapter 2 Hybrid Regime Management in Pakistan 1947–2022

Chapter 3 Mapping Federalism in Pakistan

Chapter 4 Governance and Resistance in Pakistan’s Peripheries: The Cases of Pakistan-Administered Kashmir, Balochistan, and Gilgit-Baltistan

Chapter 5 Politics of Extremism and the Emergence of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan

Chapter 6 Geopolitics, Security, and Imbalance in Pakistan’s Foreign Policy: A historical perspective

Chapter 7 Political Economy of Crisis

Part Two: The Changing Social Landscape

Chapter 8 Navigating through the Black Hole of Crises in the post-truth Era: A Curious Case of Pakistan's middle-class Youth

Chapter 9 Media and Election in Pakistan

Chapter 10 New Social Movements in Pakistan: Dynamics and Politics of Aurat March

Chapter 11 Homo-Islamicus: piety, populism, and post-feminism in Pakistan

Chapter12 Pakistan and its diaspora(s): An exploration of Economic and Political Mobilization for the homeland

Chapter 13 Finding Contemporary Pakistan on Screen: The Case of The Legend of Maula Jatt and Joyland

Chapter 14 Sport in Pakistan: Highs and Lows Amidst Structural Decline

Part Three: Environmental Challenges and Responses

Chapter 15 Pakistan's Water Resources:  Availability Concerns, Disputes and Sub-Nationalism

Chapter 16 Forests, Climate Change and Politics in Pakistan: The PTI Tree Tsunami in North-West Pakistan

Chapter 17 Pakistan in the face of Climate Change: Current state of Risks, Resilience and Sustainability

Über Autor(innen)

Amit Ranjan is a Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. His latest book is The Aftermath of the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971: Enduring Impacts (edited with Taj Hashmi and Mazhar Abbas, Routledge, 2025). He has also edited Migration, Memories and “Unfinished” Partition (TISS-Routledge series on Migration Studies, 2024) and is the author of Federalism and Inter-State River Water Disputes in India (Routledge, London and New Delhi, 2023), and Contested Waters: India’s Transboundary River Water Disputes in South Asia (Routledge, Oxon and New Delhi, 2021).  Ian Talbot is Professor Emeritus in the History of Modern South Asia at the University of Southampton. He holds a BA at Royal Holloway College, an MA from Oxford University and a PhD at Royal Holloway College. He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and was formerly Head of History at the University of Southampton.