Towards people's histories in Pakistan : in(audible) voices, forgotten pasts /: in(audible) voices, forgotten pasts. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: [edited by] Kamran Asdar Ali and Asad Ali.
• Editors: Ali, Asad; Ali, Kamran Asdar
• Contents: Introduction / Asad Ali & Kamran Asdar Ali (Independent Scholar and University of Texas, USA) -- Part I Ideologies and Imaginaries of the People. 1. The Left and its Legacies: The Long 1960s in Pakistan / Kamran Asdar Ali (University of Texas, USA) ; 2. Progressive Pakistan and the ?Woman Question? / Mahvish Ahmad (London School of Economics, UK) ; 3. Tulba / Mazdoor aur Kissan (Students, Labourers and Peasants): History Making from Below, Aasim Sajjad Akhtar (Quaid-e-Azam University, Pakistan) -- Part II Representations: Genre and History. 4. Fantastical Fictions: Desire and Domesticity in Women's Digests / Kiran Ahmed (Quaid-e-Azam University, Pakistan) ; 5. Their-stories in Queer Verse: Religious Song and Shia Sexuality in Sehvan Sharif / Omar Kasmani, (Freie Universitẗ Berlin, Germany) ; 6. Death in a Country of My Own: Formations of a People without Borders (Photo-Essay) / Vazira Zamindar (Brown University, USA) -- Part III Engaging Bureaucracy: Making Peoples and Histories. 7. Pani baich diya (They have sold the water): Water Policy in the Popular Imagination / Maira Hayat (Stanford University, USA) ; 8. Dislocated Futures, Living Pasts: Meos, Biharis and the Ambivilence of Arrival / Ilyas Chattha (Lahore University of Management Sciences, India) ; 9. The Promise of Citizenship, the Travails of Justice: Frontier 'tribals' on recognition and violence / Humeira Iqtidar (King's College London, UK) Part IV Precarious Lives ; 10. People Chasing Water: A History of Water and Work / Abdul Aijaz (Indiana University, USA) ; 11. The Langar: A People's History of Hunger / Noman Baig (Habib University, Pakistan) ; 12. Fragile Ecologies, Precarious life: Food, Work and Survival in Gilgit-Baltistan / Nosheen Ali (New York University-Gallatin School, USA) -- Part V: Politics and the People. 13. 'Democratization' and the Decline of Working-Class Politics in Pakistan / Anushay Malik & Hassan Javid (Lahore University of Management Sciences, India) ; 14. Stigma and Struggle: The Movement to Restore Democracy in Lyari / Nida Kirmani (Lahore University of Management Sciences, India) ; 15. 'Speaking' Through the Body: Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and the Common People / Asad Ali (Independent Scholar) -- Afterword.
• Publisher Details: London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource (256 pages)
• Subjects: 954.91; Manners and customs; Pakistan -- History; Pakistan -- Social life and customs; Pākistān -- Histoire; Pakistan; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350263222; 1350263222; 9781350261211; 1350261211
• Related ISBNs: 9781350261228; 9781350261198
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