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Author:   Syed Sami Raza ,  Michael J. Shapiro
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367647698

ISBN 10:   0367647699
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   31 December 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction: Politics on Border – Critical Reflections on the Pakistan–Afghanistan Borderland Syed Sami Raza and Michael J. Shapiro 1. Geopolitics on the Pakistan–Afghanistan Borderland: An Overview of Different Historical Phases Rasul Bakhsh Rais 2. Of Pious Missions and Challenging the Elders: A Genealogy of Radical Egalitarianism in the Pashtun Borderscape Jan-Peter Hartung 3. Legal Sovereignty on the Border: Aliens, Identity and Violence on the Northwestern Frontier of Pakistan Syed Sami Raza 4. Security is a ‘Mental Game’: The Psychology of Bordering Checkposts in Pakistan Maximilian Lohnert 5. Performing the Afghanistan–Pakistan Border Through Refugee ID Cards Sanaa Alimia 6. Tribal Women, Property and Border: An Auto-Ethnographic Critique of the Riwaj (Tradition) on the Pakistan–Afghanistan Borderland Noreen Naseer 7. Pashto Border Literature as Geopolitical Knowledge James Caron 8. Writing Stars in the Sky or Decentring the Glocal Discourse of the ‘War(S) on Terror’ through Narratives of Those Displaced Andrea Fleschenberg and Tariq Saeed Yousufzai 9. The Moving Border of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim

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Syed Sami Raza is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Peshawar, Pakistan. His research focuses on topics of geopolitics, critical IR, and critical legal theory. He is the author of The Security State in Pakistan: Legal Foundations (Routledge 2018). Michael J. Shapiro is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai‘I at Manoa, Honolulu, USA. Among his recent publications are Punctuations: How the Arts Think the Political (Duke UP, 2019) and The Cinematic Political: Film Composition as Political Theory (Routledge, 2020).

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