104 research outputs found
State, society and power towards a new political economy of Pakistan
No full textFive sc holars engage with S Akbar Zaidi's proposed agenda for research in the political economy of Pakistan, "Rethinking Pakistan's Political Economy" (1 Febr uar y 2014). Majed A k hter introduces the discussion, Aasim Sajjad Akhtar discusses the hegemonic "politics of common sense", Fahd Ali draws on postcolon ia l theor y to engage Zaidi's use of "political settlements", Umair Javed focuses on associational politics in Punjab and Adeem Suhail theorises "the negotiated state" based on his fieldwork in Karachi. Zaidi responds to the critiques by suggest i ng they are not ruthless enough
Imran Khan: a bibliography
No full textAhemd, Saifuddin and Marko Skoric. 2014. “My Name is Khan: The Use of Twitter in the 2013 Pakistan General Election Campaign, 47 th Hawaii International Conference on System Information, available at https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6758880 accessed on 16 January 2019 AKHTER, MAJED. “The Politics of Sovereignty in Pakistan.” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 47, no. 2, 2012, pp. 17–19. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23065599. Bredi, Daniela. « L'éveil de la s..
Analisis Makna dan Jenis Makna dalam Cerita Pendek “الصندوق” Karya Majed Sulaiman
Get PDFThis study analyzes the meanings in the short story “الصندوق” (The Box) by Majed Sulaiman using a semantic approach. The research applies a descriptive qualitative method based on the theories of Leech, Palmer, and Chaer, focusing on lexical, denotative, connotative, and contextual meanings. The results show that each word in the story carries deep meaning. The word “صندوق” (box), for example, literally means a container but symbolically represents love, memory, and family bonds. The author delivers moral values through simple yet meaningful language. This study concludes that semantic analysis helps reveal the moral and emotional messages in Arabic literary works, especially in children’s stories
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Crisis, New Imperialisms, and Accumulation by Dispossession: The Case of the Pakistan Railways
No full textMy research examines the three interrelated concepts of crisis; new imperialisms, spatial-temporal fix and accumulation by dispossession (ABD) stemming from the work of David Harvey as a way to understand the contested history of the Pakistan Railways. For the first thirty odd years after Pakistan's inception in 1947, the railways, a state-owned institution, was the primary mode of transport for the public, cargo, and workers. Alongside basic infrastructure, the railways had a vast network of hospitals, schools, workers' colonies and an array of physical infrastructure connected to production, operations and other aspects of the economy. The systematic ransack and decline of the Pakistan Railways reached its peak in 2010. Despite several attempts throughout the 1990s by successive democratic and military-led governments backed by the IMF/World Bank in 2015, it was announced that Pakistan railways would be revived under the banner of the 46 billion dollar China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as part of the changing geopolitical context of growing regional connectivity and new Chinese imperialism. By examining the processes that underlie ABD, such as spatial-temporal fix, the following research shows that these processes not only reflect a shift of resources away from the public domain, but in Pakistan also entailed the transformation of the railways from a utilitarian welfare organization to an entity that facilitates looting, unbundling, and dispossession of shared resources and infrastructure
Dams as a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy:Geopolitical Implications for Pakistan
No full textPakistani planners are increasingly prone to recognize the many links between water, food, and energy security. The construction of new large dams is seen by many as a concrete measure to achieve resource security for Pakistani for a future marked by climactic variability and unpredictability. This article explores the geopolitical and political geographic implications of Pakistan’s strategic vision of building dams as a way to prepare for climate change. The author argues that far from being politically neutral tools for development with predictable effects, large dams create new political and spatial arenas of conflict and contradiction at the international, regional, and local scales. © 2015 Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
The proliferation of peripheries:Militarized drones and the reconfiguration of global space
Get PDFBy situating drones in a lineage of colonial technologies of pacification, the critical literature on militarized drones suggests a revised concept of peripheries and global space. This paper engages this literature to argue for a conception of peripheries as spaces of colonial state power at multiple scales. It does so by arguing for a distinction between proliferation to the global periphery and the proliferation of peripheries at multiple scales and across scattered sites. The paper also draws on Gramsci and Fanon to elaborate an internationalist anticolonial position on the defense of territorial sovereignty of states in the global periphery. © 2017, The Author(s) 2017
Dams, Development, and Racialised Internal Peripheries: Hydraulic Imaginaries as Hegemonic Strategy in Pakistan
No full textDams and other large water infrastructures are more than mere technical projects in Pakistan. They carry a special symbolic burden and are understood by the state as vectors of modernisation. This paper interrogates the making of a statist hydraulic imaginary in Pakistan in the 1960s and its continued relevance today. This imaginary posits a technocratic state as the protagonist in a national narrative of hydro-modernisation. I argue that the production and dissemination of an imaginary of racialised internal peripheries as places of developmental backwardness is central to the Pakistani state’s infrastructural interventions. I analyse images and narratives from state produced magazines and videos by contextualising them with respect to the cultural politics of hegemony. The paper advances debates in critical infrastructure studies via a critical reading of Antonio Gramsci’s incomplete essay on the “Southern Question”. It develops a tradition of cultural historical materialism—largely neglected by critical water geographers—attuned to the articulation of geographic unevenness, hegemony, and racial difference.</p
Desiring the data state in the Indus Basin
Get PDFThe distribution of water between co-riparian regions in the Indus Basin has been an extremely contentious issue since at least the early 20th century. The reliability of water measurements, in particular, has caused much controversy at multiple scales. This hydropolitical tension has catalysed a key social group – the hydraulic bureaucracy or ‘hydrocracy’ – to enact strategies of depoliticisation. These strategies aim to suppress political contest by calling on external expertise and/or technology to assure the objectivity of water measurement data. This paper draws on archival data and interviews with water engineers to argue that technocratic depoliticisation operates in distinct but related ways at different scales. Further, I argue that to analyse the technocratic desire for a data state – a state that governs primarily or exclusively by number and calculation – a multi-scalar theoretical framework that connects the politics of technocracy, territory and nationalism is needed. The paper develops such a framework by situating hydrocrats and their strategies in the broader context of state formation. This framework is offered as a way for critical scholars of resources, development and expertise to engage with depoliticisation and repoliticisation of resource governance as complex geographic processes. The information, practices and views in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). © 2016 Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers
The dronification of state violence
No full textThis article explores the shifting methods of U.S. state violence. Building on their earlier work, the authors focus on the use of drones for targeted killings in Pakistan, but here they tease out the wider implications for the future of “warfare”—particularly the meaning and extent of sovereignty and territory. The authors argue that drone strikes both emerge from and feed back into a series of evolutions in the nature of state violence centered on the intensely bureaucratic and automated delivery of death. This technopolitical transformation, they contend, is underwritten by the abandonment of “thought” and the ascendance of what Hannah Arendt calls an unaccountable “rule by nobody.” To build this argument, the authors investigate the institutional conditions of modern-day drone strikes, moving historically and geographically to the birth of the Predator drone and the rise of the CIA in 1980s Afghanistan. By studying nonhuman sources of power, the authors argue that today’s planetary manhunt exceeds any direct human control. They conclude by exploring the “individualization” of targeting and its likely consequences for war and law enforcement
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