The Politics of Common Sense, State, Society and Culture in Pakistan (PDF)
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- Synopsis
- This book offers a refreshingly different perspective on Pakistan – it documents the evolution of the country’s structure of power over the past four decades, and in particular how the military dictatorship headed by General Zia ul Haq (1977–88) – whose rule has been almost exclusively associated with a narrow agenda of Islamisation – transformed the political field through a combination of coercion and consent-production. The Zia regime – and its successors – have inculcated within society at large a ‘common sense’ privileging the cultivation of patronage ties and the concurrent demeaning of counter-hegemonic political practices which had threatened the structure of power in the decade before the military coup in 1977. The book demonstrates how the politics of ‘common sense’ has been consolidated in the past three decades through the agency of emergent social forces such as traders and merchants, as well as the religio-political organisations that gained influence during the 1980s.
- Copyright:
- 2018
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- ISBN-13:
- 9781107155664
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 05/18/18
- Copyrighted By:
- Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Politics and Government
- Submitted By:
- Debbie Morton
- Proofread By:
- N/A
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.