Delusional States

By Nosheen Ali

Delusional States is the first in-depth study of state-making and social change in Gilgit-Baltistan, a Shia-majority region of Sunni-dominated Pakistan and a contested border area that forms part of disputed Kashmir. For over seven decades, the territorial conflict over Kashmir has locked India and Pakistan in brutal wars and hate-centred nationalisms. The book illuminates how within this story of hate lie other stories - of love and betrayal, loyalty and suspicion, beauty and terror - that help us grasp how the Kashmir conflict is affectively structured and experienced on the ground. Placing these emotions at the centre of its analysis, the book rethinks the state-citizen relation in deeply felt and intimate terms, offering a multi-layered ethnographic understanding of power and subjection in contemporary Pakistan.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108497446
• ISBN13: 9781108497442
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.4"