In the Wake of Disaster
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In the Wake of Disaster
Islamists, the State and a Social Contract in Pakistan
Siddiqi, Ayesha (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Cambridge University Press
04/2019
210
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Inglês
9781108472920
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This book is an ethnographic exploration into the state's responsibility to its people in the aftermath of a natural hazard based disaster. It examines state-citizen interaction in Pakistan after large scale floods devastated the country in 2010 and then again in 2011, and transforms our understanding of contemporary disasters.
Acknowledgements; Introduction: settling the scene; 1. A social contract: state-citizen relations and unfolding disasters; 2. The state as a complex web of social relations; 3. The ethnographic social contract; 4. Advancing 'disaster citizenship'; 5. The failing 'Islamist takeover' in the aftermath of the Indus floods; 6. Conclusion: disaster and state-citizen relationship; References; Index.
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This book is an ethnographic exploration into the state's responsibility to its people in the aftermath of a natural hazard based disaster. It examines state-citizen interaction in Pakistan after large scale floods devastated the country in 2010 and then again in 2011, and transforms our understanding of contemporary disasters.
Acknowledgements; Introduction: settling the scene; 1. A social contract: state-citizen relations and unfolding disasters; 2. The state as a complex web of social relations; 3. The ethnographic social contract; 4. Advancing 'disaster citizenship'; 5. The failing 'Islamist takeover' in the aftermath of the Indus floods; 6. Conclusion: disaster and state-citizen relationship; References; Index.
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