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NORTHERN PAKISTAN (3) answer(s).
 
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Books vs bombs: humanitarian development and the narrative of terror in Northern Pakistan / Ali, Nosheen   Journal Article
Ali, Nosheen Journal Article
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Publication 2010.
Summary/Abstract Through the lens of the new institutional economics development is represented as a process of cultural and institutional transformation in which informal social institutions that hinder the operation of market forces are dismantled and replaced with formalised, liberal institutional frameworks to facilitate rational economic activity. The World Bank has deployed these arguments to legitimise reforms aimed at reshaping the values and conduct of postcolonial citizenries to facilitate entrepreneurship and competitiveness. To deconstruct this discourse, the article points to its underlying contradictions; specifically, to the way that the idealised formal rationality of impersonal markets is necessarily subsumed in practice within the substantive irrationalities of capitalist development. Consequently the informal social relations that the Bank deems instances of cultural atavism and a barrier to competitiveness arise as intrinsic features of global capitalism. Seemingly impervious to reform, informalised populations appear as objects to be restrained or removed by the state. Coercion, I argue, emerges as the inevitable concomitant of competitiveness.
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ID:   076319


Divine Madness and Cultural Otherness: Diwans and faqirs in Northern Pakistan / Frembgen, Jürgen Wasim   Journal Article
Frembgen, Jürgen Wasim Journal Article
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Publication 2006.
Summary/Abstract This article portrays several little-known examples of unusual and eccentric individuals embodying different forms of divine 'madness' and representing cultural otherness among local people in the high mountain areas of Northern Pakistan. The precise position of these men as more or less 'holy' (diw na and faq r) or simply 'crazy' (p gal) remains evidently contested. The article argues that ultimately, through their marginal state, the various forms of divine madmen can be seen to embody the potency of disorder in a local Islamic environment as a necessary element and completion of an all-encompassing divine order
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Like an act of god: land, water and social power in Northern Pakistan / Akram-Lodhi A Haroon Nov 2001  Article
Akram-Lodhi A Haroon Article
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Publication Nov 2001.
Description 319-342
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