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New Perspectives on Pakistan's Political Economy: State, Class and Social Change (South Asia in the Social Sciences)
Matthew McCartney
(Illustrated by)
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S. Akbar Zaidi
(Illustrated by)
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Cambridge University Press
· Hardcover
New Perspectives on Pakistan's Political Economy: State, Class and Social Change (South Asia in the Social Sciences) - McCartney, Matthew ; Zaidi, S. Akbar
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Synopsis "New Perspectives on Pakistan's Political Economy: State, Class and Social Change (South Asia in the Social Sciences)"
This volume makes a major intervention in the debates around the nature of the political economy of Pakistan, focusing on its contemporary social dynamics. This is the first comprehensive academic analysis of Pakistan's political economy after thirty-five years, and addresses issues of state, class and society, examining gender, the middle classes, the media, the bazaar economy, urban spaces and the new elite. The book goes beyond the contemporary obsession with terrorism and extremism, political Islam, and simple 'civilian-military relations', and looks at modern-day Pakistan through the lens of varied academic disciplines. It not only brings together new work by some emerging scholars but also formulates a new political economy for the country, reflecting the contemporary reality and diversification in the social sciences in Pakistan. The chapters dynamically and dialectically capture emergent processes and trends in framing Pakistan's political economy and invite scholars to engage with and move beyond these concerns and issues.