| | | Document Type | : | Latin Dissertation | | Language of Document | : | English | | Record Number | : | 53294 | | Doc. No | : | TL23248 | | Call number | : | 3254000 | | Main Entry | : | Tahir Hasnain Naqvi | | Title & Author | : | Interregnal politics: Autocracy and counternationalism in urban PakistanTahir Hasnain Naqvi | | College | : | University of California, Berkeley | | Date | : | 2006 | | Degree | : | Ph.D. | | student score | : | 2006 | | Page No | : | 214 | | Abstract | : | This dissertation draws on twelve months of fieldwork (2001-2003) in Karachi with citizens, neighborhood intermediaries, and activists of the Muhajir Nationalist Movement (MQM). It examines forms of government and popular political action that emerge in response to the martial state of emergency and its suspension of urban mass-politics. As I use it, counter-nationalism describes Pakistan's postcolonial present as it is embodied within specific conjunctures of government, imagination, and space that question the democratic boundaries of the nation-state. In 1985, the MQM galvanized Indian immigrants (Muhajirs), who had been living in the urban areas of the province Sindh since Partition, into an unlikely "migrant-nation" within Sindh. Led by university educated Muhajirs from the second generation who had grown disaffected with Islamist politics, the MQM launched a militant provincial nationalist campaign that achieved political control of Karachi through the martial state's unitary arena of "non-party" local government. Through printed sources and neighborhood and activist histories, I analyze the MQM's attempt to modulate subalternity into hegemony as a process that capitalized on, rather than resisted, the martial state's attempt to fragment Karachi's mass-political stage. The movement's deferral of Muhajir nationality as a 'beginning' after Pakistan returned to wider spatial scales of democratic participation in 1989 invites theoretical reflection on the specific dynamics (authoritarian, transitional, militant, nationalist) of performative political identities in the postcolonial and Muslim world. | | Subject | : | Social sciences; Autocracy; Counternationalism; Interregnal politics; Pakistan; Urban space; Cultural anthropology; Political science; 0326:Cultural anthropology; 0615:Political science | | Added Entry | : | S. Pandolfo | | Added Entry | : | University of California, Berkeley |
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