South Asia from the Margins

Auteur

Asad ur Rehman is Assistant Professor in School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, at Habib University Karachi, Pakistan. He is the author of Politics and Spatio-Social Transformation in Pakistan (Routledge 2023).

Muhammad Shoaib Pervez is Associate Professor and former Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Management and Technology Lahore, Pakistan. He is the author of the award-winning book, Security Community in South-Asia (Routledge 2012) and editor of Radicalization in Pakistan (Routledge 2020).

Texte du rabat

This edited volume brings together a group of scholars examining the effects of social change on the politics in South Asia. It will be of interest to researchers studying Asian Politics, comparative politics, Area studies in particular South Asia and Pakistan, and International Relations.

Contenu

Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Deliberative Democracy at the local level in Nepal; Chapter 3. Politics around women's landed inheritance in South Asia: The case of Punjab, Pakistan; Chapter 4. A Critical Analysis of Christians & Scheduled Castes in Pakistan; Chapter 5. Populism and diaspora politics: Imran Khan and the Pakistani diaspora in the West; Chapter 6. Populism(s) in Pakistan: The Comparative Analysis of PTI and People's Rights Movement in AJK; Chapter 7. Challenging Decoloniality: Human Rights and Hindutva in contemporary India; Chapter 8. Bring decoloniality at home: a critical perspective on security discourse of Pakistan; Chapter 9. Overviewing the Regime of Practical Citizenship in Rural Pakistan; Chapter 10. Welfare Policy Initiatives and State-Society Relations: A case of Kerala's Tribal Assistance Model; Chapter 11. Bringing agency back in: Disentangling the complexities of Sri Lanka's default; Chapter 12. Ontological and epistemological considerations about the evolution of secularism in Bangladesh; Epilogue; Index