Geopolitics of the PakistanAfghanistan Borderland
To understand the historical complexity of the PakistanAfghanistan borderland, this book brings together some of the foremost thinkers of this borderland and seeks to approach its various problematic dimensions.
This book presents an overview of the geopolitics of the PakistanAfghanistan borderland and approaches the topic from different methods and perspectives. It focuses on some of the least debated dimensions of this borderland, for instance, the status of women in the tribal-border culture, the legal status of aliens in the making of the border, material and immaterial manifestations of the border, political aesthetics of the border, and the identity crisis on the border. Given the fact that its authors come from diverse backgrounds, academic and geographic, they make an enriching contribution. Employing their expertise in different theories and methods, they focus on local memories, literature, and wisdom to understand the border. This book seeks to give voice to the plight of local tribal people, their culture, and land on an advanced academic level and makes it legible for the international audience.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Geopolitics.
Syed Sami Raza is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Peshawar, Pakistan. His research focuses on topics of geopolitics, critical IR, and critical legal theory. He is the author of The Security State in Pakistan: Legal Foundations (Routledge 2018).
Michael J. Shapiro is Professor of Political Science at the University of HawaiI at Manoa, Honolulu, USA. Among his recent publications are Punctuations: How the Arts Think the Political (Duke UP, 2019) and The Cinematic Political: Film Composition as Political Theory (Routledge, 2020).
Geopolitics of the Pakistan
Afghanistan Borderland
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Contents
Syed Sami Raza and Michael J. Shapiro
Rasul Bakhsh Rais
Jan-Peter Hartung
Syed Sami Raza
Maximilian Lohnert
Sanaa Alimia
Noreen Naseer
James Caron
Andrea Fleschenberg and Tariq Saeed Yousufzai
Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim
The following chapters were originally published in the Geopolitics, volume 24, issue 2 (April 2019). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
Geopolitics on the PakistanAfghanistan Borderland: An Overview of Different Historical Phases
Rasul Bakhsh Rais
Geopolitics, volume 24, issue 2 (April 2019) pp. 284307
Chapter 2
Of Pious Missions and Challenging the Elders: A Genealogy of Radical Egalitarianism in the Pashtun Borderscape
Jan-Peter Hartung
Geopolitics, volume 24, issue 2 (April 2019) pp. 308343
Chapter 3
Legal Sovereignty on the Border: Aliens, Identity and Violence on the Northwestern Frontier of Pakistan
Syed Sami Raza
Geopolitics, volume 24, issue 2 (April 2019) pp. 344365
Chapter 4
Security is a Mental Game: The Psychology of Bordering Checkposts in Pakistan
Maximilian Lohnert
Geopolitics, volume 24, issue 2 (April 2019) pp. 366390
Chapter 5
Performing the AfghanistanPakistan Border Through Refugee ID Cards
Sanaa Alimia
Geopolitics, volume 24, issue 2 (April 2019) pp. 391425
Chapter 6
Tribal Women, Property and Border: An Auto-Ethnographic Critique of the Riwaj (Tradition) on the PakistanAfghanistan Borderland
Noreen Naseer
Geopolitics, volume 24, issue 2 (April 2019) pp. 426443
Chapter 7
Pashto Border Literature as Geopolitical Knowledge
James Caron
Geopolitics, volume 24, issue 2 (April 2019) pp. 444461
Chapter 8
Writing Stars in the Sky or Decentring the Glocal Discourse of the War(S) on Terror through Narratives of Those Displaced
Andrea Fleschenberg and Tariq Saeed Yousufzai
Geopolitics, volume 24, issue 2 (April 2019) pp. 462486
Chapter 9
The Moving Border of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim
Geopolitics, volume 24, issue 2 (April 2019) pp. 487502
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Sanaa Alimia Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany.
James Caron South Asian Languages and Cultures, SOAS University of London, UK.
Andrea Fleschenberg Humboldt-Universitt zu Berlin, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Germany.
Jan-Peter Hartung Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Gettingen, Germany.
Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim Research Department, International Public Policy Pte. Ltd., Singapore.
Maximilian Lohnert School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Noreen Naseer Department of Political Science, University of Peshawar, Pakistan.
Rasul Bakhsh Rais Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan.
Syed Sami Raza Department of Political Science, University of Peshawar, Pakistan.
Michael J. Shapiro Political Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA.
Tariq Saeed Yousufzai MPhil Scholar, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Syed Sami Raza and Michael J. Shapiro
The set of articles in this collection return in different ways to the common theme of politics on border, which distils several ways that the PakistanAfghanistan border achieves legibility. The diverse interdisciplinary forays in the collection address a host of political concepts and predicatestribe and the state, security and ontology, identity and human rights, subjectivity and discourse, and religiosity and egalitarianism. As they engage those concepts and predicates, the various chapters comprise a wide variety of methods, drawn from a broad range of disciplinary fields. What they all share is critical rather than merely descriptive (or representational) approaches. They all seek to unsettle traditional understandings of border politics in the region.