| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 186 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; In the Wake of Disaster; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures, Boxes and Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Setting the Scene; A Social Contract in Pakistan; The Political Construction of the Flooding Disaster; Countering the Dominant Narrative: The Argument in Brief; On Methods and Approach; Ethnographic research methods; Why Thatta, Badin and Tharparkar?; Why qualitative methods?; Overview of the Book; CHAPTER 1: A Social Contract: State-Citizen Relations and Unfolding Disasters; Citizenship, Client-ship or Both?; Rights, Entitlements and Famines |
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Disasters and the Social ContractEmpirical Research in Three Districts; Research design; CHAPTER 2: The State as a Complex Web of Social Relations; Locating Sindh in Southern Pakistan; Local Politics in Thatta, Badin and Tharparkar; The Sheerazis of Thatta and the 'shaadi-ghami' phenomena; The Mirzas of Badin and PPP politics; The Arbabs of Tharparkar and their changing constituency; CHAPTER 3: The Ethnographic Social Contract; The Everyday State: Sarkar, Hakumat, Riyasat or Gornment?; Gupta's local encounters; The larger entity, 'the state'; Demand-based expectations |
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Citizenship: 'What do you mean?'What Does This Mean for the Ethnographic Social Contract in Pakistan?; CHAPTER 4: Advancing 'Disaster Citizenship'; Understanding Disaster Citizenship; The Disaster and a Renegotiated Social Contract; Citizenship transformation: State-led initiatives; Citizenship transformation: More demands from citizens; Drivers of Change; Social transfers and the Citizen Damage Compensation Programme (CDCP); Social protection beyond Pakistan; The social space beyond social interventions; Strengthening the Social Contract through Rights-based Citizenship |
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CHAPTER 5: The Failing 'Islamist Takeover' in the Aftermath of the Indus FloodsThe Jamaat-ud-Dawa and the Indus Floods; The Jamaat-ud-Dawa and the State; The Jamaat-ud-Dawa Does Not Try to Be the Larger Entity, the Sarkar; The Jamaat-ud-Dawa's Limited Ability to 'Win Hearts and Minds'; Contextualising the Narrative on the Jamaat-ud-Dawa; Conclusion: Disasters and the State-Citizen Relationship; Empirical Findings; Theoretical Implications; Citizenship, client-ship or both?; Rights, entitlements and famines; Disasters and the social contract; Policy Implications; References; Index |
| Summary |
What is the state's responsibility to its people in the aftermath of a natural hazard based disaster? The book sets out to address this seemingly simple question, after large scale floods devastated Pakistan in 2010 and then again in 2011. Along the way it delves into rich detail about people's everday encounters with the state in Pakistan, uncovers postcolonial discourses on rights of citizenship and dispels mainstream understanding of Islamist groups as presenting an alternative development paradigm to the state. Based on detailed ethnographic fieldwork, In the Wake of the Disaster forces the reader to look beyond narratives of Pakistan as the perennial 'failing state' falling victim to an imminent 'Islamist takeover'. The book shifts the conversation from hysteria and sensationalism surrounding Pakistan to the everyday. In doing so it transforms our understanding of contemporary disasters |
| Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata |
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Floods -- Social aspects -- Pakistan
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Disaster relief -- Pakistan
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Disaster relief
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Floods -- Social aspects
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Politics and government
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Pakistan -- Politics and government -- 1988- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001403
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Pakistan
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108642712 |
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1108642713 |
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9781108597708 |
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110859770X |
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1108472923 |
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9781108472920 |
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