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Nation, Territory, and Globalization in Pakistan: Traversing the Margins (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series) by Chad Haines is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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This book provides a unique multilocal and multivocal analysis of the interlinkages between space, travel and history in the formation of the Pakistani nation-state. By focusing on the Karakoram Highway, which since opening in 1978 has had an extraordinary life channelling global, national, and local movements, the author critically analyses how the national imagination was remapped. Constructed by the Pakistani state constructed as a major development project that furthered the national interest and solidified state control over the remote and disputed region of northern Pakistan, mapped as part of greater Kashmir, the highway acted as a symbol for an imagined national identity. The author shows how the highway offered Pakistan a pre-Partition history and a fixed territory, by providing a historical link to the Silk Route and a contemporary geographical linkage to Central Asia. Examining how the diverse travelers along the Karakoram Highway landscape the nation-state in particular locales, he shows that global flows of development, trade, labour, and tourism have remapped the Pakistani nation-state and reshaping the local. This book provides a fresh perspective on the troubled nat
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- Author
- Chad Haines
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781138227026
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Science, Travel
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