Sovereign Attachments

Masculinity, Muslimness, and Affective Politics in Pakistan

AvShenila Khoja-Moolji

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

Sovereign Attachments rethinks sovereignty by moving it out of the exclusive domain of geopolitics and legality and into cultural, religious, and gender studies. Through a close reading of a stunning array of cultural texts produced by the Pakistani state and the Pakistan-based Taliban, Shenila Khoja-Moolji theorizes sovereignty as an ongoing attachment that is negotiated in public culture. Both the state and the Taliban recruit publics into relationships of trust, protection, and fraternity by summoning models of Islamic masculinity, mobilizing kinship metaphors, and marshalling affect. In particular, masculinity and Muslimness emerge as salient performances through which sovereign attachments are harnessed. The book shifts the discussion of sovereignty away from questions about absolute dominance to ones about shared repertoires, entanglements, and co-constitution.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-06-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520336803

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Asiens historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Shenila Khoja-Moolji is Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Bowdoin College. She is the author of the award-winning book Forging the Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia.

Recensioner i media

"Khoja-Moolji’s success lies in highlighting the imbrications of sovereignty with religion as well as gender. . . . Sovereign Attachments would be of interest to both undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of international relations, gender and sexuality studies, Islamic studies and Asian studies."

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Public Lives of Sovereignty Part One: Sovereign Islamo-Masculinities1 • Narrating the Sovereign2 • Identity, Alterity3 • Competing SovereignsPart Two: Stylizing Political Attachments4 • Subordinated Femininities5 • Kinship Metaphors 6 • Managing Affect Conclusion: Imbricated Sovereignties Notes BibliographyIndex