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To understand the historical complexity of the Pakistan-Afghanistan 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 Pakistan-Afghanistan 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.
Contents
Introduction: Politics on Border - Critical Reflections on the Pakistan-Afghanistan Borderland
Syed Sami Raza and Michael J. Shapiro
1. Geopolitics on the Pakistan-Afghanistan Borderland: An Overview of Different Historical Phases
Rasul Bakhsh Rais
2. Of Pious Missions and Challenging the Elders: A Genealogy of Radical Egalitarianism in the Pashtun Borderscape
Jan-Peter Hartung
3. Legal Sovereignty on the Border: Aliens, Identity and Violence on the Northwestern Frontier of Pakistan
Syed Sami Raza
4. Security is a 'Mental Game': The Psychology of Bordering Checkposts in Pakistan
Maximilian Lohnert
5. Performing the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border Through Refugee ID Cards
Sanaa Alimia
6. Tribal Women, Property and Border: An Auto-Ethnographic Critique of the Riwaj (Tradition) on the Pakistan-Afghanistan Borderland
Noreen Naseer
7. Pashto Border Literature as Geopolitical Knowledge
James Caron
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
9. The Moving Border of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim
