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New Perspectives On Pakistan's Political Economy: State, Class And Social Change, Matthew Mccartney, S. Akbar Zaidi
New Perspectives On Pakistan's Political Economy: State, Class And Social Change, Matthew Mccartney, S. Akbar Zaidi
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This volume makes a major intervention in the debates around the nature of the political economy of Pakistan, focusing on its contemporary social dynamics. This is the first comprehensive academic analysis of Pakistan's political economy after thirty-five years, and addresses issues of state, class and society, examining gender, the middle classes, the media, the bazaar economy, urban spaces and the new elite. The book goes beyond the contemporary obsession with terrorism and extremism, political Islam, and simple 'civilian-military relations', and looks at modern-day Pakistan through the lens of varied academic disciplines. It not only brings together new work by some …