Unity in diversity: constituting and constructing Pakistan’s national identity

Q3 Social Sciences
F. Siddiqi
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ABSTRACT This article critically explores the evolution and expression of a Pakistani national identity as a project of assertion in the post-colonial period. While the initial years of Pakistan’s independence were marked by ambiguity over the religious versus secular direction of the Pakistani identity, there was no dithering over an absolutist national identity (Pakistani) that was to be strictly followed and ordained in contrast to sub-national, ethnic identities. The article presents three elemental positions of Pakistan’s national identity discourse: the nationalist/primordialist, the perennialist and the social constructivist. Rooting its argument in the social constructivist episteme but also moving beyond it by indulging in a normative approach, the article argues in favour of a humanist-centred interpretation that eschews differentiation and normalises an inclusive, tolerant and diversity-acceptant definition of Pakistani identity.
多样性中的统一:构成和构建巴基斯坦的民族认同
摘要本文批判性地探讨了巴基斯坦民族身份的演变和表达,作为后殖民时期的一个主张项目。虽然巴基斯坦独立的最初几年在巴基斯坦身份的宗教与世俗方向上存在模糊性,但在绝对主义的国家身份(巴基斯坦)问题上没有犹豫,与次民族、种族身份形成鲜明对比的是,绝对主义的国家身份(巴基斯坦人)必须严格遵守和规定。本文提出了巴基斯坦民族认同话语的三个基本立场:民族主义者/原始主义者、长期主义者和社会建构主义者。这篇文章的论点植根于社会建构主义的认识论,但也通过沉迷于规范的方法超越了它,主张以人道主义为中心的解释,避免差异化,并使包容、宽容和可接受多样性的巴基斯坦身份定义正常化。
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Round Table
Round Table Social Sciences-Geography, Planning and Development
CiteScore
1.70
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77
期刊介绍: Founded in 1910, The Round Table, Britain"s oldest international affairs journal, provides analysis and commentary on all aspects of international affairs. The journal is the major source for coverage of policy issues concerning the contemporary Commonwealth and its role in international affairs, with occasional articles on themes of historical interest. The Round Table has for many years been a repository of informed scholarship, opinion, and judgement regarding both international relations in general, and the Commonwealth in particular, with authorship and readership drawn from the worlds of government, business, finance and academe.
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