The unfinished project of decolonisation: a revisionist reading of Pakistan at 75

Q3 Social Sciences

Round Table Pub Date : 2022-11-02 DOI:10.1080/00358533.2022.2149007

A. Akhtar

引用次数: 1

Abstract

ABSTRACT For much of its history, Pakistan has been analysed through binaries that suggest an existential conflict between liberal democrats and illiberal theocrats. In fact, ideological polarisation has always existed within Pakistan’s militarised structure of power. This article proposes a revisionist reading of Pakistan’s history prefacing foundational logics of class, ethnic-national and state power. It is only by explicating such underlying structural logics that one can make sense of persistent palace intrigues as well as the dialectic of local political economies and regional/global geo-politics. Rehabilitating the normative horizon of decolonisation can animate a meaningful transformative politics in our time.

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未完成的非殖民化工程:对巴基斯坦75年历史的修正主义解读

在巴基斯坦的大部分历史中，人们一直通过二元分析来分析它，这种二元分析表明，自由民主派和不自由的神权政治之间存在着冲突。事实上，在巴基斯坦军事化的权力结构中，意识形态的两极分化一直存在。本文以阶级、民族、民族和国家权力的基本逻辑为前提，提出了对巴基斯坦历史的修正主义解读。只有通过解释这种潜在的结构逻辑，才能理解持久的宫廷阴谋，以及地方政治经济和区域/全球地缘政治的辩证法。恢复非殖民化的规范视野可以在我们这个时代激发一种有意义的变革政治。

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Round Table Social Sciences-Geography, Planning and Development

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