1st Edition
Geopolitics of the Pakistan–Afghanistan Borderland
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
Biography
Syed Sami Raza is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Peshawar, Pakistan. His research focuses on topics of geopolitics, critical IR, and critical legal theory. He is the author of The Security State in Pakistan: Legal Foundations (Routledge 2018).
Michael J. Shapiro is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai‘I at Manoa, Honolulu, USA. Among his recent publications are Punctuations: How the Arts Think the Political (Duke UP, 2019) and The Cinematic Political: Film Composition as Political Theory (Routledge, 2020).
