The New Pakistani Middle Class - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New Pakistani Middle Class write by Ammara Maqsood. This book was released on 2017-11-13. The New Pakistani Middle Class available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pakistan’s presence in the outside world is dominated by images of religious extremism and violence. These images—and the narratives that interpret them—inform events in the international realm, but they also twist back around to shape local class politics. In The New Pakistani Middle Class, Ammara Maqsood focuses on life in contemporary Lahore, where she unravels these narratives to show how central they are for understanding competition and the quest for identity among middle-class groups. Lahore’s traditional middle class has asserted its position in the socioeconomic hierarchy by wielding significant social capital and dominating the politics and economics of urban life. For this traditional middle class, a Muslim identity is about being modern, global, and on the same footing as the West. Recently, however, a more visibly religious, upwardly mobile social group has struggled to distinguish itself against this backdrop of conventional middle-class modernity, by embracing Islamic culture and values. The religious sensibilities of this new middle-class group are often portrayed as Saudi-inspired and Wahhabi. Through a focus on religious study gatherings and also on consumption in middle-class circles—ranging from the choice of religious music and home décor to debit cards and the cut of a woman’s burkha—The New Pakistani Middle Class untangles current trends in piety that both aspire toward, and contest, prevailing ideas of modernity. Maqsood probes how the politics of modernity meets the practices of piety in the struggle among different middle-class groups for social recognition and legitimacy.
New Perspectives on Pakistan's Political Economy
New Perspectives on Pakistan's Political Economy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Perspectives on Pakistan's Political Economy write by Matthew McCartney. This book was released on 2019-07-31. New Perspectives on Pakistan's Political Economy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 emerging scholars but also formulates a new political economy for the country, reflecting the contemporary reality and diversification in the social sciences in Pakistan. The chapters dynamically and dialectically capture emergent processes and trends in framing Pakistan's political economy and invite scholars to engage with and move beyond these concerns and issues.
Big Capital in an Unequal World
Big Capital in an Unequal World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Big Capital in an Unequal World write by Rosita Armytage. This book was released on 2020-01-10. Big Capital in an Unequal World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Inside the hidden lives of the global “1%”, this book examines the networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of Pakistan’s elite. Benefitting from rare access and keen analytical insight, Rosita Armytage’s rich study reveals the daily, even mundane, ways in which elites contribute to and shape the inequality that characterizes the modern world. Operating in a rapidly developing economic environment, the experience of Pakistan’s wealthiest and most powerful members contradicts widely held assumptions that economic growth is leading to increasingly impersonalized and globally standardized economic and political structures.
Hidden Histories of Pakistan
Hidden Histories of Pakistan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hidden Histories of Pakistan write by Sarah Fatima Waheed. This book was released on 2022-01-20. Hidden Histories of Pakistan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the role of progressive Muslim intellectuals in the Pakistan movement through the lens of censorship.
Transforming Faith
Transforming Faith - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transforming Faith write by Sadaf Ahmad. This book was released on 2009-11-25. Transforming Faith available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the last decade, there has been an increasing number of middle and upper-class urban Pakistani women actively turning toward Islam via Al-Huda, an Islamic school for women aiming to transform the women who absorb its message into “pious” subjects. Established in the early 1990s, Al-Huda is unique in its ability to attract a following among these women, a feat other religious groups have been unsuccessful in accomplishing. In Transforming Faith, Sadaf Ahmad deftly explores how Al-Huda is fostering a new generation of educated, urban, middle-class women to become veiled conservatives. She offers an engrossing and sensitive account of how the school’s aggressive recruiting methods through informal religious study groups and a one-year degree program combined with the school’s techniques of persuasive teaching methods have turned Al-Huda into a social movement. As a woman of Pakistani origin, Ahmad offers an in-depth look at the students and members of Al-Huda in ways that a cultural outsider would be excluded from doing. She reveals that although Pakistani women are better educated than ever before they still face social barriers that limit them from working or pursuing further education. Ahmad’s groundbreaking work demonstrates Al-Huda’s ever-widening teachings and influence in Pakistan and in its recent global extensions. More broadly, this book illuminates how Al-Huda uses the trappings of modernity to engage educated women in a kind of religious study that transforms their ideology, behavior, and lifestyle within a particular Islamic framework. Because of Al-Huda’s teachings, Pakistani society is changing, as is the rest of the Muslim world.
