{"product_id":"towards-peoples-histories-in-pakistan-inaudible-voices-forgotten-pasts-paperback","title":"Towards Peoples' Histories in Pakistan: (In)audible Voices, Forgotten Pasts - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKamran Asdar Ali\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAsad Ali\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter seventy-five years of independence, the history of Pakistan remains centered on the state, its ideology and the two-nation theory. \u003ci\u003eTowards Peoples' Histories in Pakistan\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to shift that focus away from histories of an imagined nation, to the history of its peoples. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased on the premise that the historiographical tradition in Pakistan has ignored the existence of people who actually make history, this book brings together historians, anthropologists, sociologists and political scientists to shed light on the diverse histories of the people themselves. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAssembling histories of events and peoples missing from grand narratives of national history, the essays in this collection incorporate a diversity of approaches to the past as it opens the possibilities of multiple histories, the archives through which they are registered, and the various temporalities in which they persist. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe volume highlights and recuperates the entangled nature of history and memory within Pakistan's social and cultural life. By critically examining both leftist and nationalist thought, \u003ci\u003eTowards People's Histories in Pakistan\u003c\/i\u003e explores competing visions of what is meant by 'the people', and charts new ground in developing the promise of people's histories both within Pakistan and beyond.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKamran Asdar Ali \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of \u003ci\u003ePlanning the Family in Egypt: New Bodies, New Selves \u003c\/i\u003e(UT Press, 2002) and \u003ci\u003eCommunism in Pakistan: Politics and Class Activism 1947-1972\u003c\/i\u003e (I.B Tauris 2015). Ali has been the President of the American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS: 2011-2017), the Director of the South Asia Institute, UT, Austin (2010-2017) and the Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAsad Ali \u003c\/b\u003eis an independent scholar based in the UK. He is the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eLove, War and Other Longings: Essays on cinema in Pakistan\u003c\/i\u003e (OUP 2020) and has taught at North American Institutions including New York University, Rutgers and Harvard. He is currently completing a manuscript entitled \u003ci\u003eLanguages of the Law: Islam, Liberalism and Moral Community in Pakistan\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 28, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52637478551859,"sku":"9781350261228","price":78.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/ZA1znT6ANH9781350261228.webp?v=1762289630","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/towards-peoples-histories-in-pakistan-inaudible-voices-forgotten-pasts-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}