BOOK LAUNCH AT HAST-O-NEEST

“Beyond Crisis: Re-Evaluating Pakistan” 

 Edited by Naveeda Khan, Johns Hopkins University (USA)

The volume brings together contributions from scholars who engage critically with the categories of analysis typically used for thinking about Pakistan.

The ambition of this volume is not only to complicate standing representations of Pakistan, it is to take Pakistan out of the status of exceptionalism that its multiple crises have endowed upon it.  

This book inaugurates a new moment in Pakistan studies by asking how we are to understand the lives of ordinary people as they work to make their country inhabitale, even in the midst of anxious discourses about a crisis of nationalism and a failed state that is commonly found in academic writings and media reportage. http://www.pakistanstudies-aips.org/resources/publications/docs/Beyond_Crisis.pdf

                                                                                                                                                           


Venue: Hast-o-Neest Centre for Traditional Art and Culture (10, Commercial Building, at the corner of Anarkali and The Mall; former Croweaters Gallery near Tollington) Date:  Sunday 2^nd January, 2011    Timing:  3:00 – 5:00 p.m                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Programme:

Khawar Khan Mumtaz: "Rethinking Crisis and Pakistan"

Naveeda Khan: “Pakistan: A State of Exception?”

Humeira Iqtidar: “Religious Nationalism, Islam and Islamism- Questioning the Lineage”

Q&A Session

Tea and Snacks 

For directions & details call:                                                                                                                                042-37-314-316, 03008493170, 03324359211