Pakistan and its diaspora
Subtitle: multidisciplinary approaches
By: edited by Marta Bolognani and Stephen M. Lyon
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780230110939
Subjects: Politics and government; Politics and culture; Social conditions; Migrations; Social change; Pakistanis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Reflections and representations : shifting gazes and the curse of truths  -- Stephen Lyon and Marta Bolgonani -- Rang de Basanti in Pakistan : elite student activism, the emergence of a virtual globalised public sphere, and the 2007 emergency / -- Marta Bolognani; title: Revisiting the UK Muslim diasporic public sphere at a time of terror : from local (benign) invisible spaces to seditious conspiratorial spaces and national media dialogue (previously published in South Asian diaspora)  -- Pnina Werbner; title: Across the fence : belongings and representations between Pakistan and Kashmir  -- Paul Rollier; title: Kashmiris in Britain : a political project or a social reality  -- Martin Sokefeld and Marta Bolognani; title: Changing religious leadership in contemporary Pakistan : the case of the Red Mosque  -- Amelie Blom; title: The religious formation and social roles of imams serving the Pakistani diaspora in the UK  -- Philip Lewis; title: Pakistani women and education : the shifting patterns of ethnicity and class  -- Marie Lall; title: "I really couldn't think of being married, having a family with nothing behind me" : empowerment, education, and British Pakistani women  -- Jody Mellor; title: Being Pakistani beyond Europe and South Asia -- Marta Bolognani and Stephen Lyon.