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SUMMARY:The State\, Bureaucracy\, and Policy in Contemporary Pakistan
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DESCRIPTION:Scholarship on contemporary Pakistan remains fragmented across
  theoretical and methodological approaches structured by disciplinary trad
 itions (Political Sociology\, Anthropology\, Comparative Politics\, South 
 Asian Studies)\, journals\, and academic institutions in which scholars of
  Pakistan are dispersed. While this fragmentation has enabled prolific res
 earch embracing a plurality of approaches and objects\, it has also depriv
 ed scholars of shared intellectual platforms in which to engage collective
 ly in a reflection on contemporary Pakistan.\n\nThis workshop seeks to pro
 vide such a space. It brings together current research focusing on the rol
 e of the state\, bureaucracy\, and public policy to illuminate social and 
 political transformations (re)shaping contemporary Pakistan\, whether rela
 ted to issues of class\, health\, religion\, gender\, security\, discrimin
 ation\, or the economy.\n\nPakistan has inherited and reproduced an “ove
 rdeveloped” postcolonial state structure\, as coined by Pakistani sociol
 ogist Hamza Alavi in a famous 1972 essay\, blending civilian administratio
 n and military apparatus. Interestingly\, scholarship on Pakistan has hist
 orically devoted sustained attention in the study of the state and its rol
 e in shaping society. Whether this academic inclination constitutes a dist
 orted effect of Pakistan’s official state-centric narrative\, or instead
  simply follows the empirical centrality of the state in regulating social
  life is yet to be assessed. It nonetheless provides a heuristic point of 
 departure to engage in a collective reflection on contemporary Pakistan an
 d its transformations.\n\nThe workshop will be structured around eight ind
 ividual presentations\, interspersed with collective discussions\, and wil
 l conclude with a synthesis and set of shared conclusions. It is part of a
 n annual workshop funded by the OxPo programme: https://www.politics.ox.ac
 .uk/research-centre/oxpo/oxpo-network.
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LOCATION:Nuffield College - Chester Room (staircase C)\, Chester Room (sta
 ircase C) Nuffield College New Road Oxford Oxfordshire OX1 1NF United King
 dom
SPEAKER:Christophe Jaffrelot (Sciences Po)\, Laurent Gayer (Sciences Po)\,
  Zoha Waseem (University of Warwick)\, Guillaume Beaud (University of Oxfo
 rd - Sciences Po)\, Sameen Mohsin Ali (University of Birmingham)\, Maria R
 ashid (University of Wolverhampton)\, Yasser Kuresh (University of Oxford)
 \, Ayaz Qureshi (University of Edinburgh)\, Sanaa Alimia (Aga Khan Univers
 ity)\, Adnan Naseemullah (University of Oxford)
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