Itty Abraham

South Asian Cultures of the Bomb

Atomic Publics and the State in India and Pakistan
Herausgeber: Abraham, Itty

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Since their founding as independent nations, nuclear issues have been key elements of nationalism and the public sphere in both India and Pakistan. Yet the relationship between nuclear arms and civil society in the region is seldom taken into account in conventional security studies. These original and provocative essays examine the political and ideological components of national drives to possess and test nuclear weapons. Equal coverage for comparable issues in each country frames the volume as a genuine dialogue across this contested boundary.

Produktdetails

• Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9780253220325
• ISBN-10: 0253220327
• Artikelnr.: 23580054

Autorenporträt

edited by Itty Abraham

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Nuclear Power and Atomic Publics / Itty Abraham
2. Fevered with Dreams of the Future: The Coming of the Atomic Age to
Pakistan / Zia Mian
3. India's Nuclear Enclave and the Practice of Secrecy / M. V. Ramana
4. The Social Life of a Bomb: India and the Ontology of an "Overpopulated"
Society / Sankaran Krishna
5. Pride and Proliferation: Pakistan's Nuclear Psyche after A. Q. Khan /
Ammara Durrani
6. The Politics of Death: The Antinuclear Imaginary in India / Srirupa Roy
7. Pakistan's Atomic Publics: Survey Results / Haider Nizamani
8. Gods, Bombs, and the Social Imaginary / Raminder Kaur
9. Nuclearization and Pakistani Popular Culture since 1998 / Iftikhar Dadi
10. Guardians of the Nuclear Myth: Politics, Ideology, and India's
Strategic Community / Karsten Frey
List of Contributors
Index