Naveeda Khan (ed.), Beyond Crisis: Re-evaluating Pakistan

Crisis, failure and instability are the regular tropes that seem to orient scholarship on Pakistan. Several recently published edited volumes demonstrate the broader imperative to move ‘beyond’ such iterations of crisis by cultivating alternative representations, either through political and economic commentary (Lodhi 2011), or conversely, through attention to the social and cultural aspects neglected by policy-driven analyses, such as visual culture (Zaidi 2009), literature and the arts (Fre...