Access to Power

Electricity and the Infrastructural State in Pakistan

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Av Ijlal Naqvi, Singapore Management University) Naqvi, Ijlal (Associate Professor of Sociology, Associate Professor of Sociology

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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.Pakistan would desperately like to produce enough electricity, but it usually doesn't. Despite prioritization by successive governments, targeted reforms shaped by international development actors, and featuring prominently in Chinese Belt and Road investments, the Pakistani power sector continues to stifle economic and social life across the country. Why?In Access to Power, Ijlal Naqvi explores state capacity in Pakistan by following the material infrastructure of electricity across the provinces and down into cities and homes. Naqvi argues that the national-level challenges of crippling budgetary constraints and power shortages directly result from conscious strategic decisions that are integral to Pakistan's infrastructural state. As he shows, electricity governance in Pakistan reinforces unequal relations of power between provinces and the federal center, contributes to the marginalization of subordinate groups in the city, and cements the patronage-based relationships between Pakistani citizens and the state that have been so detrimental to development progress. Looking through the lens of the electrical power sector, Access to Power reveals how Pakistan actually works, and to whose benefit.

Produktinformation

  • Utgivningsdatum2022-12-16
  • Mått239 x 163 x 20 mm
  • Vikt458 g
  • SpråkEngelska
  • SerieMODERN SOUTH ASIA SERIES
  • Antal sidor208
  • FörlagOUP USA
  • EAN9780197540954
  • UtmärkelserHonorable Mention, 2025 AIPS Book Prize

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