Access to Power

Ijlal Naqvi is Associate Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean for Curriculum and Teaching at the School of Social Sciences of Singapore Management University. He is interested in how states work on an everyday basis and draws on the fields of development sociology and urban studies in his research. Before becoming an academic Ijlal worked as a business consultant in the US and for the Pakistani government. Ijlal earned his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has a MA in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, and a BA from Middlebury College.

• AcknowledgmentsChapter 1: IntroductionPart I: The National Level of AnalysisChapter 2: The Inter-Provincial Unevenness of the Infrastructural StateChapter 3: Pathologies of Development PracticePart II: The CityChapter 4: The Administration of LossesChapter 5: Negotiating Formality in Islamabad's Katchi AbadisPart III: Individual Level of AnalysisChapter 6: Governance as an emergent compromiseChapter 7: Money, Violence, and Connections: The Culture of PowerChapter 8: ConclusionReferencesIndex

Access to Power is a conceptually sophisticated analysis of how different kinds of consumers at the national, city and individual levels negotiate with Pakistan's long-faltering energy sector. Based on a wide range of interviews, it offers rare insights into the changing interstices of state and society in Pakistan." -Ayesha Jalal, Mary Richardson Professor of History and Director, Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies, Tufts University