Schild, Pascale (2022). From earthquake victims to citizens: dependencies and precarious claims on the state in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. Citzenship studies, 26(3), pp. 305-321. Taylor & Francis 10.1080/13621025.2022.2062703
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Based on ethnographic research after the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan-controlled Azad Kashmir, this article uses ‘disaster citizenship’ as a conceptual lens focusing on how people renegotiated their relationships with the state in the context of political interventions for reconstruction. The promise of relief encouraged the poor to make new claims on the state as disaster victims and needy citizens deserving material assistance. Given the social and political inequalities and limited democratic rights in post-disaster Azad Kashmir, people pursued a politics of citizenship that resisted both notions of liberal rights and neoliberal politics of self-responsibility, seeking instead rightful material dependence on the state. This dependence was ambivalent and precarious as the poor were often deprived of the material rights they claimed. Therefore, disaster citizenship remained deeply entangled with social dependencies, and people had to resort to favors, bribes, and submissive patron-client relationships to access state resources and counter their political neglect.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Social Anthropology 06 Faculty of Humanities > Other Institutions > Walter Benjamin Kolleg (WBKolleg) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Schild, Pascale |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology |
ISSN: |
1469-3593 |
Publisher: |
Taylor & Francis |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Pascale Schild |
Date Deposited: |
26 Apr 2022 11:34 |
Last Modified: |
17 Oct 2023 07:06 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1080/13621025.2022.2062703 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
disaster citizenship, claims making, dependence on the state, reconstruction, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/169427 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/169427 |
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