Access to Power
Electricity and the Infrastructural State in Pakistan
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 16 December 2022
- ISBN 9780197540954
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 163x239x20 mm
- Weight 458 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 b/w line drawings; 2 tables 263
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Short description:
One of Pakistan's largest problems is its inability to produce enough electricity. 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. He argues that the national challenges of budgetary constraints and power shortages directly result from conscious strategic decisions that are integral to Pakistan's infrastructural state. Looking through the lens of the electrical power sector, this book reveals how Pakistan actually functions and to whose benefit.
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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.
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
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Part I: The National Level of Analysis
Chapter 2: The Inter-Provincial Unevenness of the Infrastructural State
Chapter 3: Pathologies of Development Practice
Part II: The City
Chapter 4: The Administration of Losses
Chapter 5: Negotiating Formality in Islamabad's Katchi Abadis
Part III: Individual Level of Analysis
Chapter 6: Governance as an emergent compromise
Chapter 7: Money, Violence, and Connections: The Culture of Power
Chapter 8: Conclusion
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