Access to Power Electricity and the Infrastructural State in Pakistan - Modern Southeast Asia Series

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.

ISBN:	9780197540954
Publisher:	OUP USA
Imprint:	Oxford University Press
Published date:	13 Nov 2022
DEWEY:	333.79095491
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	192
Weight:	458g
Height:	235mm
Width:	156mm
Spine width:	20mm

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