[Linganth] Sovereign Attachments

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today on the blog, Drew Kerr asks Shenila Khoja-Moolji to discuss her book,
Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness and Affective Politics in
Pakistan.

campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: *Sovereign Attachments *rethinks sovereignty by moving it out
of the exclusive domain of geopolitics and legality and into cultural,
religious, and gender studies. Through a close reading of a stunning array
of cultural texts produced by the Pakistani state and the Pakistan-based
Taliban, Shenila Khoja-Moolji theorizes sovereignty as an ongoing
attachment that is negotiated in public culture. Both the state and the
Taliban recruit publics into relationships of trust, protection, and
fraternity by summoning models of Islamic masculinity, mobilizing kinship
metaphors, and marshalling affect. In particular, masculinity and
Muslimness emerge as salient performances through which sovereign
attachments are harnessed. The book shifts the discussion of sovereignty
away from questions about absolute dominance to ones about shared
repertoires, entanglements, and co-constitution.
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