01267    a2200133   4500020001800000082002600018100002000044245008600064260004800150300001600198504002300214520073500237650016100972  a9781108472920  a363.3493095491bSID-I  aSiddiqi, Ayesha  aIn the wake of disasterb: Islamists, the state and a social contract in Pakistan  bCambridge University Pressc2019aCambridge  axiii, 186p.  aInclude References  aWhat is the state's responsibility to its people in the aftermath of a natural hazard-based disaster? The book sets out to address this seemingly simple question after large scale floods devastated Pakistan in 2010 and then again in 2011. Along the way, it delves into rich detail about people's everyday encounters with the state in Pakistan, uncovers postcolonial discourses on rights of citizenship and dispels mainstream understanding of Islamist groups as presenting an alternative development paradigm to the state. Based on detailed ethnographic fieldwork, In the Wake of the Disaster forces the reader to look beyond narratives of Pakistan as the perennial 'failing state' falling victim to an imminent 'Islamist takeover'  aDisaster Management vFloods--Social aspectsvDisaster relief--Government policyvDisaster victimsvPolitics and government--1988vIslam and statezPakistan