#clientism

[zenosanalytic]

The Moral Economy of the Shire

Who paid for this? There’s a certain meme that I see making the rounds on Facebook every so often about the bucolic nature of life in the Sh

Found a link to this over on bluesky and liked it, and thought ppl over here might like it too ^v^

[neoliberalistan]

Just the squabbling middle classes?

This 2000 book chapter by Prof Mushtaq Khan of SOAS (London) explores the hypothesis that secularism and religion are simply labels for competing middle class groups vying for resources and that the Eurocentric class connotations of secularism and socialism do not apply in the politics of South Asia. (Source: Shafiur's Imperfect World Blog)

It presents a long and ecological reading of political movement in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh over the past century. Well worth a read.