On citizenship, belonging, and the movement in Gilgit-Baltistan

Polis Project Conversation Series

In this podcast, Francesca Rechhia talks to Prof. Nosheen Ali, a Pakistani sociologist, author, and activist about the state of education in Gilgit-Baltistan, the threats to activism, and the influence of the military. Ali is a part of the Global Faculty in Residence at New York University's Gallatin School of Indivualized Studies. She works and writes across a wide range of themes, including feminist theories of the state, seed justice, and Muslim cultural politics. Nosheen Ali is the author of Delusional States: Feeling Rule and Development in Pakistan’s Northern Frontier(Cambridge University Press, 2019), a book that explores state-making and social change in Gilgit-Baltistan, a Shia-majority region of Sunni-dominated Pakistan and a contested border area that forms part of disputed Kashmir.