The Reproduction of Pakistan through Globalization, Mediatization, and Social Networks
[Thesis]
Mahmood, Tariq
Moog, Robert
North Carolina State University
2019
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Ph.D.
North Carolina State University
2019
This study examines Pakistan in the context of contemporary social forces of globalization, mediatization, and social networks. The study construes Pakistan as a logic that has appropriated social territories of media, politics, culture, and security. It is a departure from conventional studies of Pakistan from a nationalist perspective either in the critical tradition or the structural-functional paradigm. The theoretical frame and methodology of the study facilitate tracing trends and patterns of change that are usually ignored, such as the global reproduction of Pakistan in media and social networks. The study highlights multiple spaces of media, politics, culture, and security, where Pakistan is transformed through globalization, mediatization, and the working of social networks. The analysis of the discursive formation of Pakistan in multiple spaces brings to light diverse and at times contradictory imageries of Pakistan. Some images are more sharp and imposing and are frequently and expansively reproduced than others. There are substantial implications of this approach for scholarship and policymaking concerning Pakistan in the context of media, politics, culture, and security.