[Commlist] New book – Dissenting Counter-Publics in Pakistan

Book Announcement

Dissenting Counter-Publics in Pakistani Social Media and Café Culture
This book analyses how anti-state or counterpublics have emerged across 
mediated and physical spaces to respond to the state-led narrative of 
Pakistani identity. It aims to trace the rise of counterpublic spheres 
and anti-establishment discourses across different arenas—Twitter, 
YouTube, and local coffee houses. These spaces, both individually and 
collectively, offer unprecedented affordances that challenge 
traditionally immutable subjects such as the use of blasphemy as a 
political tool, nationalism, and national identity in Muslim contexts. 
As such, these counterpublic spheres have created opportunities for 
episodic deliberation on national identity and religion, and on how both 
shape the individual and collective identity of the Pakistani nation.
Table of Contents (Reduced)

 1.
    Introduction
 2.
    Between Honour and Heresy: Rearticulating Aurat March on X
 3.
    Contemporary Feminist Activism in Pakistan: The Online, Offline
    Continuum
 4.
    Cultural Citizenship in Harmony and Dissonance: Coke Studio and the
    YouTube Public Sphere
 5.
    Under Surveillance: How Podcasting on YouTube Redefines the Media
    Landscape of Pakistan
 6.
    Locating Counter-publics in Community Spaces and Cafes
 7.
    Concluding Remarks


Available at:
SpringerLink: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-05522-4 
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-05522-4>
Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F2WFMWG4 
<https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F2WFMWG4>
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