2009/01/01 by Maira Hayat, Hayat, Maira
Social Sciences · #South Asian Studies and Conflicts #Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East #Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
paper · doi:10.5287/ora-d5opk2pee
This article explores how the state, from British colonial times to the present day, has engaged with the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (hereafter FATA) of Pakistan.2 The growing literature on the state in political anthropology, where it is conceptualized in terms of everyday processes of state formation producing state effects, will be referred