{"product_id":"access-to-power-naqv-9780197540954","title":"Access to Power: Electricity and the Infrastructural State in Pakistan","description":"This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePakistan would desperately like to produce enough electricity, but it usually doesn't. Despite prioritization by successive governments, targeted reforms shaped by international development actors, and featuring prominently in Chinese Belt and Road investments, the Pakistani power sector continues to stifle economic and social life across the country. Why? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eAccess to Power\u003c\/em\u003e, Ijlal Naqvi explores state capacity in Pakistan by following the material infrastructure of electricity across the provinces and down into cities and homes. Naqvi argues that the national-level challenges of crippling budgetary constraints and power shortages directly result from conscious strategic decisions that are integral to Pakistan's infrastructural state. As he shows, electricity governance in Pakistan reinforces unequal relations of power between provinces and the federal center, contributes to the marginalization of subordinate groups in the city, and cements the patronage-based relationships between Pakistani citizens and the state that have been so detrimental to development progress. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLooking through the lens of the electrical power sector, \u003cem\u003eAccess to Power\u003c\/em\u003e reveals how Pakistan actually works, and to whose benefit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ijlal Naqvi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197540953\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197540954\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/07\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.39h x 6.41w x 0.79d","brand":"Ijlal Naqvi","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44072433385727,"sku":"9780197540954","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b3bb85d0-4b96-4010-94b0-f6b6171ce5fe.jpg?v=1685441937","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/access-to-power-naqv-9780197540954","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}