My latest piece for LSE blog introduces the idea of layered continuity. If you would like to read how I apply this argument to Pakistan’s FATA merger, I have expanded on it here: open.substack.com/pub/aliaqaim...

Pakistan’s FATA Merger Was the Latest Layer

The 2018 merger transformed Pakistan's constitutional map, but it did not erase the political and economic arrangements that came before it.

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LSE Department of International Development@lseid.bsky.social · 2w ago

Our alum Alia Qaim Bukhari (@aliaqaim.bsky.social) argues that development interventions rarely replace existing systems of authority and access. Instead, new rules, institutions and reforms are layered onto older arrangements, producing change through accumulation rather than rupture.

I am delighted to share that Layered Continuity, published by @routledgeeditor.bsky.social, is finally in my hands. It is a book about what changes when change doesn’t arrive as a rupture. #NewBook #Pakistan #Borderlands #PoliticalAnthropology #DevelopmentStudies #SouthAsia