{"id":32192,"date":"2020-08-03T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=32192"},"modified":"2020-07-23T14:37:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T21:37:31","slug":"new-book-by-anita-weiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/new-book-by-anita-weiss\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book: &#8220;Countering Violent Extremism in Pakistan&#8221; by Anita Weiss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"293\" height=\"379\" src=\"https:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/GetAttachmentThumbnail.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/GetAttachmentThumbnail.png 293w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/GetAttachmentThumbnail-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/GetAttachmentThumbnail-116x150.png 116w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/GetAttachmentThumbnail-260x336.png 260w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/GetAttachmentThumbnail-160x207.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Countering Violent Extremism in Pakistan: Local Actions, Local Voices, by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uoregon.edu\/anitaweiss\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anita M. Weiss<\/a> (Oxford University Press, 2020).<\/strong> \u201cThis book identi\ufb01es and analyzes the impact of the various ways in which local people are responding, taking stands, recapturing their culture, and saying \u2018stop\u2019 to the violent extremism that has manifested over the past decade (even longer) in Pakistan. Local groups throughout Pakistan are engaging in various kinds of social negotiations and actions to lessen the violence that has plagued the country since the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan which let loose a barrage of violence that over\ufb02owed into its borders. In so many ways, Pakistanis are engaging in powerful actions that transform how people think about their own society, impeding extremists\u2019 rants while acting on \u2018envisioning alternative futures\u2019. This book, hence, focuses on \ufb01nding the sparks of hope that local people are creating to counter violent extremism. Based on close ethnographic study of ground realities, it looks at not only what people are doing but why they are selecting these kinds of actions, how they are creating alternative narratives about culture and identity, and their vision of a future without violence. This book is also designed to celebrate what is \ufb02ourishing in cultural performances, music, social activism, and the like in Pakistan today because of people\u2019s commitment to take stands against extremism.\u201d \u2014<em>from the publisher<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Anita Weiss is a professor of global studies and a CSWS faculty affiliate.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Countering Violent Extremism in Pakistan: Local Actions, Local Voices, by Anita M. Weiss (Oxford University Press, 2020). \u201cThis book identi\ufb01es and analyzes the impact of the various ways in which local people are responding, taking stands, recapturing their culture, and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/new-book-by-anita-weiss\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":31894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,8,17,696],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-issues","category-books","category-faculty-affiliates","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32194,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32192\/revisions\/32194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}