'A major analysis of our world's political crisis and a brilliant critique of the ideology of middle class aspiration'
Joel Wainwright, Professor at Ohio State University
'Shows how an aspirational idea of the middle class reinforces the subordination of dispossessed labour, ethnic minorities in peripheral territories, terrorists and deviant dissenters. This wide-ranging book is sure to stimulate critical scholarship and organic intellectual activism both inside and outside South Asia'
Barbara Harriss-White, Emeritus Professor and Fellow, Wolfson College Oxford University
'Akhtar powerfully channels the spirit of Gramsci and Fanon to critique neoliberal hegemony in Pakistan - and to diagnose the next great battlefield for the Afro-Asian Left: the values, aspirations, and solidarities of the digitised youth across core and periphery'
Majed Akhter, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography, King's College London