Half baked

This section is a collection of half baked academic ideas burrowed or original, but not fully developed. Many posts are my attempts to get published elsewhere.

Making sense of the Imran Khan ‘Narrative’ in the Information Age

In this essay, I argue that it makes sense to focus on PTI’s tendencies towards extremism that are a product of Pakistan’s contentious political culture in the Information Age. I will show that clarity requires for all sides to look beyond their position on the political spectrum in an increasingly multi-polar world. I will also show that a personalization of politics due to new media is influencing identity-based citizen mobilization in ways we don’t fully understand. But a cultural perspective is necessary for a closer examination.

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