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Since 1947 the people of Gilgit-Baltistan have called for integration within the Pakistani state and the extension of fundamental rights to them. This thesis examines how the region's liminality stems from the ambiguities in sovereignty in the colonial and post-colonial period. …

My objective in this dissertation is to theorise processes of subjectivity formation among English-speaking Western women living in Gilgit, the largest town and international development headquarters in Pakistan's Northern Areas. I draw on various poststructural, postcolonial, a…