Book review: Sovereign attachments: masculinity, Muslimness, and affective politics in Pakistan by Shenila Khoja-Moolji

In Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness, and Affective Politics in Pakistan, Shenila Khoja-Moolji explores sovereignty as a relationship and attachment through the case of Pakistan, examining the competing claims to sovereignty made by the Pakistani state and the Pakistan-based Taliban. The book offers valuable insights into sovereignty as an attachment, the possibility of political estrangement and the use of gendered figurations to construct national selves, finds Attash Sawja, and will be of interest to students and researchers across international relations, gender and sexuality studies, Islamic studies and Asian studies. Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness, and Affective Politics in Pakistan. Shenila Khoja-Moolji. University of California Press. 2021.