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Adeem Suhail Interview
No full textThis interview with Adeem Suhail was conducted as part of HUF’s Mera Shahar series. Suhail, a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin, discusses his childhood growing up in Karachi, Pakistan. He describes the city in general, recounts his school days, and tells an amusing story of being “held up” at gunpoint. Suhail also discusses the rapid changes occurring in present day Karachi.Asian Studie
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The Pakistan National Alliance of 1977
No full texttextThis study focuses on the Pakistan National Alliance (PNA) and the movement associated with that party, in the aftermath of the 1977 elections in Pakistan. Through this study, the author addresses the issue of regionalism and its effects on politics at a National level. A study of the course of the movement also allows one to look at the problems in representation and how ideological stances merge with material conditions and needs of the country’s citizenry to articulate the desire for, what is basically, an equitable form of democracy that is peculiar to Pakistan. The form of such a democratic system of governance can be gauged through the frustrations and desires of the variety of Pakistan’s oppressed classes. Moreover, the fissures within the discourses that appear through the PNA, as well as their reassessment and analysis helps one formulate a fresh conception of resistance along different matrices of society within the country.Asian Studie
The clothes have no emperor! Reflections on the crisis of violence in Lyari Town, Pakistan
No full textThis report seeks to decenter the dominant discourse of criminality and gang-violence which has become wedded to Lyari Town, Karachi, Pakistan.
The study builds upon the insights and analyses of scholars who have sought to interrogate the state of affairs in Karachi but also deviates in important ways from the questions scholars have usually asked of Karachi by exploring the one aspect on which much of this scholarship has, for various and understandable reasons, hitherto been silent. For the partiality of our narratives may hold the possibility that the very element that escapes the analysis is the one that makes or breaks any analysis
State, society and power towards a new political economy of Pakistan
No full textFive sc holars engage with S Akbar Zaidi's proposed agenda for research in the political economy of Pakistan, "Rethinking Pakistan's Political Economy" (1 Febr uar y 2014). Majed A k hter introduces the discussion, Aasim Sajjad Akhtar discusses the hegemonic "politics of common sense", Fahd Ali draws on postcolon ia l theor y to engage Zaidi's use of "political settlements", Umair Javed focuses on associational politics in Punjab and Adeem Suhail theorises "the negotiated state" based on his fieldwork in Karachi. Zaidi responds to the critiques by suggest i ng they are not ruthless enough
MOVEMENT 5. SENSING THE AFFECTIVE LIVES OF ARRANGEMENTS
No full textThis final movement explores whether thinking with re-arrangements can help us account for that which is hidden, unseen or nested in the recesses and folds of urban practices. And if so, how we might then talk about and account for elusive parts of an arrangement that both exert an influence and are influenced. This essay uses sensibilities as an entry point into the intangible interactions between subjects and (re)arrangements
MOVEMENT 4. BREATH SIGH TEMPEST: On the Temporal Dimensions of Re-arrangements
No full textThe fourth movement explores the temporal relationship between arrangements and re-arrangements, addressing the question of how an obdurate and ‘sticky’ temporal order may give way to palpable re-arrangement of the ways in which subjects experience time. Eschewing a concern with linear homogenous time, it addresses the processes of re-arrangement by understanding the dynamics of grave events, hauntings of the past, subtly changing rhythms of everyday life, and the force of potential futures in synchrony
