Tarique Niazi
Biographic Data
| ID | 129142 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tarique Niazi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tarique |
| FAMILY NAME | Niazi |
| SIGNATURE | NIAZI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7263-5617 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mega Disasters and World Militaries
Mega disasters, such as Typhoon Haiyan that struck the Philippines in 2013, have expanded world militaries’ roster of duties to include battling the elements. Although militaries in their national jurisdictions have long been helping rescue distraught publics from cataclysmic events, they always have been the last line of defense. Mega disasters of today, however, have catapulted them into the role of first responders. In this role, they are now …
Should Elevation of Climate Change to a “National Security Threat” Be Scorned or Celebrated
Additional informationNotes on contributorsTarique NiaziTarique Niazi, Ph.D. is a Professor of Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, WI. E-mail: [email protected]
Contesting Instrumental Knowledge With Communicative Action
The building of Kalabagh Dam—Pakistan’s largest hydropower development project—has been stalled for decades. This article interrogates why and how this project has been grounded for so long. It shows that the state and its administrative agencies that support dam building rest their case on “expert” knowledge, while dismissing the counterknowledge produced by the anti-dam coalition of environmentalists, nationalists, and spiritualists as “inexper…
Scott Straus & Barry Driscoll. International Studies
Gunther Schlee and Alexander Horstmann. Difference and Sameness as Modes of Integration
Globalization, Deindustrialization and Identity
Book review on: Vaccaro, Ismael, Krista Harper & Seth Murray (Eds.). The Anthropology of Postindustrialism: Ethnographies of Disconnection. New York: Routledge, 2016. Hylland, Thomas Eriksen & Elisabeth Schober (Eds.) Identity Destabilised: Living in an Overheated World. London: Pluto Press. 2016
Protection of Human Rights or State Sovereignty
Book review on: Hehir, A. & Murray, R. Protecting Human Rights in the 21st Century. London: Routledge. Yilmaz, G. Minority Rights in Turkey: A Battlefield for Europeanization. London: Routledge, 2017
Vogel, S. Thinking like a Mall
Networked Publics and Digital Contention
Mohamed Zayani productively engages an enduring debate in media studies as to whether communication technologies initiate change or reinforce it. In his acclaimed study, Networked Publics and Digital Contention: The Politics of Everyday Life in Tunisia, he dispassionately lays out the key arguments dominating this debate, which can be termed as “idealism” and “materialism,” although Zayani himself doesn't couch them as such. Idealists echo Marsha…
The primordial refugees
Global responses to Syrian refugees reveal a contradiction in state-society relations. Many groups in civil society want to assist the refugees, while many state officials want to limit or entirely prevent refugee admissions. To explain the anomaly of civil society pressuring a reluctant state to open its borders to refugees, this essay reviews forced migration traditions in five world religions, three of them monotheistic and one each pantheisti…
Ground Zero of Climate Change
Superstorm Haiyan made a devastating landfall in the east-central Philippines on November 8, 2013, leaving behind a trail of death and destruction that draped the whole country in a pall of grief. The Philippines has since been reeling from this disaster. The typhoon buffeted the most vulnerable of Filipinos, 40% of whom live below the poverty line (i.e., $1.25 a day). Many of them fished for a living. Their livelihood compelled them to live dang…
The Asia-Pacific in the Eye of Super-storms
Super-storm Haiyan made a devastating landfall in the east-central Philippines on November 8, leaving behind a trail of death and destruction that has draped the whole country in a pall of grief. The Philippines has since been reeling from this disaster. The typhoon buffeted the most vulnerable of Filipinos, 40% of whom live below the poverty line (i.e., $1.25 a day). Many of them fished for living. Their livelihood compelled them to live dangero…
The Turnaround in Sino-Indian Relations
Many observers have recently argued that the newly forged Indo-U.S. alliance will work against its "intended aims of Chinese encirclement." Although India denies its part in any attempt at "Chinese containment" to the publicly acknowledged satisfaction of China, the theory nevertheless persists. China's response to the Indo-U.S. alliance is, however, quite creative. Instead of reacting with alarm, Beijing has gone on a charm offensive to draw New…
Asia Between China and India
Relations between China and India have long been marked by an ambivalence that has led some observers to describe them as "neither friends nor foes." In the late 1940s, when China and India won freedom from imperial powers and established new governments, their relations were warm. From the late 1950s, however, relations deteriorated, notably from the Dalai Lama's 1959 flight from Tibet and his refuge in India. This was followed by a succession o…
China, India and the Future of South Asia
China's growing presence in South Asia is riding on its accelerated economic and strategic influence in the region. This article gauges the interplay between economic, particularly resource factors, and strategic factors in China's advance in the region and its relations with South Asian nations. One measure of China's economic outreach is its current trade volume with all South Asian nations, which now approaches $20 billion a year. [1] Its bila…
Rural Poverty and the Green Revolution
This article argues that the Green Revolution in Pakistan has failed to live up to its promise of ending hunger, unemployment and poverty. An analysis of the time series data of the past four decades points to the worsening of inequalities in income and asset distribution, contributing to the poverty of one in every three Pakistanis [World Bank, 2002, 1992]. The article measures the distributional impact of the Green Revolution in three allied ar…
Rural Poverty and the Green Revolution
This article argues that the Green Revolution in Pakistan has failed to live up to its promise of ending hunger, unemployment and poverty. An analysis of the time series data of the past four decades points to the worsening of inequalities in income and asset distribution, contributing to the poverty of one in every three Pakistanis [World Bank, 2002, 1992]. The article measures the distributional impact of the Green Revolution in three allied ar…
The primordial refugees
Global responses to Syrian refugees reveal a contradiction in state-society relations. Many groups in civil society want to assist the refugees, while many state officials want to limit or entirely prevent refugee admissions. To explain the anomaly of civil society pressuring a reluctant state to open its borders to refugees, this essay reviews forced migration traditions in five world religions, three of them monotheistic and one each pantheisti…
Should Elevation of Climate Change to a “National Security Threat” Be Scorned or Celebrated
Additional informationNotes on contributorsTarique NiaziTarique Niazi, Ph.D. is a Professor of Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, WI. E-mail: [email protected]
Rural Poverty and the Green Revolution
This article argues that the Green Revolution in Pakistan has failed to live up to its promise of ending hunger, unemployment and poverty. An analysis of the time series data of the past four decades points to the worsening of inequalities in income and asset distribution, contributing to the poverty of one in every three Pakistanis [World Bank, 2002, 1992]. The article measures the distributional impact of the Green Revolution in three allied ar…
China, India and the Future of South Asia
China's growing presence in South Asia is riding on its accelerated economic and strategic influence in the region. This article gauges the interplay between economic, particularly resource factors, and strategic factors in China's advance in the region and its relations with South Asian nations. One measure of China's economic outreach is its current trade volume with all South Asian nations, which now approaches $20 billion a year. [1] Its bila…
Asia Between China and India
Relations between China and India have long been marked by an ambivalence that has led some observers to describe them as "neither friends nor foes." In the late 1940s, when China and India won freedom from imperial powers and established new governments, their relations were warm. From the late 1950s, however, relations deteriorated, notably from the Dalai Lama's 1959 flight from Tibet and his refuge in India. This was followed by a succession o…
The Turnaround in Sino-Indian Relations
Many observers have recently argued that the newly forged Indo-U.S. alliance will work against its "intended aims of Chinese encirclement." Although India denies its part in any attempt at "Chinese containment" to the publicly acknowledged satisfaction of China, the theory nevertheless persists. China's response to the Indo-U.S. alliance is, however, quite creative. Instead of reacting with alarm, Beijing has gone on a charm offensive to draw New…
The Asia-Pacific in the Eye of Super-storms
Super-storm Haiyan made a devastating landfall in the east-central Philippines on November 8, leaving behind a trail of death and destruction that has draped the whole country in a pall of grief. The Philippines has since been reeling from this disaster. The typhoon buffeted the most vulnerable of Filipinos, 40% of whom live below the poverty line (i.e., $1.25 a day). Many of them fished for living. Their livelihood compelled them to live dangero…
Ground Zero of Climate Change
Superstorm Haiyan made a devastating landfall in the east-central Philippines on November 8, 2013, leaving behind a trail of death and destruction that draped the whole country in a pall of grief. The Philippines has since been reeling from this disaster. The typhoon buffeted the most vulnerable of Filipinos, 40% of whom live below the poverty line (i.e., $1.25 a day). Many of them fished for a living. Their livelihood compelled them to live dang…
The primordial refugees
Global responses to Syrian refugees reveal a contradiction in state-society relations. Many groups in civil society want to assist the refugees, while many state officials want to limit or entirely prevent refugee admissions. To explain the anomaly of civil society pressuring a reluctant state to open its borders to refugees, this essay reviews forced migration traditions in five world religions, three of them monotheistic and one each pantheisti…
Globalization, Deindustrialization and Identity
Book review on: Vaccaro, Ismael, Krista Harper & Seth Murray (Eds.). The Anthropology of Postindustrialism: Ethnographies of Disconnection. New York: Routledge, 2016. Hylland, Thomas Eriksen & Elisabeth Schober (Eds.) Identity Destabilised: Living in an Overheated World. London: Pluto Press. 2016
Protection of Human Rights or State Sovereignty
Book review on: Hehir, A. & Murray, R. Protecting Human Rights in the 21st Century. London: Routledge. Yilmaz, G. Minority Rights in Turkey: A Battlefield for Europeanization. London: Routledge, 2017
Vogel, S. Thinking like a Mall
Networked Publics and Digital Contention
Mohamed Zayani productively engages an enduring debate in media studies as to whether communication technologies initiate change or reinforce it. In his acclaimed study, Networked Publics and Digital Contention: The Politics of Everyday Life in Tunisia, he dispassionately lays out the key arguments dominating this debate, which can be termed as “idealism” and “materialism,” although Zayani himself doesn't couch them as such. Idealists echo Marsha…
Gunther Schlee and Alexander Horstmann. Difference and Sameness as Modes of Integration
Contesting Instrumental Knowledge With Communicative Action
The building of Kalabagh Dam—Pakistan’s largest hydropower development project—has been stalled for decades. This article interrogates why and how this project has been grounded for so long. It shows that the state and its administrative agencies that support dam building rest their case on “expert” knowledge, while dismissing the counterknowledge produced by the anti-dam coalition of environmentalists, nationalists, and spiritualists as “inexper…
Scott Straus & Barry Driscoll. International Studies
Should Elevation of Climate Change to a “National Security Threat” Be Scorned or Celebrated
Additional informationNotes on contributorsTarique NiaziTarique Niazi, Ph.D. is a Professor of Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, WI. E-mail: [email protected]
Mega Disasters and World Militaries
Mega disasters, such as Typhoon Haiyan that struck the Philippines in 2013, have expanded world militaries’ roster of duties to include battling the elements. Although militaries in their national jurisdictions have long been helping rescue distraught publics from cataclysmic events, they always have been the last line of defense. Mega disasters of today, however, have catapulted them into the role of first responders. In this role, they are now …
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