N Khan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 49452 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | N Khan |
| NOMBRES | N |
| APELLIDO | Khan |
| FIRMA | KHAN N |
| AFILIACIONES | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1009-6088 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 203 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1969 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Time and movement
Make what price they will
Dreams’ navel
Syeda Farhana, landscaper of perpetual motion
Exquisite corpse
Iqbal Before the Mosque of Cordoba
"Introduction to the Special Section, "The Ordinariness of Cross-Time Relations
This introduction orients the reader to the experiments with thinking inter-disciplinarily in this special section of Anthropology and Humanism. A long history of shared conversation between science fiction and anthropology has both been shadowed by colonialism and offered promising resources for remaking the world. We invited anthropologists, film critics, and literary theorists into conversation without assuming in advance to know what constitu…
Radical Householding towards a Post-Capitalist World in Kin Stanley Robinson's New York 2140 and Lionel Shriver's The Mandibles
Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140 engages in speculative economics to explore how the household as both a site of provisioning and living together and a material asset may get us to a post-capitalist world in which capitalism is harnessed not to short-term profits but with upholding justice and sustainability. In this article, I explore how the novel proposes to bring about a refocusing of priorities within capitalism. Lionel Shriver's The Man…
Marginal Lives and the Microsociology of Overhearing in the Jamuna Chars
In the past decade, Bangladesh has made a shift to becoming an authoritarian state. What happens to everyday speech within the context of state repression and censorship? I take up this question by exploring the nature and fate of 'overhearing' as a mode of speaking, most often prefaced by, 'I heard that,' or 'this is heard speech,' among the underprivileged denizens of the chars in the Jamuna River during the 2014 National Elections. The interes…
The Problem with Children in Politics
Inspired by the forceful emergence of youth activism around climate change in 2019 and the body of scholarship on youth political involvement, we evaluate youths’ claims to being political in the international climate governance process. To do this, we survey documentation of youth activity around the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), so we can gauge the extent of youth participation. We produce analyses of four sets…
River Life and the Upspring of Nature
In River Life and the Upspring of Nature Naveeda Khan examines the relationship between nature and culture through the study of the everyday existence of chauras, the people who live on the chars (sandbars) within the Jamuna River in Bangladesh. Nature is a primary force at play within this existence as chauras live itinerantly and in flux with the ever-changing river flows; where land is here today and gone tomorrow, the quality of life itself i…
Medicine in Name Only
This article is an anthropological examination of the health-seeking behaviours of Rohingya refugees living in crowded camps in Bangladesh, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. One international organisation providing medical care in the Kutupalong camp has found non-cooperation among the residents regarding the health facilities on offer to them. This ethnography highlights the Rohingya refugees' active 'mistrust' (Carey 2017) of these medic…
Kant and Anthropology
Actual, possible, and potential relations between Kant and anthropology in early-21st-century scholarship are worth exploring. Within the realm of actual relations, classical figures within anthropology took up Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and Critique of Practical Reason to understand the nature of thinking and morality within so-called primitive societies. They sought to put society before mind within Kant’s architectonic of thought and to po…
Commentary on land and water special collection
Between the Mood and the Juice
Between the Mood and the Juice:The Pleasures of Conversing with Rochelle Tobias Naveeda Khan (bio) For a decade now, since 2010, I have been mulling over the issue of how we experience climate change as a dimension of the everyday. More particularly, my question has been whether people who live in the midst of tremendous physical dynamism and economic precariousness can discern the signal of climate change? My interlocutors are those who dwell on…
What Remains
Khan comments on the essays that appear in a special section of the Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East titled “The Past for Pakistan.” In particular, she draws out the aspect of the remains that haunt Pakistan into which the essays give us insight
At Play with the Giants
I consider how the ideas of the patchy Anthropocene forwarded by the editors of this special issue provide a way to do anthropology otherwise by reversing the relationship between the background and foreground in our studies. This switch allows me to bring to the fore the Brahmaputra-Jamuna River as both a hydrological entity and a geological event and the interrelations between these two as explored in geological writings. It helps grow the kind…
AAA Goes to the Conference of the Parties
River and the corruption of memory
With a focus on three films about rivers in Bangladesh, Titash Ekti Nodir Naam (A River named Titash), Padma Nodir Majhi (The Fishermen of Padma) and Chitra Nodir Parey (Beside the Chitra River), this article considers how the corruption of a river, that is, the entropy and decay immanent to it, produces the conditions of possibility for the corruption of social relations within the context of riverine lives. These filmic meditations serve as the…
The fate of our corruption
Of What Does Self-Knowing Consist? Perspectives from Bangladesh and Pakistan
Taking my cue from two novels, Mohammad Hanif's A Case of Exploding Mangos and Zia Haider Rahman's In the Light of What We Know, I posit that their respective senses of living in Pakistan or being from Bangladesh capture a shared intuition of not knowing enough to know oneself or one's place in the world. In this review, I ask, Can we speak of an inheritance of the colonial imperative to know when the need is not to know and rule others, but to k…
Faisal Devji. Muslim Zion
Drawing a parallel between the figure of the Muslim and that of the Jew within the scholarship of South Asia is not new, although it retains a certain shock value given widespread antisemitism or, more accurately, sheer ignorance about Jewish people among Muslims in the region (see James T. Siegel, “Kiblat and the Mediatic Jew” in Indonesia 69 [2000]: 9–40). For instance, in Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postc…
Dogs and humans and what earth can be
Climate change is knowledge produced by running empirical data on weather through global simulation models. In contradistinction to the approach that studies how people come to be schooled to perceive climate change or produce their own accounts of change in an indigenous idiom, I show how knowledge of it is met by disbelief by Muslim farmers (chauras) living on eroding and accreting silt and sand islands (chars) within the Jamuna River in Bangla…
The question of the political
Comment on Hull, Matthew. 2012. Government of paper: The materiality of bureaucracy in urban Pakistan. Berkeley: University of California Press
Parchment of Kashmir
Introduction
Of Children and Jinn
Sectarianism in Pakistan, specifically the Shi'i-Sunni conflict, already analytically challenging, has taken on further complexity of late. Within this landscape of ambiguity, I argue that everyday life is a necessary frame for understanding the reach and scope of sectarianism in Pakistan. This article shows how the dynamic of Shi'i-Sunni conflict becomes reprised within divides among Sunnis as a standing archive of stereotypes and slights. At th…
Flaws in the Flow
Research Article| December 01 2006 Flaws in the Flow: ROADS AND THEIR MODERNITY IN PAKISTAN Naveeda Khan Naveeda Khan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2006) 24 (4 (89)): 87–113. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2006-012 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Naveeda Khan; Flaws in the Flow: ROADS AND THEIR MODERNITY IN PAKISTAN. Social Text 1 December 2006; 24 (4 (89)): 87–1…
Dogs and humans and what earth can be
Climate change is knowledge produced by running empirical data on weather through global simulation models. In contradistinction to the approach that studies how people come to be schooled to perceive climate change or produce their own accounts of change in an indigenous idiom, I show how knowledge of it is met by disbelief by Muslim farmers (chauras) living on eroding and accreting silt and sand islands (chars) within the Jamuna River in Bangla…
The Acoustics of Muslim Striving
The protagonist of Intizar Hussain's novelTazkira(1987) is a haplessmuhajir, or refugee, in Lahore, Pakistan in the period shortly after the 1947 Partition of India, which witnessed the pell-mell transfer of Hindus and Sikhs to India and Muslims to Pakistan. He writes that while others were busy seizing abandoned sites in which to live, he was unable to feel at home anywhere. To compound his sense of dislocation,bu amma, his elderly companion, co…
Egyptian-Indian Nationalist Collaboration and the British Empire
An examination of the collaboration between Egyptian and Indian nationalists against the British Empire, this book argues that the basis for Third World or Non-Aligned Movement was formed long before
At Play with the Giants
I consider how the ideas of the patchy Anthropocene forwarded by the editors of this special issue provide a way to do anthropology otherwise by reversing the relationship between the background and foreground in our studies. This switch allows me to bring to the fore the Brahmaputra-Jamuna River as both a hydrological entity and a geological event and the interrelations between these two as explored in geological writings. It helps grow the kind…
The effects of a natural disaster on child behavior
OBJECTIVES. A prospective study of children examined both before and after a flood disaster in Bangladesh is used to test the hypothesis that stressful events play a causal role in the development of behavioral disorders in children. METHODS. Six months before the disaster, structured measures of selected behavioral problems were made during an epidemiological study of disability among 2- to 9-year-old children. Five months after the disaster, a …
River and the corruption of memory
With a focus on three films about rivers in Bangladesh, Titash Ekti Nodir Naam (A River named Titash), Padma Nodir Majhi (The Fishermen of Padma) and Chitra Nodir Parey (Beside the Chitra River), this article considers how the corruption of a river, that is, the entropy and decay immanent to it, produces the conditions of possibility for the corruption of social relations within the context of riverine lives. These filmic meditations serve as the…
River Life and the Upspring of Nature
In River Life and the Upspring of Nature Naveeda Khan examines the relationship between nature and culture through the study of the everyday existence of chauras, the people who live on the chars (sandbars) within the Jamuna River in Bangladesh. Nature is a primary force at play within this existence as chauras live itinerantly and in flux with the ever-changing river flows; where land is here today and gone tomorrow, the quality of life itself i…
"Introduction to the Special Section, "The Ordinariness of Cross-Time Relations
This introduction orients the reader to the experiments with thinking inter-disciplinarily in this special section of Anthropology and Humanism. A long history of shared conversation between science fiction and anthropology has both been shadowed by colonialism and offered promising resources for remaking the world. We invited anthropologists, film critics, and literary theorists into conversation without assuming in advance to know what constitu…
Living Paradox in Riverine Bangladesh
We begin with the words of rural and riverine women from Bangladesh recalling the events of their children's deaths by drowning. These events are cast as the work of supernatural beings, specifically Ganga Devi and Khwaja Khijir, who compel the mothers into forgetfulness and entice the children to the water. Is this a disavowal of loss and responsibility? This article considers that the women, specifically those from northern Bangladesh, assert n…
Marginal Lives and the Microsociology of Overhearing in the Jamuna Chars
In the past decade, Bangladesh has made a shift to becoming an authoritarian state. What happens to everyday speech within the context of state repression and censorship? I take up this question by exploring the nature and fate of 'overhearing' as a mode of speaking, most often prefaced by, 'I heard that,' or 'this is heard speech,' among the underprivileged denizens of the chars in the Jamuna River during the 2014 National Elections. The interes…
The fate of our corruption
Geddes in India
In this paper I focus on the ideas and efforts of Patrick Geddes, which are well known but not often discussed, by which he attempted to elevate the status of Indian sweepers and sewage collectors into gardeners by transforming sewage into fertilizer for gardens. Geddes transmitted his vision by means of religious performances, and through these efforts he attempted to produce change in Indian society in the register of human evolution. In this p…
Radical Householding towards a Post-Capitalist World in Kin Stanley Robinson's New York 2140 and Lionel Shriver's The Mandibles
Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140 engages in speculative economics to explore how the household as both a site of provisioning and living together and a material asset may get us to a post-capitalist world in which capitalism is harnessed not to short-term profits but with upholding justice and sustainability. In this article, I explore how the novel proposes to bring about a refocusing of priorities within capitalism. Lionel Shriver's The Man…
Between the Mood and the Juice
Between the Mood and the Juice:The Pleasures of Conversing with Rochelle Tobias Naveeda Khan (bio) For a decade now, since 2010, I have been mulling over the issue of how we experience climate change as a dimension of the everyday. More particularly, my question has been whether people who live in the midst of tremendous physical dynamism and economic precariousness can discern the signal of climate change? My interlocutors are those who dwell on…
Of What Does Self-Knowing Consist? Perspectives from Bangladesh and Pakistan
Taking my cue from two novels, Mohammad Hanif's A Case of Exploding Mangos and Zia Haider Rahman's In the Light of What We Know, I posit that their respective senses of living in Pakistan or being from Bangladesh capture a shared intuition of not knowing enough to know oneself or one's place in the world. In this review, I ask, Can we speak of an inheritance of the colonial imperative to know when the need is not to know and rule others, but to k…
The question of the political
Comment on Hull, Matthew. 2012. Government of paper: The materiality of bureaucracy in urban Pakistan. Berkeley: University of California Press
Living Paradox in Riverine Bangladesh
We begin with the words of rural and riverine women from Bangladesh recalling the events of their children's deaths by drowning. These events are cast as the work of supernatural beings, specifically Ganga Devi and Khwaja Khijir, who compel the mothers into forgetfulness and entice the children to the water. Is this a disavowal of loss and responsibility? This article considers that the women, specifically those from northern Bangladesh, assert n…
The effects of a natural disaster on child behavior
OBJECTIVES. A prospective study of children examined both before and after a flood disaster in Bangladesh is used to test the hypothesis that stressful events play a causal role in the development of behavioral disorders in children. METHODS. Six months before the disaster, structured measures of selected behavioral problems were made during an epidemiological study of disability among 2- to 9-year-old children. Five months after the disaster, a …
Inserting 'Culture' Into Multiculturalism
Le colloque Forum Nuveen tenu en juillet 1995 au musee de Chicago (Field Museum of Chicago) avait pour objectif la rencontre entre les anthropologues et le grand public sur le theme du pluralisme culturel. Les anthropologues etaient confrontes a des educateurs, des policiers, des leaders des droits civiques, des journalistes et des participants libres. Il s'agissait de traduire des concepts complexes de l'anthropologie et des idees afin de montre…
Networks Actual and Potential
Networks Actual and Potential: Think Tanks, War Games and the Creation of Contemporary American Politics Richard Baxstrom (bio), Naveeda Khan (bio), Deborah Poole (bio), and Bhrigupati Singh (bio) The months leading up to the U.S. incursion into Iraq in 2003 witnessed one of the largest protest movements in world history, unprecedented in its international scope, with rallies being held simultaneously in over forty countries across four continent…
Flaws in the Flow
Research Article| December 01 2006 Flaws in the Flow: ROADS AND THEIR MODERNITY IN PAKISTAN Naveeda Khan Naveeda Khan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2006) 24 (4 (89)): 87–113. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2006-012 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Naveeda Khan; Flaws in the Flow: ROADS AND THEIR MODERNITY IN PAKISTAN. Social Text 1 December 2006; 24 (4 (89)): 87–1…
Of Children and Jinn
Sectarianism in Pakistan, specifically the Shi'i-Sunni conflict, already analytically challenging, has taken on further complexity of late. Within this landscape of ambiguity, I argue that everyday life is a necessary frame for understanding the reach and scope of sectarianism in Pakistan. This article shows how the dynamic of Shi'i-Sunni conflict becomes reprised within divides among Sunnis as a standing archive of stereotypes and slights. At th…
Introduction
Nineteen
In this article I present the story of Dr Rashad Khalifa, a US-based Egyptian scientist who claimed to have scientifically shown how the text of the Quran was the immutable speech of God. He did this by means of computer-based calculations that showed how the number 19 was embedded in the formal structure of the Quran, thereby indicating a superhuman level of coding. I locate such efforts at the conjuncture of the long history of textual polemics…
Egyptian-Indian Nationalist Collaboration and the British Empire
An examination of the collaboration between Egyptian and Indian nationalists against the British Empire, this book argues that the basis for Third World or Non-Aligned Movement was formed long before
Geddes in India
In this paper I focus on the ideas and efforts of Patrick Geddes, which are well known but not often discussed, by which he attempted to elevate the status of Indian sweepers and sewage collectors into gardeners by transforming sewage into fertilizer for gardens. Geddes transmitted his vision by means of religious performances, and through these efforts he attempted to produce change in Indian society in the register of human evolution. In this p…
The Acoustics of Muslim Striving
The protagonist of Intizar Hussain's novelTazkira(1987) is a haplessmuhajir, or refugee, in Lahore, Pakistan in the period shortly after the 1947 Partition of India, which witnessed the pell-mell transfer of Hindus and Sikhs to India and Muslims to Pakistan. He writes that while others were busy seizing abandoned sites in which to live, he was unable to feel at home anywhere. To compound his sense of dislocation,bu amma, his elderly companion, co…
Parchment of Kashmir
Muslim Becoming
Speaking Like a State
The question of the political
Comment on Hull, Matthew. 2012. Government of paper: The materiality of bureaucracy in urban Pakistan. Berkeley: University of California Press
Faisal Devji. Muslim Zion
Drawing a parallel between the figure of the Muslim and that of the Jew within the scholarship of South Asia is not new, although it retains a certain shock value given widespread antisemitism or, more accurately, sheer ignorance about Jewish people among Muslims in the region (see James T. Siegel, “Kiblat and the Mediatic Jew” in Indonesia 69 [2000]: 9–40). For instance, in Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postc…
Dogs and humans and what earth can be
Climate change is knowledge produced by running empirical data on weather through global simulation models. In contradistinction to the approach that studies how people come to be schooled to perceive climate change or produce their own accounts of change in an indigenous idiom, I show how knowledge of it is met by disbelief by Muslim farmers (chauras) living on eroding and accreting silt and sand islands (chars) within the Jamuna River in Bangla…
River and the corruption of memory
With a focus on three films about rivers in Bangladesh, Titash Ekti Nodir Naam (A River named Titash), Padma Nodir Majhi (The Fishermen of Padma) and Chitra Nodir Parey (Beside the Chitra River), this article considers how the corruption of a river, that is, the entropy and decay immanent to it, produces the conditions of possibility for the corruption of social relations within the context of riverine lives. These filmic meditations serve as the…
The fate of our corruption
Of What Does Self-Knowing Consist? Perspectives from Bangladesh and Pakistan
Taking my cue from two novels, Mohammad Hanif's A Case of Exploding Mangos and Zia Haider Rahman's In the Light of What We Know, I posit that their respective senses of living in Pakistan or being from Bangladesh capture a shared intuition of not knowing enough to know oneself or one's place in the world. In this review, I ask, Can we speak of an inheritance of the colonial imperative to know when the need is not to know and rule others, but to k…
AAA Goes to the Conference of the Parties
What Remains
Khan comments on the essays that appear in a special section of the Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East titled “The Past for Pakistan.” In particular, she draws out the aspect of the remains that haunt Pakistan into which the essays give us insight
At Play with the Giants
I consider how the ideas of the patchy Anthropocene forwarded by the editors of this special issue provide a way to do anthropology otherwise by reversing the relationship between the background and foreground in our studies. This switch allows me to bring to the fore the Brahmaputra-Jamuna River as both a hydrological entity and a geological event and the interrelations between these two as explored in geological writings. It helps grow the kind…
Kant and Anthropology
Actual, possible, and potential relations between Kant and anthropology in early-21st-century scholarship are worth exploring. Within the realm of actual relations, classical figures within anthropology took up Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and Critique of Practical Reason to understand the nature of thinking and morality within so-called primitive societies. They sought to put society before mind within Kant’s architectonic of thought and to po…
Commentary on land and water special collection
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