Ayesha Khurshid
Biographic Data
| ID | 107307 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ayesha Khurshid |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ayesha |
| FAMILY NAME | Khurshid |
| SIGNATURE | KHURSHID A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1598-1097 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Framing borders and belonging in the digital space: Reflections for and from the Comparative and International Education Field
Regulations, Openness, and Competition: Drivers of Green Innovation in China's Manufacturing Industries
This research examines how environmental regulations influence green innovation among manufacturing firms in China, with special focus on the mediating effect of market openness and the moderating influence of market competition. Research constructs a dual‐mechanism concept according to which environmental regulations directly and indirectly affect green innovation by increasing market openness, and the strength of the indirect channel depends on…
Resilience, Dynamic Capabilities, and ESG: The Strategic Connection
The world is becoming increasingly volatile and requires sustainable solutions that can leverage internal strengths to achieve strong ESG performance. In this regard, the current work investigates the mediating role of dynamic capabilities (DCs) in the relationship between organizational resilience (OR) and ESG performance. For this purpose, firm‐level panel data from 7570 Chinese enterprises are utilized in the present work. This study develops …
How Do Supply Chain Digitalization, Media Attention, and Innovativeness Affect Corporate ESG Performance? A Novel Empirical Approach
Supply chain digitalization (SCD), driven by innovation, can enhance ESG performance by fostering openness, sustainability, and operational effectiveness across all aspects of operations. So the present study examines how SCD, media attention, and innovation capabilities affect business ESG performance. The study used a difference‐in‐differences (DiD) model to analyze data from 2009 to 2021 for 4377 A‐share‐listed companies in China. The study's …
Digitalization, E‐Governance, and Environmental Policy: Enhancing Sustainable Tourism and the SDGs in Europe
This study examines how e‐governance (EGOV) and digitalization (DIG), and their combined impacts, affect sustainable tourism performance (TOUR) and the SDGs in Europe. It also explores the roles of environmental policies (EPY), renewable energy use (RENG), innovation (INV), temperature changes (TEM, as a proxy for climate variability), and GHG in achieving the SDGs. The empirical analysis covered the period from 2003 to 2022. The current work emp…
Cies Provocations Forum
(Un)belonging to land: Relationality with land for Muslim women teachers in a rural Pakistani community
Innovation and Interaction Dynamics for Sustainability: A Lotka–Volterra Perspective on Global Industrial Resilience
This study examines the impact of industrial topology on resilience across 33 industries in 58 developed countries from 1995 to 2022 using the Lotka–Volterra framework. It demonstrates that innovation and industrial interaction strength significantly enhance global industrial efficiency, with Japan and China showing 15%–20% higher resilience during crises, and interaction strength boosts efficiency by approximately 12% across global networks. Whi…
Do geopolitical risks induce a butterfly effect on cybersecurity
Cyberspace war is a new domain that complements conventional warfare as a means of dominating opponents in resource management and international relations. The geopolitical rivalry has extended into cyberspace, with states engaging in cyberattacks to influence international relations. Consequently, countries have increasingly viewed cybersecurity as an arms race, developing cyber capabilities. This study examines the relationship between geopolit…
Is Partisan Conflict a Barrier to Environmental Policy
This paper employs full and subsample rolling‐window tests to investigate the impact of partisan conflicts (PCs) on environmental policy (EP) in the United States. The findings reveal a time‐varying relationship between PC and EP, with negative influences from PC on EP, suggesting that partisanship can hinder the advancement of EP. However, the negative impacts of EP on PC demonstrate that PC can be used to anticipate political situations. The su…
Pursuing Sustainable Development Goals: An Analysis of the Relationship Between Energy Poverty and Human Development
This paper examines the dynamic relationship among energy poverty (ENP), human development (HD) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in China over the period 2001–2023 using wavelet analysis. Wavelet analysis is superior to traditional methods for detecting relationships in time and frequency domains, effectively handles non‐stationary series, and requires no pre‐testing for stationarity and lag determination. The findings show a relation…
The Dynamics of Industrial Resilience for Long‐Term Sustainability: Impacts of Economic Disruptions, Energy Efficiency, and Network Interactions
Resilience is the capacity to adapt and thrive in uncertainty and risk, essential for long‐term sustainability. Energy efficiency and industrial connectedness, among other policies, significantly enhance resilience by reducing dependence on traditional energy sources, mitigating supply disruptions, and minimizing price volatility. This study examines the relationship in the global context. Similarly, considers the cases of five key economies, Chi…
Collaboration as relationality: Being relational in research with an Indigenous Maya Muslim community in Mexico
Connecting with land: Knowledge production and transfer in a Maya Tzotzil Muslim community in Chiapas, Mexico
Using oral histories of three generations of a Tzotzil Maya Muslim family in Chiapas, Mexico, this paper examines how these members navigate and make meaning of their different identities as their traditional knowledge systems have been disrupted by land dispossession and displacement. This storied process illustrates the knowledge production and transferal processes while underscoring the critical relationship with the land that intertwines with…
Transforming industry: Investigating 4.0 technologies for sustainable product evolution in china through a novel fuzzy three-way decision-making process
This study aims to contribute to expanding international academic interest in enhancing the business, ecological, and social aspects of Industry 4.0. Specifically, the objectives of this study are twofold: (1) to assess the suitability of Industry 4.0 technologies for the triple bottom lines at the product level, and (2) to evaluate these technologies based on product sustainability criteria. Therefore, this study develops a novel Fuzzy Ortho-tri…
Beyond borders: Assessing the transboundary effects of environmental regulation on technological development in Europe
Is Sustainable Innovation an Impetus to Sustainable Development Goals? Evidence From the EU
Innovations in environmental technology are essential to address sustainability challenges. This study examines the sustainable development goals (SDGs) relationship with environmental technological innovation (ETI) in EU countries during 2000–2022, using a panel bootstrap causality approach. The result indicates bidirectional causality between SDGs and ETI. Furthermore, the findings indicate that SDGs have a causal impact on ETI in Belgium, Denm…
Does renewable energy development enhance energy security
The Empirical Analysis of Environmental Regulation’s Spatial Spillover Effects on Green Technology Innovation in China
Green technology innovation is one of the driving forces of industrial structure upgrading. This innovation is thought to be related to environmental regulation. The study uses panel data for 30 Chinese provinces and cities from 2009 to 2020 and presents a comprehensive research-based explanation of how environmental regulations impact green innovation. This study employs the spatial Durbin model to analyze the spillover effect of the region. The…
Green innovation and carbon emissions: The role of carbon pricing and environmental policies in attaining sustainable development targets of carbon mitigation—evidence from Central-Eastern Europe
How network structure and exchange rate volatility drive the industrial ecosystem towards collapse: A global perspective
This study investigates the impact of topological structure and exchange rate volatility on the collapse of industrial ecosystems. To answer this question, we developed a multidimensional nonlinear dynamic model that captures the dynamics of industrial ecosystem structures. Furthermore, the formulated complex model is reduced to a 1 D model system without lowering its ability to predict the tipping point (total collapse point). Using 1995–2015 in…
Industrial structure conditions economic resilience
Are technology innovation and circular economy remedy for emissions? Evidence from the Netherlands
Assessment of Nutritional Status of the Farm Families With Special Focus on Primary School Children in Pakistan
Purpose of the study: The main purpose of this study was to assess the nutritional status of farm families with a special focus on primary school children in Punjab. Methodology: This study was conducted in tehsil Jaranwala, Faisalabad. Five villages and two primary schools were selected from each village randomly. From these schools, 323 children whose fathers were farmers were selected as samples. A cross-sectional research design was used for …
Muslim womanhood, education, and empowerment: Ethnographic reflections from Pakistan and India
In contemporary times, the status of Muslim women has become a lens to approach and engage with Muslim societies. Embedded in these narratives is an image of Muslim women as oppressed victims of their patriarchal families and societies. In this article, we focus on the lived experiences of educated Muslim women from Pakistan and India to examine what empowerment means for them. We are particularly interested in examining how these participants, b…
Islamic Traditions of Modernity: Gender, Class, and Islam in a Transnational Women’s Education Project
Women's education has been central to discourses that have sought to modernize developing and Muslim societies. Based on ethnographic data collected from women teachers from rural and low-income communities of Pakistan, the article shows how being a parhi likhi (educated) woman implies acquiring a privileged subject position making claims to middle-class and Islamic morality, and engaging in specific struggles within, rather than against, the ins…
Microaggressions in graduate students’ lives: How they are encountered and their consequences
Muslim womanhood, education, and empowerment: Ethnographic reflections from Pakistan and India
In contemporary times, the status of Muslim women has become a lens to approach and engage with Muslim societies. Embedded in these narratives is an image of Muslim women as oppressed victims of their patriarchal families and societies. In this article, we focus on the lived experiences of educated Muslim women from Pakistan and India to examine what empowerment means for them. We are particularly interested in examining how these participants, b…
Is Sustainable Innovation an Impetus to Sustainable Development Goals? Evidence From the EU
Innovations in environmental technology are essential to address sustainability challenges. This study examines the sustainable development goals (SDGs) relationship with environmental technological innovation (ETI) in EU countries during 2000–2022, using a panel bootstrap causality approach. The result indicates bidirectional causality between SDGs and ETI. Furthermore, the findings indicate that SDGs have a causal impact on ETI in Belgium, Denm…
The Dynamics of Industrial Resilience for Long‐Term Sustainability: Impacts of Economic Disruptions, Energy Efficiency, and Network Interactions
Resilience is the capacity to adapt and thrive in uncertainty and risk, essential for long‐term sustainability. Energy efficiency and industrial connectedness, among other policies, significantly enhance resilience by reducing dependence on traditional energy sources, mitigating supply disruptions, and minimizing price volatility. This study examines the relationship in the global context. Similarly, considers the cases of five key economies, Chi…
Domesticated gender (in) equality: Women’s education & gender relations among rural communities in Pakistan
Does renewable energy development enhance energy security
Does Education Empower Women? The Regulated Empowerment ofParhi LikhiWomen in Pakistan: Does Education Empower Women
Through employing ethnographic data collected with female teachers from rural and low-income communities in Pakistan, this paper examines how parhi likhi (educated) women's access to valuable opportunities in public domains is contingent upon them becoming subject to new regulations, especially regarding their sexuality. This gendered process of regulated empowerment challenges the discourse of women's education as universally empowering and high…
Love marriage or arranged marriage? Choice, rights, and empowerment for educated Muslim women from rural and low-income Pakistani communities
Using ethnographic data collected with Muslim women teachers from rural and low-income communities in Pakistan, this article shows how empowerment for these educated women meant access to different forms of power within families and communities. The focus on the issue of choice in marriage reveals how the participants conceptualised empowerment as practice of rights that entailed right choices; choices that produced positive long-term benefits in…
A Transnational Community of Pakistani Muslim Women: Narratives of Rights, Honor, and Wisdom in a Women's Education Project
Using ethnographic data, this article explores how Muslim women teachers from low-income Pakistani communities employ the notion of "wisdom" to construct and perform their educated subjectivity in a transnational women's education project. Through Butler's performativity framework, I demonstrate how local and global discourses overlap to shape narratives that define individual rights as well as family honor as part of the educated subjectivity of…
Malala: The story of a Muslim girl and a Muslim nation
In this article, we analyze the coverage of Malala in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal to explore how these influential media sources characterize Islam and Pakistan to tell Malala’s story. Our discourse analysis reveals how these newspapers construct Malala’s status as a global icon as an embodiment of her subject position as a girl. This media discourse mobilizes Malala’s agency in relation to her potential as an individual wherea…
Writing against culture: Unveiling education and modernity for Hindu Indian and Muslim Pakistani women through an ‘ethnography of the particular’
In this article, we analyze our experiences engaging in a collaborative ethnographic project. This project brings together two ethnographic studies undertaken independently from the other in Gujarat, India and Punjab, Pakistan. We integrate the narratives of young, rural Hindu women in India with those of young, rural Muslim women in Pakistan to depict globalization as a simultaneously interconnected and disjointed project. Our effort is to disru…
Pursuing Sustainable Development Goals: An Analysis of the Relationship Between Energy Poverty and Human Development
This paper examines the dynamic relationship among energy poverty (ENP), human development (HD) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in China over the period 2001–2023 using wavelet analysis. Wavelet analysis is superior to traditional methods for detecting relationships in time and frequency domains, effectively handles non‐stationary series, and requires no pre‐testing for stationarity and lag determination. The findings show a relation…
Connecting with land: Knowledge production and transfer in a Maya Tzotzil Muslim community in Chiapas, Mexico
Using oral histories of three generations of a Tzotzil Maya Muslim family in Chiapas, Mexico, this paper examines how these members navigate and make meaning of their different identities as their traditional knowledge systems have been disrupted by land dispossession and displacement. This storied process illustrates the knowledge production and transferal processes while underscoring the critical relationship with the land that intertwines with…
Contested womanhood: Women's education and (re)production of gendered norms in rural Pakistani Muslim communities
In a world marred by the fears of religious extremism, Muslim women have become subjects of various global projects that aim to modernize ‘traditional’ Muslim societies through women’s education and empowerment. Embedded in these discourses is an assumption that all educated Muslim women will empower themselves through challenging the ‘oppressive’ structures of their families and communities. This paper challenges these homogeneous narratives of …
Claiming modernity through clothing: Gender and education in Pakistani Muslim and Indian Hindu communities
Through focusing on forms of clothing, this article reveals how educated women from marginalized communities in Pakistan and India made differential claims to being modern. Our analysis of two ethnographic studies shows how the participants mobilized their subjectivities as modern and educated women through a distinction between ‘local modern’ and ‘local traditional’. In this article, our goal is not to define modernity, but instead to illuminate…
Microaggressions in graduate students’ lives: How they are encountered and their consequences
A Transnational Community of Pakistani Muslim Women: Narratives of Rights, Honor, and Wisdom in a Women's Education Project
Using ethnographic data, this article explores how Muslim women teachers from low-income Pakistani communities employ the notion of "wisdom" to construct and perform their educated subjectivity in a transnational women's education project. Through Butler's performativity framework, I demonstrate how local and global discourses overlap to shape narratives that define individual rights as well as family honor as part of the educated subjectivity of…
Interest rate uncertainty, Investment and their relationship on different industries; Evidence from Jiangsu, China
The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of real interest rate on investment level on different industries of Jiangsu, China over the period of 10 years from 2003 to 2012.The effect of interest rate on investment in different industries is tested by using static and dynamic panel-data model.The empirical evidences indicated that interest rate and investment are positively correlated.However, interest rate uncertainty has small impact on…
The effect of interest rate on investment; Empirical evidence of Jiangsu Province, China
Th e main reason of this study is to test the interest rate impact on investment in Jiangsu Province of China. Jiangsu has the largest quantity of investment in China. For long run, nexus Johansen Co-integration test is employed. Whereas, vector error correction model (VECM) is used to fi nd short run association over the period of 2003-2012. Th e results indicate that there is a long-term relationship association among variables. It has negative…
Islamic Traditions of Modernity: Gender, Class, and Islam in a Transnational Women’s Education Project
Women's education has been central to discourses that have sought to modernize developing and Muslim societies. Based on ethnographic data collected from women teachers from rural and low-income communities of Pakistan, the article shows how being a parhi likhi (educated) woman implies acquiring a privileged subject position making claims to middle-class and Islamic morality, and engaging in specific struggles within, rather than against, the ins…
Domesticated gender (in) equality: Women’s education & gender relations among rural communities in Pakistan
Writing against culture: Unveiling education and modernity for Hindu Indian and Muslim Pakistani women through an ‘ethnography of the particular’
In this article, we analyze our experiences engaging in a collaborative ethnographic project. This project brings together two ethnographic studies undertaken independently from the other in Gujarat, India and Punjab, Pakistan. We integrate the narratives of young, rural Hindu women in India with those of young, rural Muslim women in Pakistan to depict globalization as a simultaneously interconnected and disjointed project. Our effort is to disru…
Claiming modernity through clothing: Gender and education in Pakistani Muslim and Indian Hindu communities
Through focusing on forms of clothing, this article reveals how educated women from marginalized communities in Pakistan and India made differential claims to being modern. Our analysis of two ethnographic studies shows how the participants mobilized their subjectivities as modern and educated women through a distinction between ‘local modern’ and ‘local traditional’. In this article, our goal is not to define modernity, but instead to illuminate…
Does Education Empower Women? The Regulated Empowerment ofParhi LikhiWomen in Pakistan: Does Education Empower Women
Through employing ethnographic data collected with female teachers from rural and low-income communities in Pakistan, this paper examines how parhi likhi (educated) women's access to valuable opportunities in public domains is contingent upon them becoming subject to new regulations, especially regarding their sexuality. This gendered process of regulated empowerment challenges the discourse of women's education as universally empowering and high…
Love marriage or arranged marriage? Choice, rights, and empowerment for educated Muslim women from rural and low-income Pakistani communities
Using ethnographic data collected with Muslim women teachers from rural and low-income communities in Pakistan, this article shows how empowerment for these educated women meant access to different forms of power within families and communities. The focus on the issue of choice in marriage reveals how the participants conceptualised empowerment as practice of rights that entailed right choices; choices that produced positive long-term benefits in…
Contested womanhood: Women's education and (re)production of gendered norms in rural Pakistani Muslim communities
In a world marred by the fears of religious extremism, Muslim women have become subjects of various global projects that aim to modernize ‘traditional’ Muslim societies through women’s education and empowerment. Embedded in these discourses is an assumption that all educated Muslim women will empower themselves through challenging the ‘oppressive’ structures of their families and communities. This paper challenges these homogeneous narratives of …
Muslim womanhood, education, and empowerment: Ethnographic reflections from Pakistan and India
In contemporary times, the status of Muslim women has become a lens to approach and engage with Muslim societies. Embedded in these narratives is an image of Muslim women as oppressed victims of their patriarchal families and societies. In this article, we focus on the lived experiences of educated Muslim women from Pakistan and India to examine what empowerment means for them. We are particularly interested in examining how these participants, b…
Malala: The story of a Muslim girl and a Muslim nation
In this article, we analyze the coverage of Malala in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal to explore how these influential media sources characterize Islam and Pakistan to tell Malala’s story. Our discourse analysis reveals how these newspapers construct Malala’s status as a global icon as an embodiment of her subject position as a girl. This media discourse mobilizes Malala’s agency in relation to her potential as an individual wherea…
Assessment of Nutritional Status of the Farm Families With Special Focus on Primary School Children in Pakistan
Purpose of the study: The main purpose of this study was to assess the nutritional status of farm families with a special focus on primary school children in Punjab. Methodology: This study was conducted in tehsil Jaranwala, Faisalabad. Five villages and two primary schools were selected from each village randomly. From these schools, 323 children whose fathers were farmers were selected as samples. A cross-sectional research design was used for …
Industrial structure conditions economic resilience
Are technology innovation and circular economy remedy for emissions? Evidence from the Netherlands
The Empirical Analysis of Environmental Regulation’s Spatial Spillover Effects on Green Technology Innovation in China
Green technology innovation is one of the driving forces of industrial structure upgrading. This innovation is thought to be related to environmental regulation. The study uses panel data for 30 Chinese provinces and cities from 2009 to 2020 and presents a comprehensive research-based explanation of how environmental regulations impact green innovation. This study employs the spatial Durbin model to analyze the spillover effect of the region. The…
Green innovation and carbon emissions: The role of carbon pricing and environmental policies in attaining sustainable development targets of carbon mitigation—evidence from Central-Eastern Europe
How network structure and exchange rate volatility drive the industrial ecosystem towards collapse: A global perspective
This study investigates the impact of topological structure and exchange rate volatility on the collapse of industrial ecosystems. To answer this question, we developed a multidimensional nonlinear dynamic model that captures the dynamics of industrial ecosystem structures. Furthermore, the formulated complex model is reduced to a 1 D model system without lowering its ability to predict the tipping point (total collapse point). Using 1995–2015 in…
Transforming industry: Investigating 4.0 technologies for sustainable product evolution in china through a novel fuzzy three-way decision-making process
This study aims to contribute to expanding international academic interest in enhancing the business, ecological, and social aspects of Industry 4.0. Specifically, the objectives of this study are twofold: (1) to assess the suitability of Industry 4.0 technologies for the triple bottom lines at the product level, and (2) to evaluate these technologies based on product sustainability criteria. Therefore, this study develops a novel Fuzzy Ortho-tri…
Beyond borders: Assessing the transboundary effects of environmental regulation on technological development in Europe
Is Sustainable Innovation an Impetus to Sustainable Development Goals? Evidence From the EU
Innovations in environmental technology are essential to address sustainability challenges. This study examines the sustainable development goals (SDGs) relationship with environmental technological innovation (ETI) in EU countries during 2000–2022, using a panel bootstrap causality approach. The result indicates bidirectional causality between SDGs and ETI. Furthermore, the findings indicate that SDGs have a causal impact on ETI in Belgium, Denm…
Does renewable energy development enhance energy security
Do geopolitical risks induce a butterfly effect on cybersecurity
Cyberspace war is a new domain that complements conventional warfare as a means of dominating opponents in resource management and international relations. The geopolitical rivalry has extended into cyberspace, with states engaging in cyberattacks to influence international relations. Consequently, countries have increasingly viewed cybersecurity as an arms race, developing cyber capabilities. This study examines the relationship between geopolit…
Is Partisan Conflict a Barrier to Environmental Policy
This paper employs full and subsample rolling‐window tests to investigate the impact of partisan conflicts (PCs) on environmental policy (EP) in the United States. The findings reveal a time‐varying relationship between PC and EP, with negative influences from PC on EP, suggesting that partisanship can hinder the advancement of EP. However, the negative impacts of EP on PC demonstrate that PC can be used to anticipate political situations. The su…
Political science (16 works) · Economics (15 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Business (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Ethnography (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (8 works) · Sustainable development (8 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (7 works)