Efadul Huq
Biographic Data
| ID | 1261492 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Efadul Huq |
| GIVEN NAMES | Efadul |
| FAMILY NAME | Huq |
| SIGNATURE | HUQ E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Smith College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5235-4896 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Weaving pluriversal entanglements for urban wetland regeneration
This article advances pluriversal entanglements, a conceptual framework that reimagines urban wetland regeneration through a heterogeneous approach grounded in dweller-led epistemologies and praxis, building on insights from an actually existing restoration initiative. Responding to the escalating degradation of urban wetlands amid climate change and exclusionary development, pluriversal entanglements critiques dominant technocratic governance pa…
Urbanizing social reproduction
Feminist social reproduction scholarship has shown how reproductive labor is critical in understanding the evolving dynamics of global capitalism. However, more work is needed to explicate the spatial dimension of this relationship to understand the various modalities through which social reproduction is enrolled in capitalist city-making processes and how these modalities are contested. Drawing on observations from multiple sites ranging from ci…
The destructive work of restoration
Urban river restoration efforts are growing worldwide. Along with restoring and conserving rivers, riverside land is slated for public recreation, property development, and infrastructure for adaptation to climate change. Riverine landscapes, embedded in larger watershed ecosystems and claimed by multiple communities, are sites of contested planning in contemporary cities. In this paper, we advance the scholarship on contestation over control and…
Green Informalities as Socially Just Ecological Infrastructure
Ecological infrastructure and urban agriculture are enacting a green resurgence in cities. In the global South, however, ecological infrastructure is often premised on erasing already existing informal agricultural practices (green informalities) and leads to the displacement of marginalized urban dwellers. How, then, can ecological infrastructure be calibrated with the specific realities of the global South's green informalities? What other soci…
Between Queer Joy and Injury
This article expands the notion of queer domesticity from the vantage point of the global South. Drawing on autoethnography, ephemeral archives, and secondary sources, the authors examine Nanur Basha, the residence of a Bangladeshi queer activist and community mentor, which in 2016 was the site of two murders committed by a local chapter of Al-Qaeda. By empirically interrogating the events leading up to the unmaking of Nanur Basha, the authors ar…
People move, policies don’t
In Bangladesh, internal climate displacement will continue pushing millions to the urbanizing centres where migrants make homes in informal settlements. These settlements, too, are sites for climate hazards such as heat stress and flooding, affecting climate-displaced and economic migrants alike. The demands of growing migrant populations and long-term informal settlement dwellers converge around rights to secure land and housing, acknowledged in…
The Joy of Many Stories
In this article, we reflect on our experiences of teaching urban planning courses that through storytelling center on issues of globalization, urbanization, planning, and social and spatial inequalities. We contemplate using zine-making and multimedia story-mapping to overcome impediments instructors usually face in engaging diverse students in appreciating the complexities of social justice on global and local scales. In light of critical femini…
Beyond a liberal reading of insurgent in transformative planning practices
As I begin this response, I am drawn to a recently published article by Vasudevan and Novoa (2021) where the authors name as "pluriversal planning scholarship" a constellation of creative methodologies and theoretical insights rooted in "southern" or "south/eastern" realities.Pluriversal planning scholarship centers the needs and voices of subordinate communities, challenges the hegemony of Western thought, embraces epistemic multiplicity in plan…
“We are All Refugees”
This paper is in conversation with two important bodies of literature: one on informal settlements (informal and insurgent grassroots practices) and another on camps (spatial practices and governance of refugees). Reading inhabitants’ experiences in Korail, an informal settlement in Dhaka, Bangladesh, through the literature grounded in the experiences of refugees, we seek to contribute to the relational theorization of informal settlements and ca…
Seeing the insurgent in transformative planning practices
Insurgent planning and radical planning are two of the most popular conceptual frames of reference for progressive planners and theorists of transformative planning practices. In the past decades, scholars have extended these two planning conceptions to new geographies and realities to shed light on how planning can challenge structural injustices and marginalization. However, less attention has been given to how insurgent planning renovates radi…
Making Homes Unhomely
Scholars have long debated the causes, processes, and effects of displacement by gentrification in global north cities and more recently around the world. Based on an ethnographic study in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood, this article shows how limited liability corporations use discrete and accretive violence in the early stages of gentrification. We also document how tenants contest harassment and neglect by carrying out “limit–acts” to make…
Seeing the insurgent in transformative planning practices
Insurgent planning and radical planning are two of the most popular conceptual frames of reference for progressive planners and theorists of transformative planning practices. In the past decades, scholars have extended these two planning conceptions to new geographies and realities to shed light on how planning can challenge structural injustices and marginalization. However, less attention has been given to how insurgent planning renovates radi…
Making Homes Unhomely
Scholars have long debated the causes, processes, and effects of displacement by gentrification in global north cities and more recently around the world. Based on an ethnographic study in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood, this article shows how limited liability corporations use discrete and accretive violence in the early stages of gentrification. We also document how tenants contest harassment and neglect by carrying out “limit–acts” to make…
Urbanizing social reproduction
Feminist social reproduction scholarship has shown how reproductive labor is critical in understanding the evolving dynamics of global capitalism. However, more work is needed to explicate the spatial dimension of this relationship to understand the various modalities through which social reproduction is enrolled in capitalist city-making processes and how these modalities are contested. Drawing on observations from multiple sites ranging from ci…
People move, policies don’t
In Bangladesh, internal climate displacement will continue pushing millions to the urbanizing centres where migrants make homes in informal settlements. These settlements, too, are sites for climate hazards such as heat stress and flooding, affecting climate-displaced and economic migrants alike. The demands of growing migrant populations and long-term informal settlement dwellers converge around rights to secure land and housing, acknowledged in…
Between Queer Joy and Injury
This article expands the notion of queer domesticity from the vantage point of the global South. Drawing on autoethnography, ephemeral archives, and secondary sources, the authors examine Nanur Basha, the residence of a Bangladeshi queer activist and community mentor, which in 2016 was the site of two murders committed by a local chapter of Al-Qaeda. By empirically interrogating the events leading up to the unmaking of Nanur Basha, the authors ar…
Green Informalities as Socially Just Ecological Infrastructure
Ecological infrastructure and urban agriculture are enacting a green resurgence in cities. In the global South, however, ecological infrastructure is often premised on erasing already existing informal agricultural practices (green informalities) and leads to the displacement of marginalized urban dwellers. How, then, can ecological infrastructure be calibrated with the specific realities of the global South's green informalities? What other soci…
Beyond a liberal reading of insurgent in transformative planning practices
As I begin this response, I am drawn to a recently published article by Vasudevan and Novoa (2021) where the authors name as "pluriversal planning scholarship" a constellation of creative methodologies and theoretical insights rooted in "southern" or "south/eastern" realities.Pluriversal planning scholarship centers the needs and voices of subordinate communities, challenges the hegemony of Western thought, embraces epistemic multiplicity in plan…
Making Homes Unhomely
Scholars have long debated the causes, processes, and effects of displacement by gentrification in global north cities and more recently around the world. Based on an ethnographic study in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood, this article shows how limited liability corporations use discrete and accretive violence in the early stages of gentrification. We also document how tenants contest harassment and neglect by carrying out “limit–acts” to make…
“We are All Refugees”
This paper is in conversation with two important bodies of literature: one on informal settlements (informal and insurgent grassroots practices) and another on camps (spatial practices and governance of refugees). Reading inhabitants’ experiences in Korail, an informal settlement in Dhaka, Bangladesh, through the literature grounded in the experiences of refugees, we seek to contribute to the relational theorization of informal settlements and ca…
Seeing the insurgent in transformative planning practices
Insurgent planning and radical planning are two of the most popular conceptual frames of reference for progressive planners and theorists of transformative planning practices. In the past decades, scholars have extended these two planning conceptions to new geographies and realities to shed light on how planning can challenge structural injustices and marginalization. However, less attention has been given to how insurgent planning renovates radi…
The Joy of Many Stories
In this article, we reflect on our experiences of teaching urban planning courses that through storytelling center on issues of globalization, urbanization, planning, and social and spatial inequalities. We contemplate using zine-making and multimedia story-mapping to overcome impediments instructors usually face in engaging diverse students in appreciating the complexities of social justice on global and local scales. In light of critical femini…
Beyond a liberal reading of insurgent in transformative planning practices
As I begin this response, I am drawn to a recently published article by Vasudevan and Novoa (2021) where the authors name as "pluriversal planning scholarship" a constellation of creative methodologies and theoretical insights rooted in "southern" or "south/eastern" realities.Pluriversal planning scholarship centers the needs and voices of subordinate communities, challenges the hegemony of Western thought, embraces epistemic multiplicity in plan…
People move, policies don’t
In Bangladesh, internal climate displacement will continue pushing millions to the urbanizing centres where migrants make homes in informal settlements. These settlements, too, are sites for climate hazards such as heat stress and flooding, affecting climate-displaced and economic migrants alike. The demands of growing migrant populations and long-term informal settlement dwellers converge around rights to secure land and housing, acknowledged in…
Urbanizing social reproduction
Feminist social reproduction scholarship has shown how reproductive labor is critical in understanding the evolving dynamics of global capitalism. However, more work is needed to explicate the spatial dimension of this relationship to understand the various modalities through which social reproduction is enrolled in capitalist city-making processes and how these modalities are contested. Drawing on observations from multiple sites ranging from ci…
The destructive work of restoration
Urban river restoration efforts are growing worldwide. Along with restoring and conserving rivers, riverside land is slated for public recreation, property development, and infrastructure for adaptation to climate change. Riverine landscapes, embedded in larger watershed ecosystems and claimed by multiple communities, are sites of contested planning in contemporary cities. In this paper, we advance the scholarship on contestation over control and…
Green Informalities as Socially Just Ecological Infrastructure
Ecological infrastructure and urban agriculture are enacting a green resurgence in cities. In the global South, however, ecological infrastructure is often premised on erasing already existing informal agricultural practices (green informalities) and leads to the displacement of marginalized urban dwellers. How, then, can ecological infrastructure be calibrated with the specific realities of the global South's green informalities? What other soci…
Between Queer Joy and Injury
This article expands the notion of queer domesticity from the vantage point of the global South. Drawing on autoethnography, ephemeral archives, and secondary sources, the authors examine Nanur Basha, the residence of a Bangladeshi queer activist and community mentor, which in 2016 was the site of two murders committed by a local chapter of Al-Qaeda. By empirically interrogating the events leading up to the unmaking of Nanur Basha, the authors ar…
Weaving pluriversal entanglements for urban wetland regeneration
This article advances pluriversal entanglements, a conceptual framework that reimagines urban wetland regeneration through a heterogeneous approach grounded in dweller-led epistemologies and praxis, building on insights from an actually existing restoration initiative. Responding to the escalating degradation of urban wetlands amid climate change and exclusionary development, pluriversal entanglements critiques dominant technocratic governance pa…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works)