Mubbashir Rizvi
Biographic Data
| ID | 145687 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mubbashir Rizvi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mubbashir |
| FAMILY NAME | Rizvi |
| SIGNATURE | RIZVI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-7702-2243 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
"Strange" affinities
British Muslim volunteers in Syria have been variously cast as humanitarians, activists, and-under the suspicious gaze of the war on terror-disguised militants. Yet many volunteers frame their efforts as attempts at iṣlāḥ (reform, repair, rectification). What is the ethicopolitical life of iṣlāḥ, a multivalent concept in the Islamic tradition, in a landscape marked by war and international relief efforts? Considered ethnographically, iṣlāḥ organi…
Colonial Infrastructure and the Politics of Partition of Punjab
34 Field Trip Larkin, Brian. 2018. “Promising Forms: The Political Aesthetics of Infrastructure .” In The Promise of Infrastructure, edited by Hannah Appel, Nikhil Anand, and Akhil Gupta, 175– 202. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Perlez, Jane, and Yufan Huang. 2016. “China Promoting Tourism for Disputed Paracel Islands.” New York Times, May 8. https://www.nytimes .com/2016/05/29/world/asia/south-china-sea-tourism.html. Roberts, Brian Russel…
A divided movement
Contemporary rural social movements in South Asia are increasingly dependent on NGOs and urban civil society networks to expand their local struggle to the national and even international levels. This development has shifted the political dynamics of rural social movements in unexpected ways as NGOs and urban activists affiliated with civil society organizations have supplanted older Left oriented political parties and local elites as the primary…
From terrorism to dispossession
The discourse of the 'war on terror' fails to address the complex and multifaceted structural violence of landlessness, food insecurity and environmental degradation that afflicts the world. Pakistan, for instance, has been a subject of great discussion and geopolitical analysis as the ground zero in the war against terror. However, the scholarship on terrorism in Pakistan analyzes militant and jihadi groups as discrete agents of primordial confl…
The moral ecology of colonial infrastructure and the vicissitudes of land rights in rural Pakistan
For the last 10 years, the Pakistan army has not been able to collect rent from tenant farmers on its military farms in central Punjab. In this article, I analyse the historical and cultural significance of this contested land by using insights from recent literature on the politics of infrastructure to examine the contingency of rule in Pakistan, a postcolonial state, which is dominated by its army. I illustrate these dynamics by exploring the c…
The moral ecology of colonial infrastructure and the vicissitudes of land rights in rural Pakistan
For the last 10 years, the Pakistan army has not been able to collect rent from tenant farmers on its military farms in central Punjab. In this article, I analyse the historical and cultural significance of this contested land by using insights from recent literature on the politics of infrastructure to examine the contingency of rule in Pakistan, a postcolonial state, which is dominated by its army. I illustrate these dynamics by exploring the c…
From terrorism to dispossession
The discourse of the 'war on terror' fails to address the complex and multifaceted structural violence of landlessness, food insecurity and environmental degradation that afflicts the world. Pakistan, for instance, has been a subject of great discussion and geopolitical analysis as the ground zero in the war against terror. However, the scholarship on terrorism in Pakistan analyzes militant and jihadi groups as discrete agents of primordial confl…
A divided movement
Contemporary rural social movements in South Asia are increasingly dependent on NGOs and urban civil society networks to expand their local struggle to the national and even international levels. This development has shifted the political dynamics of rural social movements in unexpected ways as NGOs and urban activists affiliated with civil society organizations have supplanted older Left oriented political parties and local elites as the primary…
The moral ecology of colonial infrastructure and the vicissitudes of land rights in rural Pakistan
For the last 10 years, the Pakistan army has not been able to collect rent from tenant farmers on its military farms in central Punjab. In this article, I analyse the historical and cultural significance of this contested land by using insights from recent literature on the politics of infrastructure to examine the contingency of rule in Pakistan, a postcolonial state, which is dominated by its army. I illustrate these dynamics by exploring the c…
From terrorism to dispossession
The discourse of the 'war on terror' fails to address the complex and multifaceted structural violence of landlessness, food insecurity and environmental degradation that afflicts the world. Pakistan, for instance, has been a subject of great discussion and geopolitical analysis as the ground zero in the war against terror. However, the scholarship on terrorism in Pakistan analyzes militant and jihadi groups as discrete agents of primordial confl…
A divided movement
Contemporary rural social movements in South Asia are increasingly dependent on NGOs and urban civil society networks to expand their local struggle to the national and even international levels. This development has shifted the political dynamics of rural social movements in unexpected ways as NGOs and urban activists affiliated with civil society organizations have supplanted older Left oriented political parties and local elites as the primary…
Colonial Infrastructure and the Politics of Partition of Punjab
34 Field Trip Larkin, Brian. 2018. “Promising Forms: The Political Aesthetics of Infrastructure .” In The Promise of Infrastructure, edited by Hannah Appel, Nikhil Anand, and Akhil Gupta, 175– 202. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Perlez, Jane, and Yufan Huang. 2016. “China Promoting Tourism for Disputed Paracel Islands.” New York Times, May 8. https://www.nytimes .com/2016/05/29/world/asia/south-china-sea-tourism.html. Roberts, Brian Russel…
"Strange" affinities
British Muslim volunteers in Syria have been variously cast as humanitarians, activists, and-under the suspicious gaze of the war on terror-disguised militants. Yet many volunteers frame their efforts as attempts at iṣlāḥ (reform, repair, rectification). What is the ethicopolitical life of iṣlāḥ, a multivalent concept in the Islamic tradition, in a landscape marked by war and international relief efforts? Considered ethnographically, iṣlāḥ organi…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Peasant (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Political Theology and Sovereignty (2 works)