Hussain
Biographic Data
| ID | 16414 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hussain |
| FAMILY NAME | Hussain |
| SIGNATURE | HUSSAIN |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6638-0494 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Questioning Migrants: Ethnic Nationalism at the Limits of Pakistan
Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic: A compr…
BACKGROUND: Estimates of demographic metrics are crucial to assess levels and trends of population health outcomes. The profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on populations worldwide has underscored the need for timely estimates to understand this unprecedented event within the context of long-term population health trends. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021 provides new demographic estimates for 204 cou…
Hijra, trans, and the grids of “passing”
This paper examines the contestation about khwajasara corporeality—legal, medical and activist claims about the khwajasara body—and how it has been subjected to state projects of welfare and citizenship in South Asia. The khwajasara/hijra body was a suspicious and a transgressive body for the colonial state, but it has become a target of legal and medical forms of knowledge with the transformation of the “transgender” as a new subject of citizens…
The state of health in the European Union (EU-27) in 2019: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease study 2019
There was a clear trend towards improvement in the overall health status of the EU but with differences between countries. EU health policymakers need to address the burden of diseases, paying specific attention to causes such as mental disorders. There are many opportunities for mutual learning among otherwise similar countries with different patterns of disease
Uneven Counting: The Legal Economy of Death, Sacrifice, and Compassion in Pakistan
Drawn from research conducted with the families of child victims of a terrorist attack (on Army Public School) in Pakistan, this paper examines how these victim families make sense of contingencies of loss, suffering, and victimhood in their struggle for equal compensation and benefits of care and compassion. Compensating lives in warfare has not received attention in the discussion on the social life of militarism in anthropology. Monetary compe…
Global, regional, and national burden of diabetes from 1990 to 2021, with projections of prevalence to 2050: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
BACKGROUND: Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide, and affects people regardless of country, age group, or sex. Using the most recent evidentiary and analytical framework from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD), we produced location-specific, age-specific, and sex-specific estimates of diabetes prevalence and burden from 1990 to 2021, the proportion of type 1 and type 2 diabetes…
Built lives: Khwajasaras , Jouno‐Karmis , and the Politics of Non‐Normative Kinship and Citizenship in South Asia
This paper examines how relationships are ‘built’ among khwajasaras [non‐normative non‐binary persons] and female jouno karmis [sex workers] in two sites in Pakistan and India respectively. We focus on the non‐normative nature of these relationships, first, to disassemble gender normativity itself; second, to argue that the colonial legacy of bureaucratic norming of kinship in South Asia, anchored in legal consanguinity and affinity on one hand, …
Population-level risks of alcohol consumption by amount, geography, age, sex, and year: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2020
BACKGROUND: The health risks associated with moderate alcohol consumption continue to be debated. Small amounts of alcohol might lower the risk of some health outcomes but increase the risk of others, suggesting that the overall risk depends, in part, on background disease rates, which vary by region, age, sex, and year. METHODS: For this analysis, we constructed burden-weighted dose-response relative risk curves across 22 health outcomes to esti…
"Witnessing "imperfect victims: (In)culpability, collaboration, and the “suffering subject
After the 9/11 attacks, Pakistan's military government unleashed a program of extrajudicial detentions to surveil and track down "Islamic terrorists." These men are known as the "missing" or "disappeared" persons in the movement mobilized by their families to protest the abductions. Ethnographic research with the families of "missing persons" in Pakistan, however, involves working with people whom I call "imperfect victims"-that is, persons who d…
The Everyday Life of Activism
State, gender and the life of colonial laws: The hijras/khwajasaras' history of dispossession and their demand for dignity and izzat in Pakistan
This article critically assesses the notion of dignity used in recent Supreme Court judgments on ‘third gender’ and ‘transgender rights’ in South Asia, and suggests a reexamination of dignity as the basis for demanding justice for historical wrongs. Tracing the constitutional genealogy of the idea, I suggest that dignity has a distinctively European philosophical and legal origin. Yet the category of dignity has taken on a universal significance,…
Violence, Law, and the Archive: How Dossiers of Memory Challenge Enforced Disappearances in the War on Terror in Pakistan
This article examines the politics of protest in Pakistan as practiced by the human rights activists and litigants seeking justice for people who have been "disappeared" by the state's military and intelligence services. Based on fieldwork among the family members and friends of these "missing" persons, it discusses how they create dossiers of memory to retain the memory of the disappeared within public sphere and records. Most studies of state b…
Kamran Asdar Ali, Surkh Salam: Communist Politics and Class Activism in Pakistan 1947-1972
In his “red salute” to Communism in Pakistan, Surkh Salam: Communist Politics and Class Activism in Pakistan (1947-1972), Kamran Asdar Ali traces the early history of the Communist party and its politics in the country. Ali focuses on three main sites of radical politics during the period under review: the Communist Party of Pakistan (henceforth the CPP); progressive literature, writers and their literary movements; and labor formations (of the e…
Looking for ‘tribals’ without politics, ‘warlords’ without history: The drug economy, development and political power in Afghanistan
The post-September 11 narrative of the drug economy attempts to isolate this ‘problem’ to the space of Afghanistan locally by stressing the tropes of tribalism and warlordism. In this narrative, these two phenomena are framed as obstacles in building a strong state and its institutions and ensuring development in Afghanistan. In contrast, I propose to understand tribalism and warlordism as political and historical categories, both in the sense of…
Beyond Norm and Exception: Guantánamo
Valuing the impacts of climate change on protected areas in Africa
Beyond Norm and Exception: Guantánamo
Violence, Law, and the Archive: How Dossiers of Memory Challenge Enforced Disappearances in the War on Terror in Pakistan
This article examines the politics of protest in Pakistan as practiced by the human rights activists and litigants seeking justice for people who have been "disappeared" by the state's military and intelligence services. Based on fieldwork among the family members and friends of these "missing" persons, it discusses how they create dossiers of memory to retain the memory of the disappeared within public sphere and records. Most studies of state b…
"Witnessing "imperfect victims: (In)culpability, collaboration, and the “suffering subject
After the 9/11 attacks, Pakistan's military government unleashed a program of extrajudicial detentions to surveil and track down "Islamic terrorists." These men are known as the "missing" or "disappeared" persons in the movement mobilized by their families to protest the abductions. Ethnographic research with the families of "missing persons" in Pakistan, however, involves working with people whom I call "imperfect victims"-that is, persons who d…
State, gender and the life of colonial laws: The hijras/khwajasaras' history of dispossession and their demand for dignity and izzat in Pakistan
This article critically assesses the notion of dignity used in recent Supreme Court judgments on ‘third gender’ and ‘transgender rights’ in South Asia, and suggests a reexamination of dignity as the basis for demanding justice for historical wrongs. Tracing the constitutional genealogy of the idea, I suggest that dignity has a distinctively European philosophical and legal origin. Yet the category of dignity has taken on a universal significance,…
Valuing the impacts of climate change on protected areas in Africa
Beyond Norm and Exception: Guantánamo
Looking for ‘tribals’ without politics, ‘warlords’ without history: The drug economy, development and political power in Afghanistan
The post-September 11 narrative of the drug economy attempts to isolate this ‘problem’ to the space of Afghanistan locally by stressing the tropes of tribalism and warlordism. In this narrative, these two phenomena are framed as obstacles in building a strong state and its institutions and ensuring development in Afghanistan. In contrast, I propose to understand tribalism and warlordism as political and historical categories, both in the sense of…
Kamran Asdar Ali, Surkh Salam: Communist Politics and Class Activism in Pakistan 1947-1972
In his “red salute” to Communism in Pakistan, Surkh Salam: Communist Politics and Class Activism in Pakistan (1947-1972), Kamran Asdar Ali traces the early history of the Communist party and its politics in the country. Ali focuses on three main sites of radical politics during the period under review: the Communist Party of Pakistan (henceforth the CPP); progressive literature, writers and their literary movements; and labor formations (of the e…
State, gender and the life of colonial laws: The hijras/khwajasaras' history of dispossession and their demand for dignity and izzat in Pakistan
This article critically assesses the notion of dignity used in recent Supreme Court judgments on ‘third gender’ and ‘transgender rights’ in South Asia, and suggests a reexamination of dignity as the basis for demanding justice for historical wrongs. Tracing the constitutional genealogy of the idea, I suggest that dignity has a distinctively European philosophical and legal origin. Yet the category of dignity has taken on a universal significance,…
Violence, Law, and the Archive: How Dossiers of Memory Challenge Enforced Disappearances in the War on Terror in Pakistan
This article examines the politics of protest in Pakistan as practiced by the human rights activists and litigants seeking justice for people who have been "disappeared" by the state's military and intelligence services. Based on fieldwork among the family members and friends of these "missing" persons, it discusses how they create dossiers of memory to retain the memory of the disappeared within public sphere and records. Most studies of state b…
The Everyday Life of Activism
Population-level risks of alcohol consumption by amount, geography, age, sex, and year: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2020
BACKGROUND: The health risks associated with moderate alcohol consumption continue to be debated. Small amounts of alcohol might lower the risk of some health outcomes but increase the risk of others, suggesting that the overall risk depends, in part, on background disease rates, which vary by region, age, sex, and year. METHODS: For this analysis, we constructed burden-weighted dose-response relative risk curves across 22 health outcomes to esti…
"Witnessing "imperfect victims: (In)culpability, collaboration, and the “suffering subject
After the 9/11 attacks, Pakistan's military government unleashed a program of extrajudicial detentions to surveil and track down "Islamic terrorists." These men are known as the "missing" or "disappeared" persons in the movement mobilized by their families to protest the abductions. Ethnographic research with the families of "missing persons" in Pakistan, however, involves working with people whom I call "imperfect victims"-that is, persons who d…
Global, regional, and national burden of diabetes from 1990 to 2021, with projections of prevalence to 2050: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
BACKGROUND: Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide, and affects people regardless of country, age group, or sex. Using the most recent evidentiary and analytical framework from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD), we produced location-specific, age-specific, and sex-specific estimates of diabetes prevalence and burden from 1990 to 2021, the proportion of type 1 and type 2 diabetes…
Built lives: Khwajasaras , Jouno‐Karmis , and the Politics of Non‐Normative Kinship and Citizenship in South Asia
This paper examines how relationships are ‘built’ among khwajasaras [non‐normative non‐binary persons] and female jouno karmis [sex workers] in two sites in Pakistan and India respectively. We focus on the non‐normative nature of these relationships, first, to disassemble gender normativity itself; second, to argue that the colonial legacy of bureaucratic norming of kinship in South Asia, anchored in legal consanguinity and affinity on one hand, …
Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic: A compr…
BACKGROUND: Estimates of demographic metrics are crucial to assess levels and trends of population health outcomes. The profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on populations worldwide has underscored the need for timely estimates to understand this unprecedented event within the context of long-term population health trends. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021 provides new demographic estimates for 204 cou…
Hijra, trans, and the grids of “passing”
This paper examines the contestation about khwajasara corporeality—legal, medical and activist claims about the khwajasara body—and how it has been subjected to state projects of welfare and citizenship in South Asia. The khwajasara/hijra body was a suspicious and a transgressive body for the colonial state, but it has become a target of legal and medical forms of knowledge with the transformation of the “transgender” as a new subject of citizens…
The state of health in the European Union (EU-27) in 2019: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease study 2019
There was a clear trend towards improvement in the overall health status of the EU but with differences between countries. EU health policymakers need to address the burden of diseases, paying specific attention to causes such as mental disorders. There are many opportunities for mutual learning among otherwise similar countries with different patterns of disease
Uneven Counting: The Legal Economy of Death, Sacrifice, and Compassion in Pakistan
Drawn from research conducted with the families of child victims of a terrorist attack (on Army Public School) in Pakistan, this paper examines how these victim families make sense of contingencies of loss, suffering, and victimhood in their struggle for equal compensation and benefits of care and compassion. Compensating lives in warfare has not received attention in the discussion on the social life of militarism in anthropology. Monetary compe…
Questioning Migrants: Ethnic Nationalism at the Limits of Pakistan
Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (4 works) · Disease (3 works) · Environmental health (3 works)