Abdul Aijaz
Biographic Data
| ID | 254829 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abdul Aijaz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abdul |
| FAMILY NAME | Aijaz |
| SIGNATURE | AIJAZ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-4812-0970 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Politics and Poetics of Water and Hydrosocial Crisis in Punjab
This essay explores the interconnections between eco‐aesthetics, narratives of development, and hydropolitics to better understand the twin material and narrative crises of water in Pakistan. Challenging the dominant narratives of water as external, passive, objective, and ahistorical, this essay provides a situated analysis of the co‐production of water and society in Punjabi landscape to reveal the entanglements of the prevalent water crisis, e…
State, scarcity, and survival: A minor history of people and place in the Lower Bari Doab, Punjab
The progressive materialization of the modern state and capitalist agrarian production in the interfluvial uplands of Punjab was enabled by colonial ideologies of control over nature as progress. The colonial project of the transformation of the people and place in Punjab was built upon the imperial aesthetics of waste that imagined the local landscape as hideous and pastoral communities as "semi-barbarous." These imaginaries justified the coloni…
Public Water and Covid-19: Dark Clouds and Silver Linings
The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has forced human societies around the world to take extraordinary steps to stop the spread of the virus. Although initially positioned as “the great leveler” tha
State, scarcity, and survival: A minor history of people and place in the Lower Bari Doab, Punjab
The progressive materialization of the modern state and capitalist agrarian production in the interfluvial uplands of Punjab was enabled by colonial ideologies of control over nature as progress. The colonial project of the transformation of the people and place in Punjab was built upon the imperial aesthetics of waste that imagined the local landscape as hideous and pastoral communities as "semi-barbarous." These imaginaries justified the coloni…
Public Water and Covid-19: Dark Clouds and Silver Linings
The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has forced human societies around the world to take extraordinary steps to stop the spread of the virus. Although initially positioned as “the great leveler” tha
State, scarcity, and survival: A minor history of people and place in the Lower Bari Doab, Punjab
The progressive materialization of the modern state and capitalist agrarian production in the interfluvial uplands of Punjab was enabled by colonial ideologies of control over nature as progress. The colonial project of the transformation of the people and place in Punjab was built upon the imperial aesthetics of waste that imagined the local landscape as hideous and pastoral communities as "semi-barbarous." These imaginaries justified the coloni…
Politics and Poetics of Water and Hydrosocial Crisis in Punjab
This essay explores the interconnections between eco‐aesthetics, narratives of development, and hydropolitics to better understand the twin material and narrative crises of water in Pakistan. Challenging the dominant narratives of water as external, passive, objective, and ahistorical, this essay provides a situated analysis of the co‐production of water and society in Punjabi landscape to reveal the entanglements of the prevalent water crisis, e…
Geography (2 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (2 works) · 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak (1 works) · Agrarian society (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Biology (1 works) · Climate Change and Health Impacts (1 works) · Colonialism (1 works) · COVID-19 impact on air quality (1 works)