Ali Nobil Ahmad
Biographic Data
| ID | 262906 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ali Nobil Ahmad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ali Nobil |
| FAMILY NAME | Ahmad |
| SIGNATURE | AHMAD A N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lahore University of Management Sciences |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Infrastructure, Development, and Displacement in Pakistan’s “Southern Punjab”
This article explores the relationship between infrastructure, uneven development, and displacement in Pakistan’s “Southern Punjab”. It focuses on three historical episodes spanning the colonial era to the present: (1) agricultural colonisation during the colonial/early post‐colonial period; (2) the Great Indus Flood of 2010; and (3) contemporary initiatives to develop energy infrastructure in Southern Punjab within the framework of CPEC, the Chi…
Disaster cosmologies in comparative perspective: Islam, climate change and the 2010 floods in Pakistan's Southern Punjab
As humanity enters a new era of climate-induced unpredictability, research into the role of religion in shaping perceptions of, and responses to disaster will become increasingly important. This is particularly true of South Asia, which contains dense populations certain to be adversely affected by climate change. This contribution explores the way religion shapes and mediates responses to disaster in Pakistan. Where previous work in this field h…
Explorations into Pakistani cinema: Introduction
Friday 21 September 2012 in Pakistan was officially designated ‘Youm-e Ishq-e Rasool’, a national ‘Day of Love for the Prophet’, marking the country’s formal participation in a wave of angry protests that swept the Muslim world in response to the uploading of an ‘anti-Islamic’ film clip on YouTube. Amidst the globally televised demonstrations that ensued, nine of Karachi and Peshawar’s most cherished cinema halls were vandalized by rioters. Despi…
Conspiracy and statecraft in postcolonial states: Theories and realities of the hidden hand in Pakistan’s war on terror
This paper is a cautiously sympathetic treatment of conspiracy theory in Pakistan, relating it to Marxist theories of the state, structural functionalism and Machiavellian realism in international relations. Unlike moralising mainstream news reports describing terrorism in terms of horrific events and academic research endlessly lamenting the ‘failure’, ‘weakness’ and mendacity of the Pakistani state, conspiracy theory has much in common with rea…
Capitalism, Nature, and Socialism in South Asia: Perspectives on Ecology from India and Pakistan
A curious transformation has occurred along Pakistan's highways in the last ten years or so: where previously highway travel entailed dodging an armada of cars, busses, trucks, tractors and the occ
Is There a Muslim World
On 28 April 2008, Ali Nobil Ahmad wrote: Dear Professor X, My name is Ali Ahmad. I’m a researcher/journalist editing a special issue of the journal Third Text on Cinema and the Muslim World as part
From Zinda Laash to Zibahkhana: Violence and Horror in Pakistani Cinema
This article is a historical overview of cinema in Pakistan. It pays special attention to the horror film, tracing its fragmentary early history and development during the industry's heyday in the 1960s through to its contemporary re‐emergence since the 1990s. It begins with a contextual sketch of 'Lollywood's' early history and the crippling legacy of partition, highlighting the political and economic constraints faced by Pakistani film‐makers. …
Is Twitter a useful tool for journalists
This article is a critical reflection on the question of whether Twitter is a useful tool for journalists, based on close observation of The Guardian. It begins with a practice-based anthropology. Focusing on coverage of the G20 protests and other activities in 2009, it demonstrates that Twitter is a useful marketing and research tool for newspaper websites — one that supplements the traditional role of journalists as investigators and providers …
Bodies That (Don't) Matter: Desire, Eroticism and Melancholia in Pakistani Labour Migration
This paper explores the importance of sexuality in international labour migration from Pakistan, paying special attention to masculine desire and subjectivity (driving forces in sending contexts), and to the bodily experience of travel, transit and the labour process (consequences at destination). The relationships between these two aspects of the migration process are theorised by applying the insights of classical and Lacanian psychoanalysis, G…
The Labour Market Consequences of Human Smuggling: Illegal' Employment in London's Migrant Economy
This article explores the short- and medium-term labour market consequences of human smuggling for migrants at destination within the context of Pakistani migration to London. It questions the pessimistic picture painted in some recent academic and journalistic accounts of the experience of ‘illegality’, and argues that the context of reception does not necessarily make clear distinctions between so-called ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ migrants. It also …
Dead men working: Time and space in London's ('illegal') migrant economy
This article explores human smuggling's consequences through a study of London's Pakistani immigrant economy, paying particular attention to the labour process and its experiential dimensions.The latter are unpacked in empirical context with due reference to literatures on illegal migration, as well as more recent writings on employment and 'precariousness' that seek to make sense of the changing nature of work patterns under post-Fordist 'flexib…
Ali G ‐ just who do We think He Is: A response to Rachel Garfield
Whose underground: Asian cool and the poverty of hybridity
Dead men working: Time and space in London's ('illegal') migrant economy
This article explores human smuggling's consequences through a study of London's Pakistani immigrant economy, paying particular attention to the labour process and its experiential dimensions.The latter are unpacked in empirical context with due reference to literatures on illegal migration, as well as more recent writings on employment and 'precariousness' that seek to make sense of the changing nature of work patterns under post-Fordist 'flexib…
Is Twitter a useful tool for journalists
This article is a critical reflection on the question of whether Twitter is a useful tool for journalists, based on close observation of The Guardian. It begins with a practice-based anthropology. Focusing on coverage of the G20 protests and other activities in 2009, it demonstrates that Twitter is a useful marketing and research tool for newspaper websites — one that supplements the traditional role of journalists as investigators and providers …
Bodies That (Don't) Matter: Desire, Eroticism and Melancholia in Pakistani Labour Migration
This paper explores the importance of sexuality in international labour migration from Pakistan, paying special attention to masculine desire and subjectivity (driving forces in sending contexts), and to the bodily experience of travel, transit and the labour process (consequences at destination). The relationships between these two aspects of the migration process are theorised by applying the insights of classical and Lacanian psychoanalysis, G…
Infrastructure, Development, and Displacement in Pakistan’s “Southern Punjab”
This article explores the relationship between infrastructure, uneven development, and displacement in Pakistan’s “Southern Punjab”. It focuses on three historical episodes spanning the colonial era to the present: (1) agricultural colonisation during the colonial/early post‐colonial period; (2) the Great Indus Flood of 2010; and (3) contemporary initiatives to develop energy infrastructure in Southern Punjab within the framework of CPEC, the Chi…
Whose underground: Asian cool and the poverty of hybridity
Conspiracy and statecraft in postcolonial states: Theories and realities of the hidden hand in Pakistan’s war on terror
This paper is a cautiously sympathetic treatment of conspiracy theory in Pakistan, relating it to Marxist theories of the state, structural functionalism and Machiavellian realism in international relations. Unlike moralising mainstream news reports describing terrorism in terms of horrific events and academic research endlessly lamenting the ‘failure’, ‘weakness’ and mendacity of the Pakistani state, conspiracy theory has much in common with rea…
The Labour Market Consequences of Human Smuggling: Illegal' Employment in London's Migrant Economy
This article explores the short- and medium-term labour market consequences of human smuggling for migrants at destination within the context of Pakistani migration to London. It questions the pessimistic picture painted in some recent academic and journalistic accounts of the experience of ‘illegality’, and argues that the context of reception does not necessarily make clear distinctions between so-called ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ migrants. It also …
From Zinda Laash to Zibahkhana: Violence and Horror in Pakistani Cinema
This article is a historical overview of cinema in Pakistan. It pays special attention to the horror film, tracing its fragmentary early history and development during the industry's heyday in the 1960s through to its contemporary re‐emergence since the 1990s. It begins with a contextual sketch of 'Lollywood's' early history and the crippling legacy of partition, highlighting the political and economic constraints faced by Pakistani film‐makers. …
Explorations into Pakistani cinema: Introduction
Friday 21 September 2012 in Pakistan was officially designated ‘Youm-e Ishq-e Rasool’, a national ‘Day of Love for the Prophet’, marking the country’s formal participation in a wave of angry protests that swept the Muslim world in response to the uploading of an ‘anti-Islamic’ film clip on YouTube. Amidst the globally televised demonstrations that ensued, nine of Karachi and Peshawar’s most cherished cinema halls were vandalized by rioters. Despi…
Is There a Muslim World
On 28 April 2008, Ali Nobil Ahmad wrote: Dear Professor X, My name is Ali Ahmad. I’m a researcher/journalist editing a special issue of the journal Third Text on Cinema and the Muslim World as part
Disaster cosmologies in comparative perspective: Islam, climate change and the 2010 floods in Pakistan's Southern Punjab
As humanity enters a new era of climate-induced unpredictability, research into the role of religion in shaping perceptions of, and responses to disaster will become increasingly important. This is particularly true of South Asia, which contains dense populations certain to be adversely affected by climate change. This contribution explores the way religion shapes and mediates responses to disaster in Pakistan. Where previous work in this field h…
Ali G ‐ just who do We think He Is: A response to Rachel Garfield
Whose underground: Asian cool and the poverty of hybridity
The Labour Market Consequences of Human Smuggling: Illegal' Employment in London's Migrant Economy
This article explores the short- and medium-term labour market consequences of human smuggling for migrants at destination within the context of Pakistani migration to London. It questions the pessimistic picture painted in some recent academic and journalistic accounts of the experience of ‘illegality’, and argues that the context of reception does not necessarily make clear distinctions between so-called ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ migrants. It also …
Dead men working: Time and space in London's ('illegal') migrant economy
This article explores human smuggling's consequences through a study of London's Pakistani immigrant economy, paying particular attention to the labour process and its experiential dimensions.The latter are unpacked in empirical context with due reference to literatures on illegal migration, as well as more recent writings on employment and 'precariousness' that seek to make sense of the changing nature of work patterns under post-Fordist 'flexib…
Bodies That (Don't) Matter: Desire, Eroticism and Melancholia in Pakistani Labour Migration
This paper explores the importance of sexuality in international labour migration from Pakistan, paying special attention to masculine desire and subjectivity (driving forces in sending contexts), and to the bodily experience of travel, transit and the labour process (consequences at destination). The relationships between these two aspects of the migration process are theorised by applying the insights of classical and Lacanian psychoanalysis, G…
Is There a Muslim World
On 28 April 2008, Ali Nobil Ahmad wrote: Dear Professor X, My name is Ali Ahmad. I’m a researcher/journalist editing a special issue of the journal Third Text on Cinema and the Muslim World as part
From Zinda Laash to Zibahkhana: Violence and Horror in Pakistani Cinema
This article is a historical overview of cinema in Pakistan. It pays special attention to the horror film, tracing its fragmentary early history and development during the industry's heyday in the 1960s through to its contemporary re‐emergence since the 1990s. It begins with a contextual sketch of 'Lollywood's' early history and the crippling legacy of partition, highlighting the political and economic constraints faced by Pakistani film‐makers. …
Is Twitter a useful tool for journalists
This article is a critical reflection on the question of whether Twitter is a useful tool for journalists, based on close observation of The Guardian. It begins with a practice-based anthropology. Focusing on coverage of the G20 protests and other activities in 2009, it demonstrates that Twitter is a useful marketing and research tool for newspaper websites — one that supplements the traditional role of journalists as investigators and providers …
Conspiracy and statecraft in postcolonial states: Theories and realities of the hidden hand in Pakistan’s war on terror
This paper is a cautiously sympathetic treatment of conspiracy theory in Pakistan, relating it to Marxist theories of the state, structural functionalism and Machiavellian realism in international relations. Unlike moralising mainstream news reports describing terrorism in terms of horrific events and academic research endlessly lamenting the ‘failure’, ‘weakness’ and mendacity of the Pakistani state, conspiracy theory has much in common with rea…
Capitalism, Nature, and Socialism in South Asia: Perspectives on Ecology from India and Pakistan
A curious transformation has occurred along Pakistan's highways in the last ten years or so: where previously highway travel entailed dodging an armada of cars, busses, trucks, tractors and the occ
Explorations into Pakistani cinema: Introduction
Friday 21 September 2012 in Pakistan was officially designated ‘Youm-e Ishq-e Rasool’, a national ‘Day of Love for the Prophet’, marking the country’s formal participation in a wave of angry protests that swept the Muslim world in response to the uploading of an ‘anti-Islamic’ film clip on YouTube. Amidst the globally televised demonstrations that ensued, nine of Karachi and Peshawar’s most cherished cinema halls were vandalized by rioters. Despi…
Disaster cosmologies in comparative perspective: Islam, climate change and the 2010 floods in Pakistan's Southern Punjab
As humanity enters a new era of climate-induced unpredictability, research into the role of religion in shaping perceptions of, and responses to disaster will become increasingly important. This is particularly true of South Asia, which contains dense populations certain to be adversely affected by climate change. This contribution explores the way religion shapes and mediates responses to disaster in Pakistan. Where previous work in this field h…
Infrastructure, Development, and Displacement in Pakistan’s “Southern Punjab”
This article explores the relationship between infrastructure, uneven development, and displacement in Pakistan’s “Southern Punjab”. It focuses on three historical episodes spanning the colonial era to the present: (1) agricultural colonisation during the colonial/early post‐colonial period; (2) the Great Indus Flood of 2010; and (3) contemporary initiatives to develop energy infrastructure in Southern Punjab within the framework of CPEC, the Chi…
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