Aneela Qadir
Biographic Data
| ID | 270174 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aneela Qadir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aneela |
| FAMILY NAME | Qadir |
| SIGNATURE | QADIR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tampere University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6419-4524 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 127 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Sustainable Agriculture Development in Rural Regions: The Combination of Green Innovation, Green Supply Chains, and Farmer Education
The synergistic combination of green innovation and digitalization is becoming essential in sustainable agriculture in rural areas. Digital economy streamlines operations by automation and data‐driven insights, whereas green innovation presents practices that lessen the use of resources and govern emissions. In its current form, this study assumes the existence of a distinct framework, which includes green innovation adoption (GIA), green supply …
Enhancing organizational sustainable innovation performance through organizational readiness for big data analytics
Organizations must employ big data analytics to maintain sustained innovation in the highly dynamic and evolving business landscape. Even though BDA has a transformative power to revolutionize how businesses do things and engage with their customers’ adopting BDA has faced significant challenges, especially in developing countries. This research aims to create a theoretical framework to understand how organizational readiness for BDA can influenc…
Home and Journey in Experiences of the Eastern Orthodox Divine Liturgy
This paper explores the experiential reality surrounding the Divine Liturgy, a Byzantine rite in Orthodox Christianity that has remained central to Eastern practice globally since Late Antiquity. The article draws on multi-sited ethnography in the glocal context of the Orthodox Church of Finland (OCF), a national church of minority and a site of multicultural interaction. Our analysis shows participants articulate their experiences with the Litur…
De-Mystifying Mysticism: A Critical Realist Perspective on Ambivalences in the Study of Mysticism
The study of mysticism has been at an impasse for many years, wavering between naïve realism around a common core hypothesis and critical questioning of the category of mysticism and its imposition. In this article, we review key 20th century developments in the study of mysticism to understand why the term was largely abandoned and unpack the contours of this impasse. Specifically, we probe the literature to ask (i) how has mysticism been define…
A complete decade of multidimensional poverty in agro-environmental regions of Pakistan: A spatial evidence of agrarian and non-agrarian communities
An Evaluation of Uni and Multidimensional Poverty Among Farming and Non-Farming Community
The Discursive Side of Sociological Institutionalism in the Study of Religion
This article introduces sociological institutionalism and proposes a discursive addition for enhancing its utility for the study of religion. The article reviews neoinstitutionalist social theorizing and underlines its argument that agentic actorhood is constituted by and embedded in a world-spanning culture. We point out that the potential of this line of scholarship for the study of religion remains unexplored partly because it does not say muc…
The moral authority of science: Evidence from parliamentary debates in seven countries
Relying on a neo-institutionalist framework of epistemic governance, this articleexamines the rhetorical function the term ‘science’ plays in the parliamentarydiscourse of seven countries. Our analysis confirms that ‘science’ is oftenreferred to by members of parliaments throughout the world and across allpolicy sectors. We find ample references not just to particular sciences, butalso to science in the abstract, and find hardly any contests arou…
Deconstruction of religious thought in Islam: Iqbal and the Ahmadiyya
Allama Muhammad Iqbal (1875 to 1938 CE) stood at the cusp of modernity in British India. As the “poet visionary” and “spiritual father” of Pakistan, his role as an anti-colonial intellectual who “dreamed” of carving out an independent Muslim homeland from British India is thoroughly ingrained in the popular imagination, state institutions, and political rhetoric. Other than Jinnah, the political “founder” of Pakistan, no other figure enjoys such …
Negotiations of Science and Religion in Nordic Institutions: An Ethnographic Approach
This article explores how two seemingly contradictory global trends-scientific rationality and religious expressiveness-intersect and are negotiated in people's lives in Nordic countries. We focus on Finland and Sweden, both countries with reputations of being highly secular and modernized welfare states. The article draws on our multi-sited ethnography in Finland and Sweden, including interviews with health practitioners, academics, and students…
Authority as Epistemic Capital
Epistemic Governance: Social Change in the Modern World
Russia in world society: A comparative perspective on international references in parliamentary debates
This article explores how international references in parliaments build a synchronized world polity, even in countries that are often portrayed as being at odds with the rest of the world. The article asks whether and how Russian parliamentarians refer to the international community, and how such references compare with parliamentary debates in other countries. The 'mesophenomenological' argument developed here connects World Society Theory, whic…
Deep Culture and the Mystical Agency of Mary in Eastern Christianity
The Virgin Mother Mary has always been venerated in Eastern Christianity far beyond her scriptural role. In this paper, we propose a symbolic framework of deep culture and apply it to understanding the prominence of Mary and the manner in which she plays a role in people's lives through a bewildering variety of Marian icons. The framework begins with a mystical/esoteric perspective to appreciate Mary as a symbol that is multivalent, irreplaceable…
Doors to the Imaginal: "Implications of Sunni Islam's Persecution of the Ahmadi "Heresy
This article focuses on the implications of Sunni persecution of Ahmadiyyat by analyzing texts by the movement's founder, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, to identify the epistemological basis of his claims to prophecy in 19th century India. Rather than situating the claims within an Arabist, juridico-theological lineage, as is normally done, the analysis emphasizes their points of convergence with Persianate, Illuminationist theosophy of the 12th century mys…
Introduction: Through an iron cage, darkly
How Heresy Makes Orthodoxy
This article explores the on-going construction, or “sedimentation,” of Sunni orthodoxy by paying attention to the boundary role of “insider-Others.” To highlight how boundary positions of heretical communities shape the category of orthodox Islam, this paper focuses on the social processes excluding the “heretical” Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in South Africa. The paper undertakes a qualitative analysis of two Supreme Court cases involving Ahmadis…
Towards an imaginal dialogue: Archetypal symbols between Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Islam
This paper explores the potential for a dialogue between religious traditions based on art, in order to complement the dominant channels that rely on conceptual meanings. Building on a theoretical framework of post-Jungian archetypal psychology - as developed by James Hillman and Henry Corbin - we propose that the utility of such a dialogue inheres in the notion of an imaginal realm, or mundus imaginalis. In the first part of the paper we highlig…
Imageries of the social world in epistemic governance
To explain why neoinstitutionalist theories have been so successful in explaining global isomorphism and to discuss how they can be extended to describe otherwise inexplicable similarities in the world, the article approaches policy-making from an epistemic governance perspective. Utilizing a constructionist view on language, the article argues that popular and political rhetoric are inextricably bound to social scientific conceptions of reality …
The construction and spread of global models: Worldwide synchronisation and the rise of national bioethics committees
Cultural approaches to national policymaking have yielded much empirical evidence that national decision-making is greatly impacted by policy choices made in other countries. Considering that the common explanation of policy diffusion cannot explain all instances of isomorphism, this paper proposes an alternative way of operationalising interdependent decision-making. Drawing on emerging work in neoinstitutionalist world society theory, we sugges…
When Heterodoxy Becomes Heresy: Using Bourdieu's Concept of Doxa to Describe State-Sanctioned Exclusion in Pakistan
This paper employs and adapts Bourdieu’s concept of doxa to describe the declaration of heresy against the Ahmadiyya in Pakistan. The Ahmadiyya, avowedly Muslim, were declared heretics by constitutional amendment in 1974, leading to their widespread persecution and bans on their use of Islamic symbols. Most analyses of this event—from a statehood and authority/“Othering” perspective—tend to overlook why the Ahmadi were singled out for this unusua…
Epistemic governance: An approach to the politics of policy-making
The aim of this paper is to make a meta-theoretical contribution to conceptions of how power and governance operate in contemporary policy-making. Most approaches to governance generally brush aside the actual mechanics of how influence is wielded and social change effected. To fill this gap we argue that society is managed increasingly through epistemic governance, which works on actors' perceptions of the world and its current challenges. Our p…
The Ideal of Utility in British Indian Policy: Tropes of the Colonial Chrestomathic University, 1835–1904
The now natural ideal of defining higher education through its societal utility is a relatively recent historical formation, and in the case of South Asia, its construction is entangled with the colonial history of the institutionalisation of modern higher education in the nineteenth century. Drawing on Robert Young's history of the Bentham-inspired ‘chrestomathic’ University of London, this article reviews the shifting construction of practicali…
Taming terror: Domestication of the war on terror in the Pakistan media
While media studies have focused on journalist roles in framing foreign news events for local readers to render them suitable for national audiences, there has been less attention to similar roles played by other social actors in bringing 'home' new models about existing realities. Therefore, this paper addresses the question of how a global catchphrase, 'war on terror,' acquired a national paradigm status by virtue of its use by multiple actors …
The domestication of foreign news: News stories related to the 2011 Egyptian revolution in British, Finnish and Pakistani newspapers
The article studies the domestication of foreign news by identifying the different ways in which the Egyptian revolt was reported and discussed in Britain, Finland and Pakistan. The data comprise the press coverage of the 2011 events in three newspapers: The Times in Britain, Helsingin Sanomat ( HS) in Finland, and the Daily Times in Pakistan. We argue that, in addition to journalists, there are other agents who contribute to domesticating foreig…
The domestication of foreign news: News stories related to the 2011 Egyptian revolution in British, Finnish and Pakistani newspapers
The article studies the domestication of foreign news by identifying the different ways in which the Egyptian revolt was reported and discussed in Britain, Finland and Pakistan. The data comprise the press coverage of the 2011 events in three newspapers: The Times in Britain, Helsingin Sanomat ( HS) in Finland, and the Daily Times in Pakistan. We argue that, in addition to journalists, there are other agents who contribute to domesticating foreig…
Epistemic governance: An approach to the politics of policy-making
The aim of this paper is to make a meta-theoretical contribution to conceptions of how power and governance operate in contemporary policy-making. Most approaches to governance generally brush aside the actual mechanics of how influence is wielded and social change effected. To fill this gap we argue that society is managed increasingly through epistemic governance, which works on actors' perceptions of the world and its current challenges. Our p…
Taming terror: Domestication of the war on terror in the Pakistan media
While media studies have focused on journalist roles in framing foreign news events for local readers to render them suitable for national audiences, there has been less attention to similar roles played by other social actors in bringing 'home' new models about existing realities. Therefore, this paper addresses the question of how a global catchphrase, 'war on terror,' acquired a national paradigm status by virtue of its use by multiple actors …
Imageries of the social world in epistemic governance
To explain why neoinstitutionalist theories have been so successful in explaining global isomorphism and to discuss how they can be extended to describe otherwise inexplicable similarities in the world, the article approaches policy-making from an epistemic governance perspective. Utilizing a constructionist view on language, the article argues that popular and political rhetoric are inextricably bound to social scientific conceptions of reality …
The moral authority of science: Evidence from parliamentary debates in seven countries
Relying on a neo-institutionalist framework of epistemic governance, this articleexamines the rhetorical function the term ‘science’ plays in the parliamentarydiscourse of seven countries. Our analysis confirms that ‘science’ is oftenreferred to by members of parliaments throughout the world and across allpolicy sectors. We find ample references not just to particular sciences, butalso to science in the abstract, and find hardly any contests arou…
Russia in world society: A comparative perspective on international references in parliamentary debates
This article explores how international references in parliaments build a synchronized world polity, even in countries that are often portrayed as being at odds with the rest of the world. The article asks whether and how Russian parliamentarians refer to the international community, and how such references compare with parliamentary debates in other countries. The 'mesophenomenological' argument developed here connects World Society Theory, whic…
Introduction: Through an iron cage, darkly
When Heterodoxy Becomes Heresy: Using Bourdieu's Concept of Doxa to Describe State-Sanctioned Exclusion in Pakistan
This paper employs and adapts Bourdieu’s concept of doxa to describe the declaration of heresy against the Ahmadiyya in Pakistan. The Ahmadiyya, avowedly Muslim, were declared heretics by constitutional amendment in 1974, leading to their widespread persecution and bans on their use of Islamic symbols. Most analyses of this event—from a statehood and authority/“Othering” perspective—tend to overlook why the Ahmadi were singled out for this unusua…
The construction and spread of global models: Worldwide synchronisation and the rise of national bioethics committees
Cultural approaches to national policymaking have yielded much empirical evidence that national decision-making is greatly impacted by policy choices made in other countries. Considering that the common explanation of policy diffusion cannot explain all instances of isomorphism, this paper proposes an alternative way of operationalising interdependent decision-making. Drawing on emerging work in neoinstitutionalist world society theory, we sugges…
An Evaluation of Uni and Multidimensional Poverty Among Farming and Non-Farming Community
The Discursive Side of Sociological Institutionalism in the Study of Religion
This article introduces sociological institutionalism and proposes a discursive addition for enhancing its utility for the study of religion. The article reviews neoinstitutionalist social theorizing and underlines its argument that agentic actorhood is constituted by and embedded in a world-spanning culture. We point out that the potential of this line of scholarship for the study of religion remains unexplored partly because it does not say muc…
Deconstruction of religious thought in Islam: Iqbal and the Ahmadiyya
Allama Muhammad Iqbal (1875 to 1938 CE) stood at the cusp of modernity in British India. As the “poet visionary” and “spiritual father” of Pakistan, his role as an anti-colonial intellectual who “dreamed” of carving out an independent Muslim homeland from British India is thoroughly ingrained in the popular imagination, state institutions, and political rhetoric. Other than Jinnah, the political “founder” of Pakistan, no other figure enjoys such …
How Heresy Makes Orthodoxy
This article explores the on-going construction, or “sedimentation,” of Sunni orthodoxy by paying attention to the boundary role of “insider-Others.” To highlight how boundary positions of heretical communities shape the category of orthodox Islam, this paper focuses on the social processes excluding the “heretical” Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in South Africa. The paper undertakes a qualitative analysis of two Supreme Court cases involving Ahmadis…
Towards an imaginal dialogue: Archetypal symbols between Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Islam
This paper explores the potential for a dialogue between religious traditions based on art, in order to complement the dominant channels that rely on conceptual meanings. Building on a theoretical framework of post-Jungian archetypal psychology - as developed by James Hillman and Henry Corbin - we propose that the utility of such a dialogue inheres in the notion of an imaginal realm, or mundus imaginalis. In the first part of the paper we highlig…
Negotiations of Science and Religion in Nordic Institutions: An Ethnographic Approach
This article explores how two seemingly contradictory global trends-scientific rationality and religious expressiveness-intersect and are negotiated in people's lives in Nordic countries. We focus on Finland and Sweden, both countries with reputations of being highly secular and modernized welfare states. The article draws on our multi-sited ethnography in Finland and Sweden, including interviews with health practitioners, academics, and students…
Doors to the Imaginal: "Implications of Sunni Islam's Persecution of the Ahmadi "Heresy
This article focuses on the implications of Sunni persecution of Ahmadiyyat by analyzing texts by the movement's founder, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, to identify the epistemological basis of his claims to prophecy in 19th century India. Rather than situating the claims within an Arabist, juridico-theological lineage, as is normally done, the analysis emphasizes their points of convergence with Persianate, Illuminationist theosophy of the 12th century mys…
Taming terror: Domestication of the war on terror in the Pakistan media
While media studies have focused on journalist roles in framing foreign news events for local readers to render them suitable for national audiences, there has been less attention to similar roles played by other social actors in bringing 'home' new models about existing realities. Therefore, this paper addresses the question of how a global catchphrase, 'war on terror,' acquired a national paradigm status by virtue of its use by multiple actors …
The domestication of foreign news: News stories related to the 2011 Egyptian revolution in British, Finnish and Pakistani newspapers
The article studies the domestication of foreign news by identifying the different ways in which the Egyptian revolt was reported and discussed in Britain, Finland and Pakistan. The data comprise the press coverage of the 2011 events in three newspapers: The Times in Britain, Helsingin Sanomat ( HS) in Finland, and the Daily Times in Pakistan. We argue that, in addition to journalists, there are other agents who contribute to domesticating foreig…
Epistemic governance: An approach to the politics of policy-making
The aim of this paper is to make a meta-theoretical contribution to conceptions of how power and governance operate in contemporary policy-making. Most approaches to governance generally brush aside the actual mechanics of how influence is wielded and social change effected. To fill this gap we argue that society is managed increasingly through epistemic governance, which works on actors' perceptions of the world and its current challenges. Our p…
The Ideal of Utility in British Indian Policy: Tropes of the Colonial Chrestomathic University, 1835–1904
The now natural ideal of defining higher education through its societal utility is a relatively recent historical formation, and in the case of South Asia, its construction is entangled with the colonial history of the institutionalisation of modern higher education in the nineteenth century. Drawing on Robert Young's history of the Bentham-inspired ‘chrestomathic’ University of London, this article reviews the shifting construction of practicali…
The construction and spread of global models: Worldwide synchronisation and the rise of national bioethics committees
Cultural approaches to national policymaking have yielded much empirical evidence that national decision-making is greatly impacted by policy choices made in other countries. Considering that the common explanation of policy diffusion cannot explain all instances of isomorphism, this paper proposes an alternative way of operationalising interdependent decision-making. Drawing on emerging work in neoinstitutionalist world society theory, we sugges…
When Heterodoxy Becomes Heresy: Using Bourdieu's Concept of Doxa to Describe State-Sanctioned Exclusion in Pakistan
This paper employs and adapts Bourdieu’s concept of doxa to describe the declaration of heresy against the Ahmadiyya in Pakistan. The Ahmadiyya, avowedly Muslim, were declared heretics by constitutional amendment in 1974, leading to their widespread persecution and bans on their use of Islamic symbols. Most analyses of this event—from a statehood and authority/“Othering” perspective—tend to overlook why the Ahmadi were singled out for this unusua…
Introduction: Through an iron cage, darkly
How Heresy Makes Orthodoxy
This article explores the on-going construction, or “sedimentation,” of Sunni orthodoxy by paying attention to the boundary role of “insider-Others.” To highlight how boundary positions of heretical communities shape the category of orthodox Islam, this paper focuses on the social processes excluding the “heretical” Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in South Africa. The paper undertakes a qualitative analysis of two Supreme Court cases involving Ahmadis…
Towards an imaginal dialogue: Archetypal symbols between Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Islam
This paper explores the potential for a dialogue between religious traditions based on art, in order to complement the dominant channels that rely on conceptual meanings. Building on a theoretical framework of post-Jungian archetypal psychology - as developed by James Hillman and Henry Corbin - we propose that the utility of such a dialogue inheres in the notion of an imaginal realm, or mundus imaginalis. In the first part of the paper we highlig…
Imageries of the social world in epistemic governance
To explain why neoinstitutionalist theories have been so successful in explaining global isomorphism and to discuss how they can be extended to describe otherwise inexplicable similarities in the world, the article approaches policy-making from an epistemic governance perspective. Utilizing a constructionist view on language, the article argues that popular and political rhetoric are inextricably bound to social scientific conceptions of reality …
Deep Culture and the Mystical Agency of Mary in Eastern Christianity
The Virgin Mother Mary has always been venerated in Eastern Christianity far beyond her scriptural role. In this paper, we propose a symbolic framework of deep culture and apply it to understanding the prominence of Mary and the manner in which she plays a role in people's lives through a bewildering variety of Marian icons. The framework begins with a mystical/esoteric perspective to appreciate Mary as a symbol that is multivalent, irreplaceable…
Doors to the Imaginal: "Implications of Sunni Islam's Persecution of the Ahmadi "Heresy
This article focuses on the implications of Sunni persecution of Ahmadiyyat by analyzing texts by the movement's founder, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, to identify the epistemological basis of his claims to prophecy in 19th century India. Rather than situating the claims within an Arabist, juridico-theological lineage, as is normally done, the analysis emphasizes their points of convergence with Persianate, Illuminationist theosophy of the 12th century mys…
Authority as Epistemic Capital
Epistemic Governance: Social Change in the Modern World
Russia in world society: A comparative perspective on international references in parliamentary debates
This article explores how international references in parliaments build a synchronized world polity, even in countries that are often portrayed as being at odds with the rest of the world. The article asks whether and how Russian parliamentarians refer to the international community, and how such references compare with parliamentary debates in other countries. The 'mesophenomenological' argument developed here connects World Society Theory, whic…
The moral authority of science: Evidence from parliamentary debates in seven countries
Relying on a neo-institutionalist framework of epistemic governance, this articleexamines the rhetorical function the term ‘science’ plays in the parliamentarydiscourse of seven countries. Our analysis confirms that ‘science’ is oftenreferred to by members of parliaments throughout the world and across allpolicy sectors. We find ample references not just to particular sciences, butalso to science in the abstract, and find hardly any contests arou…
Deconstruction of religious thought in Islam: Iqbal and the Ahmadiyya
Allama Muhammad Iqbal (1875 to 1938 CE) stood at the cusp of modernity in British India. As the “poet visionary” and “spiritual father” of Pakistan, his role as an anti-colonial intellectual who “dreamed” of carving out an independent Muslim homeland from British India is thoroughly ingrained in the popular imagination, state institutions, and political rhetoric. Other than Jinnah, the political “founder” of Pakistan, no other figure enjoys such …
Negotiations of Science and Religion in Nordic Institutions: An Ethnographic Approach
This article explores how two seemingly contradictory global trends-scientific rationality and religious expressiveness-intersect and are negotiated in people's lives in Nordic countries. We focus on Finland and Sweden, both countries with reputations of being highly secular and modernized welfare states. The article draws on our multi-sited ethnography in Finland and Sweden, including interviews with health practitioners, academics, and students…
The Discursive Side of Sociological Institutionalism in the Study of Religion
This article introduces sociological institutionalism and proposes a discursive addition for enhancing its utility for the study of religion. The article reviews neoinstitutionalist social theorizing and underlines its argument that agentic actorhood is constituted by and embedded in a world-spanning culture. We point out that the potential of this line of scholarship for the study of religion remains unexplored partly because it does not say muc…
A complete decade of multidimensional poverty in agro-environmental regions of Pakistan: A spatial evidence of agrarian and non-agrarian communities
An Evaluation of Uni and Multidimensional Poverty Among Farming and Non-Farming Community
Enhancing organizational sustainable innovation performance through organizational readiness for big data analytics
Organizations must employ big data analytics to maintain sustained innovation in the highly dynamic and evolving business landscape. Even though BDA has a transformative power to revolutionize how businesses do things and engage with their customers’ adopting BDA has faced significant challenges, especially in developing countries. This research aims to create a theoretical framework to understand how organizational readiness for BDA can influenc…
Home and Journey in Experiences of the Eastern Orthodox Divine Liturgy
This paper explores the experiential reality surrounding the Divine Liturgy, a Byzantine rite in Orthodox Christianity that has remained central to Eastern practice globally since Late Antiquity. The article draws on multi-sited ethnography in the glocal context of the Orthodox Church of Finland (OCF), a national church of minority and a site of multicultural interaction. Our analysis shows participants articulate their experiences with the Litur…
De-Mystifying Mysticism: A Critical Realist Perspective on Ambivalences in the Study of Mysticism
The study of mysticism has been at an impasse for many years, wavering between naïve realism around a common core hypothesis and critical questioning of the category of mysticism and its imposition. In this article, we review key 20th century developments in the study of mysticism to understand why the term was largely abandoned and unpack the contours of this impasse. Specifically, we probe the literature to ask (i) how has mysticism been define…
Sustainable Agriculture Development in Rural Regions: The Combination of Green Innovation, Green Supply Chains, and Farmer Education
The synergistic combination of green innovation and digitalization is becoming essential in sustainable agriculture in rural areas. Digital economy streamlines operations by automation and data‐driven insights, whereas green innovation presents practices that lessen the use of resources and govern emissions. In its current form, this study assumes the existence of a distinct framework, which includes green innovation adoption (GIA), green supply …
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