Nausheen H Anwar
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 303870 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nausheen H Anwar |
| NOMBRES | Nausheen H |
| APELLIDO | Anwar |
| FIRMA | ANWAR N H |
| AFILIACIONES | Institute of Business Administration Karachi |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7208-6294 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 98 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The Politics of Extreme Heat in Urban South Asia
Home to a quarter of the world’s population, South Asia is at the forefront of extreme heat. The politics of extreme heat in South Asia involves the social implications of its effects on poor and vulnerable populations, especially those living in urban low-income and informal settlements. In Pakistan, extreme heat is the most overlooked dynamic in the broader discourse on climate change. Unless we recognize how histories of exclusion have shaped …
Hot climates in urban South Asia
Although the climate has admittedly always been hot and humid in cities like Karachi, increasingly hotter temperatures are exacerbating the impact of heat on informal, precariously employed outdoor workers such as street vendors, guards and rickshaw drivers, who must negotiate their right and access to shade at the everyday scale. Recalling Mike Davis’ radical, political claim that shade is an inalienable human right, this paper proposes that few…
The atmospheres of massiveness
In this introduction to the special issue on massive urbanisation, the collective that has prepared this issue reviews the thinking and experiences that have been important to them. The reflections centre on the use of 'massive' in Jamaican patois, where it has two countervailing meanings. On the one hand, it means an inordinate lack of sensitivity to the real conditions taking place, a sense of extreme self-inflation beyond reason. On the other,…
From one flooding crisis to the next
Every few years, Karachi floods during the summer monsoon. The flooding brings latent manoeuvrings by political actors looking to establish their hold over the city to the surface. Politicians, urban administrators, and relevant state and non-state institutions blame historical planning failures, informal and illegal constructions, institutional conflict, incapable municipal governance, and widespread corruption for the flooding. They move quickl…
South Asian Urban Climates
This Interventions essay presents 14 stories of, and positions on, urban climates in South Asia. The authors analyze the terms 'mahaul,' 'mausam,' and 'aab-o-hawa' as critical concepts to conceptualize climate in its political, social, historical, atmospheric, ecological, material, sensory, and embodied registers. The stories connect concerns about broader structural conditions ('mahaul'); local and lived experiences in different temporal registe…
Intersectional coproduction and infrastructural violence
The delivery of projects for the coproduction of services raises multiple questions about how different structural barriers prevent and hinder the participation of various sectors of the population. Intersectionality theory provides a critical lens to examine the delivery of such coproduction projects to refine any strategies to include vulnerable perspectives or perspectives that get silenced by existing hierarchies. This paper presents an inter…
Without water, there is no life’
This article provides new insights into the politics of water provisioning in Karachi’s informal settlements, where water shortages and contaminations have pushed ordinary citizens to live on the knife edge of water scarcity. We turn our attention to the everyday practices that involve gendered insecurities of water in Karachi, which has been Pakistan’s security laboratory for decades. We explore four shifting security logics that strongly contri…
Gender, global terror, and everyday violence in urban Pakistan
Research assistants, reflexivity and the politics of fieldwork in urban Pakistan
In this paper, we discuss the politics of fieldwork in urban Pakistan and in doing so draw attention to the role of research assistants (RAs) in the production of knowledge. The discussion explores how the roles, reflexivity and positionality of our three Muslim female RAs adds depth to our understanding of fieldwork in a culturally and politically charged urban setting where everyday violence combined with wealth asymmetries and anxieties over r…
Re-imagining Inclusive Urban Futures for Transformation
Asian mobilities and state governance at the geographic margins
This article's central concern is to consider the geographic 'margins' in relationship to state governance in Pakistan. In doing so, it gestures toward wider theoretical lessons that can be drawn through ethnographic explorations of Karachi's periphery and of Pak-Iran border towns such as Taftan located in the province of Baluchistan. Central to the discussion is the idea of mobility. The article considers three different types of mobility across…
Islamabad and the Politics of International Development in Pakistan
Laurent Gayer, Karachi
Is Karachi an anarchic metropolis? Laurent Gayer, a research fellow at the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), posits an answer to this and other questions in his book Karachi: Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City, which explores the multifaceted political and criminal violence that undergirds state-society dynamics in one of Asia’s fastest growing cities. With an estimated population of 21 million, Karachi is Pa…
The postcolonial city in S outh A sia
As a colonial invention, K arachi embodies the dynamics of postcolonial movement, diasporic populations, class inequality, new aspirations and abrasions, and a radical assortment of ethnicities and cultures. While K arachi remains a space where relations of power established during British colonial rule linger, it is also a site where new structures of power and a politics of identity have been negotiated and autochthonous claims contested. In th…
Producing cosmopolitan Karachi
Pakistan’s urban transformations are rarely discussed in relation to its changing political-economic conjunctures and new aesthetic sensibilities. Over the past decade, Pakistan’s leading metropolis, Karachi, has witnessed the impact of numerous projects that have sought to mould a new avatar backed by corporatist visions of a world-class city. These configurations articulate not only a new architectural aesthetic but also a state-nationalist vis…
Urban transformations
This essay reflects on the complexity of urban life in Karachi by exploring the politics of planning and community building in its urbanizing periphery. The periphery is an agrarian-pastoral stretch and sparsely populated region where villages (goths) were given usufruct rights during British rule. During General Pervez Musharraf’s (1999–2007) post-9/11, post-liberalization and decentralization phase, this vast expanse was subdivided and administ…
Negotiating new conjunctures of citizenship
In this article, I examine aspects of recent shifts in Pakistani citizenship norms and the implications for migrant populations. In doing so, I investigate how the coalescing of national security concerns with broader issues of immigration has brought 'illegal' migrants like the Burmese-Rohingya and Bangladeshis into the state's documented embrace. My purpose is threefold: to record the modalities of change through the discourse of 'illegality' w…
State Power, Civic Participation and the Urban Frontier
A martial state's neoliberal policies opened the nation's frontiers to new forms of globalization. This article investigates the political process that undergirded the military and global capital's sequestration of common land in Karachi and the concomitant contestation by a key civil society organization. Using Foucault's conception of sovereignty and government as an assemblage of authority and strategies of rationalization, this paper analyses…
The globalization of retailing (2 Volumes)
Scholarly debates on contemporary globalization processes have focused primarily on manufacturing systems and been inattentive to the transformative role of retail distribution. This has happened even though retail industry transnational corporations (TNCs) such as Carrefour and Wal-Mart emerged in the late 1990s as major global firms with market capitalizations that dwarfed their manufacturing TNC rivals (Wrigley; Chapter 8, Volume 1), and TNC r…
Urban transformations
This essay reflects on the complexity of urban life in Karachi by exploring the politics of planning and community building in its urbanizing periphery. The periphery is an agrarian-pastoral stretch and sparsely populated region where villages (goths) were given usufruct rights during British rule. During General Pervez Musharraf’s (1999–2007) post-9/11, post-liberalization and decentralization phase, this vast expanse was subdivided and administ…
Negotiating new conjunctures of citizenship
In this article, I examine aspects of recent shifts in Pakistani citizenship norms and the implications for migrant populations. In doing so, I investigate how the coalescing of national security concerns with broader issues of immigration has brought 'illegal' migrants like the Burmese-Rohingya and Bangladeshis into the state's documented embrace. My purpose is threefold: to record the modalities of change through the discourse of 'illegality' w…
State Power, Civic Participation and the Urban Frontier
A martial state's neoliberal policies opened the nation's frontiers to new forms of globalization. This article investigates the political process that undergirded the military and global capital's sequestration of common land in Karachi and the concomitant contestation by a key civil society organization. Using Foucault's conception of sovereignty and government as an assemblage of authority and strategies of rationalization, this paper analyses…
Producing cosmopolitan Karachi
Pakistan’s urban transformations are rarely discussed in relation to its changing political-economic conjunctures and new aesthetic sensibilities. Over the past decade, Pakistan’s leading metropolis, Karachi, has witnessed the impact of numerous projects that have sought to mould a new avatar backed by corporatist visions of a world-class city. These configurations articulate not only a new architectural aesthetic but also a state-nationalist vis…
Without water, there is no life’
This article provides new insights into the politics of water provisioning in Karachi’s informal settlements, where water shortages and contaminations have pushed ordinary citizens to live on the knife edge of water scarcity. We turn our attention to the everyday practices that involve gendered insecurities of water in Karachi, which has been Pakistan’s security laboratory for decades. We explore four shifting security logics that strongly contri…
Gender, global terror, and everyday violence in urban Pakistan
Research assistants, reflexivity and the politics of fieldwork in urban Pakistan
In this paper, we discuss the politics of fieldwork in urban Pakistan and in doing so draw attention to the role of research assistants (RAs) in the production of knowledge. The discussion explores how the roles, reflexivity and positionality of our three Muslim female RAs adds depth to our understanding of fieldwork in a culturally and politically charged urban setting where everyday violence combined with wealth asymmetries and anxieties over r…
Hot climates in urban South Asia
Although the climate has admittedly always been hot and humid in cities like Karachi, increasingly hotter temperatures are exacerbating the impact of heat on informal, precariously employed outdoor workers such as street vendors, guards and rickshaw drivers, who must negotiate their right and access to shade at the everyday scale. Recalling Mike Davis’ radical, political claim that shade is an inalienable human right, this paper proposes that few…
From one flooding crisis to the next
Every few years, Karachi floods during the summer monsoon. The flooding brings latent manoeuvrings by political actors looking to establish their hold over the city to the surface. Politicians, urban administrators, and relevant state and non-state institutions blame historical planning failures, informal and illegal constructions, institutional conflict, incapable municipal governance, and widespread corruption for the flooding. They move quickl…
South Asian Urban Climates
This Interventions essay presents 14 stories of, and positions on, urban climates in South Asia. The authors analyze the terms 'mahaul,' 'mausam,' and 'aab-o-hawa' as critical concepts to conceptualize climate in its political, social, historical, atmospheric, ecological, material, sensory, and embodied registers. The stories connect concerns about broader structural conditions ('mahaul'); local and lived experiences in different temporal registe…
Re-imagining Inclusive Urban Futures for Transformation
Asian mobilities and state governance at the geographic margins
This article's central concern is to consider the geographic 'margins' in relationship to state governance in Pakistan. In doing so, it gestures toward wider theoretical lessons that can be drawn through ethnographic explorations of Karachi's periphery and of Pak-Iran border towns such as Taftan located in the province of Baluchistan. Central to the discussion is the idea of mobility. The article considers three different types of mobility across…
The globalization of retailing (2 Volumes)
Scholarly debates on contemporary globalization processes have focused primarily on manufacturing systems and been inattentive to the transformative role of retail distribution. This has happened even though retail industry transnational corporations (TNCs) such as Carrefour and Wal-Mart emerged in the late 1990s as major global firms with market capitalizations that dwarfed their manufacturing TNC rivals (Wrigley; Chapter 8, Volume 1), and TNC r…
State Power, Civic Participation and the Urban Frontier
A martial state's neoliberal policies opened the nation's frontiers to new forms of globalization. This article investigates the political process that undergirded the military and global capital's sequestration of common land in Karachi and the concomitant contestation by a key civil society organization. Using Foucault's conception of sovereignty and government as an assemblage of authority and strategies of rationalization, this paper analyses…
Urban transformations
This essay reflects on the complexity of urban life in Karachi by exploring the politics of planning and community building in its urbanizing periphery. The periphery is an agrarian-pastoral stretch and sparsely populated region where villages (goths) were given usufruct rights during British rule. During General Pervez Musharraf’s (1999–2007) post-9/11, post-liberalization and decentralization phase, this vast expanse was subdivided and administ…
Negotiating new conjunctures of citizenship
In this article, I examine aspects of recent shifts in Pakistani citizenship norms and the implications for migrant populations. In doing so, I investigate how the coalescing of national security concerns with broader issues of immigration has brought 'illegal' migrants like the Burmese-Rohingya and Bangladeshis into the state's documented embrace. My purpose is threefold: to record the modalities of change through the discourse of 'illegality' w…
The postcolonial city in S outh A sia
As a colonial invention, K arachi embodies the dynamics of postcolonial movement, diasporic populations, class inequality, new aspirations and abrasions, and a radical assortment of ethnicities and cultures. While K arachi remains a space where relations of power established during British colonial rule linger, it is also a site where new structures of power and a politics of identity have been negotiated and autochthonous claims contested. In th…
Producing cosmopolitan Karachi
Pakistan’s urban transformations are rarely discussed in relation to its changing political-economic conjunctures and new aesthetic sensibilities. Over the past decade, Pakistan’s leading metropolis, Karachi, has witnessed the impact of numerous projects that have sought to mould a new avatar backed by corporatist visions of a world-class city. These configurations articulate not only a new architectural aesthetic but also a state-nationalist vis…
Islamabad and the Politics of International Development in Pakistan
Laurent Gayer, Karachi
Is Karachi an anarchic metropolis? Laurent Gayer, a research fellow at the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), posits an answer to this and other questions in his book Karachi: Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City, which explores the multifaceted political and criminal violence that undergirds state-society dynamics in one of Asia’s fastest growing cities. With an estimated population of 21 million, Karachi is Pa…
Re-imagining Inclusive Urban Futures for Transformation
Asian mobilities and state governance at the geographic margins
This article's central concern is to consider the geographic 'margins' in relationship to state governance in Pakistan. In doing so, it gestures toward wider theoretical lessons that can be drawn through ethnographic explorations of Karachi's periphery and of Pak-Iran border towns such as Taftan located in the province of Baluchistan. Central to the discussion is the idea of mobility. The article considers three different types of mobility across…
Research assistants, reflexivity and the politics of fieldwork in urban Pakistan
In this paper, we discuss the politics of fieldwork in urban Pakistan and in doing so draw attention to the role of research assistants (RAs) in the production of knowledge. The discussion explores how the roles, reflexivity and positionality of our three Muslim female RAs adds depth to our understanding of fieldwork in a culturally and politically charged urban setting where everyday violence combined with wealth asymmetries and anxieties over r…
Gender, global terror, and everyday violence in urban Pakistan
Intersectional coproduction and infrastructural violence
The delivery of projects for the coproduction of services raises multiple questions about how different structural barriers prevent and hinder the participation of various sectors of the population. Intersectionality theory provides a critical lens to examine the delivery of such coproduction projects to refine any strategies to include vulnerable perspectives or perspectives that get silenced by existing hierarchies. This paper presents an inter…
Without water, there is no life’
This article provides new insights into the politics of water provisioning in Karachi’s informal settlements, where water shortages and contaminations have pushed ordinary citizens to live on the knife edge of water scarcity. We turn our attention to the everyday practices that involve gendered insecurities of water in Karachi, which has been Pakistan’s security laboratory for decades. We explore four shifting security logics that strongly contri…
South Asian Urban Climates
This Interventions essay presents 14 stories of, and positions on, urban climates in South Asia. The authors analyze the terms 'mahaul,' 'mausam,' and 'aab-o-hawa' as critical concepts to conceptualize climate in its political, social, historical, atmospheric, ecological, material, sensory, and embodied registers. The stories connect concerns about broader structural conditions ('mahaul'); local and lived experiences in different temporal registe…
Hot climates in urban South Asia
Although the climate has admittedly always been hot and humid in cities like Karachi, increasingly hotter temperatures are exacerbating the impact of heat on informal, precariously employed outdoor workers such as street vendors, guards and rickshaw drivers, who must negotiate their right and access to shade at the everyday scale. Recalling Mike Davis’ radical, political claim that shade is an inalienable human right, this paper proposes that few…
The atmospheres of massiveness
In this introduction to the special issue on massive urbanisation, the collective that has prepared this issue reviews the thinking and experiences that have been important to them. The reflections centre on the use of 'massive' in Jamaican patois, where it has two countervailing meanings. On the one hand, it means an inordinate lack of sensitivity to the real conditions taking place, a sense of extreme self-inflation beyond reason. On the other,…
From one flooding crisis to the next
Every few years, Karachi floods during the summer monsoon. The flooding brings latent manoeuvrings by political actors looking to establish their hold over the city to the surface. Politicians, urban administrators, and relevant state and non-state institutions blame historical planning failures, informal and illegal constructions, institutional conflict, incapable municipal governance, and widespread corruption for the flooding. They move quickl…
The Politics of Extreme Heat in Urban South Asia
Home to a quarter of the world’s population, South Asia is at the forefront of extreme heat. The politics of extreme heat in South Asia involves the social implications of its effects on poor and vulnerable populations, especially those living in urban low-income and informal settlements. In Pakistan, extreme heat is the most overlooked dynamic in the broader discourse on climate change. Unless we recognize how histories of exclusion have shaped …
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