Azam Sarwar
Biographic Data
| ID | 316547 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Azam Sarwar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Azam |
| FAMILY NAME | Sarwar |
| SIGNATURE | SARWAR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Riphah International University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6895-5634 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Online othering and epistememic violence against the Pakistani Khwajasara community: Jostling for digital interstitial space
Although the 2018 Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act granted legal recognition to the Khwajasara community in Pakistan, Pakistani society has yet to accept their gendered identity. This paper studies how digital culture in Pakistan condemns the Khawajasara community to a state of mutism and genderlessness through gendered and epistemic violence. Drawing on Gayatri Spivak’s notion of epistemic violence and expanding it through what we …
The Pakistani Cinema and the 1971 War: The Politics of Denialism
This paper addresses an ideological construction of denialism in Pakistani cinema, which primarily focuses on the post-1971 war refutations through affirmative interpretations of history. Previously, Pakistani cinema’s recent development and evolution have been appraised and praised for breaking free from the traditional paradigm. The recent development of denialism in Pakistani cinema remains ignored but offers the opportunity to deconstruct and…
Transposing of the Cognitive-Centered Space to Marginal in Mohsin Hamid’s The Last White Man
Cognition always mirrors human psychology; the more it is acknowledged, the more it highlights human behavior. The individual's ‘cognitive space’ in Western society is entangled and has broken away to worsen. People of color in the West are going through the stereotypical pandemonium of racially discriminatory remarks. The bewilderingly baffled racial incidents jeopardize the identity of the people of color. Each day in the West, people are curio…
Rehumanizing Khwajasaras through children’s comics
Khwajasaras’ recognition crisis and unacceptability in Pakistani society seem to be worsening even though The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act of 2018 was passed to confer fundamental human rights on the khwajasara community of Pakistan. Transphobic discourses – memes and jokes, being some of the modern forms of epistemic violence and denialism – have further condemned the khwajasara community to a state of subalternity. This paper …
Telling the past – the history of victimization: A post-conflict reading of Sorayya Khan’s Noor
Disinformation and Misinterpretation: Deconstructing the Politics of Denialism on Social Media in Pakistan through Islamic Feminism
Social media disinformation and misinterpretation of Islamic teachings about women's rights in Pakistan undermine Muslim women's endeavor to achieve gender equality. We argue that religio-patriarchal posts and memes circulating on social media misinterpret Islamic teachings regarding women's gender rights, deny feminism, perpetuate patriarchy, and undermine feminist activism in the conservative Islamic ideological nation-state. Drawing upon Islam…
Nihilopolitical erasure and resistance of British-born young Muslim women in Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire
Solidifying interstitial space (the third gender) for hijra/khwajasara through Islamic feminist hermeneutics: A trans inclusive approach
Living ghosts and the Laapata: The episode of genocide continuum in Pakistani art
Transgression and transcendence in Shoaib Mansoor’s feminist trilogy
This article examines Shoaib Mansoor’s cult feminist trilogy—Khuda Kay Liye (2007), Bol (2011), Verna (2017)—to demonstrate how his transgressive heroines transgress myths of femininity, for example, those pertaining to Otherness, division, and the eternal feminine. Mansoor features transgressive heroines who transcend the patriarchal boundaries structured to contain them and challenge the voice of male authority. His heroines’ transgressions thu…
Semiotics of Exile in Photography, Intersectional Racism and Epistemic Violence in Natasha Trethewey
Breaking free from patriarchal appropriation of sacred texts: An Islamic feminist critique of Bol
This paper is focused on Shoaib Mansoor’s feminist film, Bol (2011), seen as a commentary on religious “absolute explanatory schemes.”11 Absolute explanatory schemes refer to the fixed meanings/interpretations developed by absolute systems of thought—patriarchy being one such—that become the final arbiters of truth and reality (Panza & Gale, 2008 Panza, C., & Gale, G. (2008). Existentialism for dummies. Wiley Publishing, Inc. [Google Scholar]). A…
Breaking free from patriarchal appropriation of sacred texts: An Islamic feminist critique of Bol
This paper is focused on Shoaib Mansoor’s feminist film, Bol (2011), seen as a commentary on religious “absolute explanatory schemes.”11 Absolute explanatory schemes refer to the fixed meanings/interpretations developed by absolute systems of thought—patriarchy being one such—that become the final arbiters of truth and reality (Panza & Gale, 2008 Panza, C., & Gale, G. (2008). Existentialism for dummies. Wiley Publishing, Inc. [Google Scholar]). A…
Telling the past – the history of victimization: A post-conflict reading of Sorayya Khan’s Noor
Solidifying interstitial space (the third gender) for hijra/khwajasara through Islamic feminist hermeneutics: A trans inclusive approach
Transgression and transcendence in Shoaib Mansoor’s feminist trilogy
This article examines Shoaib Mansoor’s cult feminist trilogy—Khuda Kay Liye (2007), Bol (2011), Verna (2017)—to demonstrate how his transgressive heroines transgress myths of femininity, for example, those pertaining to Otherness, division, and the eternal feminine. Mansoor features transgressive heroines who transcend the patriarchal boundaries structured to contain them and challenge the voice of male authority. His heroines’ transgressions thu…
Breaking free from patriarchal appropriation of sacred texts: An Islamic feminist critique of Bol
This paper is focused on Shoaib Mansoor’s feminist film, Bol (2011), seen as a commentary on religious “absolute explanatory schemes.”11 Absolute explanatory schemes refer to the fixed meanings/interpretations developed by absolute systems of thought—patriarchy being one such—that become the final arbiters of truth and reality (Panza & Gale, 2008 Panza, C., & Gale, G. (2008). Existentialism for dummies. Wiley Publishing, Inc. [Google Scholar]). A…
Transgression and transcendence in Shoaib Mansoor’s feminist trilogy
This article examines Shoaib Mansoor’s cult feminist trilogy—Khuda Kay Liye (2007), Bol (2011), Verna (2017)—to demonstrate how his transgressive heroines transgress myths of femininity, for example, those pertaining to Otherness, division, and the eternal feminine. Mansoor features transgressive heroines who transcend the patriarchal boundaries structured to contain them and challenge the voice of male authority. His heroines’ transgressions thu…
Semiotics of Exile in Photography, Intersectional Racism and Epistemic Violence in Natasha Trethewey
Solidifying interstitial space (the third gender) for hijra/khwajasara through Islamic feminist hermeneutics: A trans inclusive approach
Living ghosts and the Laapata: The episode of genocide continuum in Pakistani art
Transposing of the Cognitive-Centered Space to Marginal in Mohsin Hamid’s The Last White Man
Cognition always mirrors human psychology; the more it is acknowledged, the more it highlights human behavior. The individual's ‘cognitive space’ in Western society is entangled and has broken away to worsen. People of color in the West are going through the stereotypical pandemonium of racially discriminatory remarks. The bewilderingly baffled racial incidents jeopardize the identity of the people of color. Each day in the West, people are curio…
Rehumanizing Khwajasaras through children’s comics
Khwajasaras’ recognition crisis and unacceptability in Pakistani society seem to be worsening even though The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act of 2018 was passed to confer fundamental human rights on the khwajasara community of Pakistan. Transphobic discourses – memes and jokes, being some of the modern forms of epistemic violence and denialism – have further condemned the khwajasara community to a state of subalternity. This paper …
Telling the past – the history of victimization: A post-conflict reading of Sorayya Khan’s Noor
Disinformation and Misinterpretation: Deconstructing the Politics of Denialism on Social Media in Pakistan through Islamic Feminism
Social media disinformation and misinterpretation of Islamic teachings about women's rights in Pakistan undermine Muslim women's endeavor to achieve gender equality. We argue that religio-patriarchal posts and memes circulating on social media misinterpret Islamic teachings regarding women's gender rights, deny feminism, perpetuate patriarchy, and undermine feminist activism in the conservative Islamic ideological nation-state. Drawing upon Islam…
Nihilopolitical erasure and resistance of British-born young Muslim women in Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire
Online othering and epistememic violence against the Pakistani Khwajasara community: Jostling for digital interstitial space
Although the 2018 Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act granted legal recognition to the Khwajasara community in Pakistan, Pakistani society has yet to accept their gendered identity. This paper studies how digital culture in Pakistan condemns the Khawajasara community to a state of mutism and genderlessness through gendered and epistemic violence. Drawing on Gayatri Spivak’s notion of epistemic violence and expanding it through what we …
The Pakistani Cinema and the 1971 War: The Politics of Denialism
This paper addresses an ideological construction of denialism in Pakistani cinema, which primarily focuses on the post-1971 war refutations through affirmative interpretations of history. Previously, Pakistani cinema’s recent development and evolution have been appraised and praised for breaking free from the traditional paradigm. The recent development of denialism in Pakistani cinema remains ignored but offers the opportunity to deconstruct and…
Sociology (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (5 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 works) · Islam (3 works)