Saba Gul Khattak
Biographic Data
| ID | 351864 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Saba Gul Khattak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Saba Gul |
| FAMILY NAME | Khattak |
| SIGNATURE | KHATTAK S G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sustainable Development Policy Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Women in Local Government
This article looks at women's representation in local government in Pakistan, focusing particularly on the introduction of a quota setting 33 per cent of the seats for women brought in under General Musharraf's Devolution of Power Plan in 2000. The article suggests that establishing a direct correlation between a woman's quota and regime type is problematic. It demonstrates a complex pattern of interaction on the issue by both the military and ci…
Living on the Edges
Adversarial Discourses, Analogous Objectives
Afghan women have been the symbolic target of competing discourses and political strategies. The US-led bombing of Afghanistan used the rhetoric of women's emancipation as a major reason for the attack without pursuing real 'liberation'. The misogynist Taliban discourse, as it was promulgated in the Pakistan-based refugee camps and heavily funded by the western world, marked a severe deterioration in Afghan women's rights. After the US-led milita…
Afghan Women
Security Discourses and the State in Pakistan
States use many discursive strategies to produce politically advantageous meanings in public life. The tendency to impose hierarchy upon binary divisions plays an especially crucial role in constructing conventional claims about security. Distinctions between inside and outside, private and public, and domestic and foreign are invariably invoked in this realm, and shape the metaphorical, gendered, and more broadly cultural context in which policy…
Adversarial Discourses, Analogous Objectives
Afghan women have been the symbolic target of competing discourses and political strategies. The US-led bombing of Afghanistan used the rhetoric of women's emancipation as a major reason for the attack without pursuing real 'liberation'. The misogynist Taliban discourse, as it was promulgated in the Pakistan-based refugee camps and heavily funded by the western world, marked a severe deterioration in Afghan women's rights. After the US-led milita…
Security Discourses and the State in Pakistan
States use many discursive strategies to produce politically advantageous meanings in public life. The tendency to impose hierarchy upon binary divisions plays an especially crucial role in constructing conventional claims about security. Distinctions between inside and outside, private and public, and domestic and foreign are invariably invoked in this realm, and shape the metaphorical, gendered, and more broadly cultural context in which policy…
Living on the Edges
Security Discourses and the State in Pakistan
States use many discursive strategies to produce politically advantageous meanings in public life. The tendency to impose hierarchy upon binary divisions plays an especially crucial role in constructing conventional claims about security. Distinctions between inside and outside, private and public, and domestic and foreign are invariably invoked in this realm, and shape the metaphorical, gendered, and more broadly cultural context in which policy…
Afghan Women
Adversarial Discourses, Analogous Objectives
Afghan women have been the symbolic target of competing discourses and political strategies. The US-led bombing of Afghanistan used the rhetoric of women's emancipation as a major reason for the attack without pursuing real 'liberation'. The misogynist Taliban discourse, as it was promulgated in the Pakistan-based refugee camps and heavily funded by the western world, marked a severe deterioration in Afghan women's rights. After the US-led milita…
Living on the Edges
Women in Local Government
This article looks at women's representation in local government in Pakistan, focusing particularly on the introduction of a quota setting 33 per cent of the seats for women brought in under General Musharraf's Devolution of Power Plan in 2000. The article suggests that establishing a direct correlation between a woman's quota and regime type is problematic. It demonstrates a complex pattern of interaction on the issue by both the military and ci…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Afghan (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Ideology (2 works)