Nichola Khan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594792 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nichola Khan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nichola |
| FAMILY NAME | Khan |
| SIGNATURE | KHAN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Brighton |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7624-5969 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Moving impossible scenes through quantum diffraction
Pat Noxolo offers us deep provocation for thinking through pathways of Black geographies, Caribbean creative practice, and quantum geographies that are ‘always already’ climate changed—by the brutalities of the Plantationocene, early cancerous deaths, lead atmospheres and other earth-body impingements—and, I might add, migrant squatter encampments, ghettoized city landscapes, and spontaneous fires that erupt at sites of massacres where human rema…
Moving through migrant psychiatry
This perspective reflects on the relationship between migrant psychiatry and asylum seeking in Europe, drawing on anthropological fieldwork in a public migrant psychiatry clinic and mobile psychiatry teams serving asylum seekers, refused asylum seekers, and homeless migrants in France. Restrictive EU migration policies have produced protracted forms of "wandering" that may last for years; a sedentarist emphasis in national migrant services has ge…
All the vista we cannot see
These five prose poems engage French migrant psychiatry as an ethnographic object in the scene of wandering. They draw from observations of psychiatric consultations and scenes of migrant life in Paris, following ways homelessness and asylum refusal move through migrant life and clinical encounters. Poem (I) reflects on a clinical interview with a mother separated from her son at the border with Turkey, her protective silence; (II) reprises the c…
Colonial trauma
This article analyzes trauma as an interplay of mass violence connecting imperial occupation in British Hong Kong, and an Anglo-Chinese family in England. It takes Devereux's concept of countertransference to interrogate how killings in the author's family reverberate as traumatic transferences in fieldwork engaging the transgenerational violence of Partition in postcolonial Pakistan. Routing through transferences, it advances a comparative analy…
Breathing With Historical Trauma
Conclusion
Women’s Intimacies After Empire
Breathing as Transgenerational Transmission
The Breath of Empire
Breath of Empire
Pakistan’s Fragmented Megacity
A new book by a journalist follows five interlocutors through Karachi’s recent history of rapid expansion, corruption, violence, and civil society efforts
Breathing as Politics and Generational Transmission
The article draws on biographical, autoethnographic and experimental forms of writing in order to reflect on the intergenerational transmission of war and displacement in the late colonial period of British rule in Hong Kong, and Japanese occupation. Intimate histories across three generations reveal experiences typically neglected by customary Chinese or colonial readings of the period. Specifically, the article privileges breathing as a site fo…
Chronic hepatitis and HIV risks amongst Pakistani migrant men in a French suburb and insights into health promotion interventions
Background Seine-Saint-Denis is a deprived departement (French administrative unit) in the North-East of Paris, France, hosting the majority of South Asian migrants in France. In recent years, the number of migrants from Pakistan, which has a high prevalence of hepatitis C globally, increased. As a corollary, this study addressed the high proportion of Pakistani patients in the infectious diseases clinic of a local hospital, diagnosed with hepati…
Sindh in Karachi
From imperial ‘unhappy valley’, to decapitated province, commercial capital, and 21st century megacity, this article reflects on relations of separateness and connectivity between Sindh and its capital city Karachi. These culminated in Pakistan’s post-Independence years, in official and political language, governances of national, provincial and city division, and political rhetoric and violence. The article asks what else might be uncovered abou…
The im/mobilities of 'sometimes-migrating' for abortion
This paper furthers the concept of im/mobilities through an investigation of the reproductive mobilities of women migrating for abortion from Ireland (north and south) to Great Britain. Where more often the focus of reproductive mobilities concerns the movement of people and matter in order to reproduce, there is less (although some) attention to movement aligned with the prevention of reproduction. We consider the variegated im/mobilities of con…
Are migration routes disease transmission routes? Understanding Hepatitis and HIV transmission amongst undocumented Pakistani migrants and asylum seekers in a Parisian suburb
Drawing on hospital-based interviews and fieldwork in a deprived Parisian suburb, this paper analyses the spatio-temporal dynamics of risk, exposure, and mobilities in individual stories of undocumented Pakistani male migrants, and asylum seekers-receiving treatment for single and combined diagnoses of HIV, and Hepatitis C and B. Inviting alignments with the 'sexual' turn in mobility studies, it prioritises the interface of all-male undocumented …
The taste of freedom
This study follows UK Afghan migrants on a return visit to Northwest Pakistan. Combining theorizations of mobility, liminality, and commensality, it takes the picnic trip (chakar) as a little-explored cultural lens through which to analyse symbolic formations of freedom, the shaping of Pakhtun transnational labour, and social hierarchies constituted through migration and return. As potent imaginary sites of remembering and forgetting, chakar map …
From refugees to the world stage’
Drawing on the British film Out of the Ashes, and ethnography amongst UK Afghan migrants, this article examines images of war in Afghanistan, the discourse of civilisation and the politics of citizenship – as refracted through the representation (cricket) and praxis (football) of sport. Placing the film in a wider context of discourses that subordinate Afghans to the anachronistic fears or illimitable compassion of audiences of ‘Western’ nations …
A Moving Heart
This article offers a single case study of everyday suffering (khapgan--Pakhto; "feeling down") experienced by one Afghan migrant in the United Kingdom, Zmarai. Single cases may destabilize categories of the political as conventionally institutionalized in relation to Afghan migrants according to such concepts as diaspora, citizenship, refugees, trauma, and culture, etc. Drawing theorizations of the way affects are key to a political economy's an…
Between Spectacle and Banality
This article draws on ethnography and life history interviews conducted in a central Karachi neighbourhood with militants affiliated to Pakistan's student organization, the Islami Jamiat-i-Tuleba. It explores a complex configuration of national and city politics, local processes, family dynamics and individual biography in the trajectories of male youth to some violent jihadist scenes in Pakistan and Afghanistan (c.1986-2006), and raises question…
Are Europe's Migrants Not a Potential Resource
Time and Fantasy in Narratives of Jihad
Time and Fantasy in Narratives of Jihad: The Case of the Islami Jamiat-I-Tuleba in Karachi This article proposes an analytical framework for thinking about violence in the Islami Jamiat-i-Tuleba (IJT), the student organization of Jamaat e Islami (JI), Pakistan's longstanding Islamist party. It prioritises the intersection of the psychic and the social, and the role of politics, history and biography in mediating the modalities, narration and prax…
Violence, Anti-Convention and Desires for Transformation amongst Pakistan's Mohajirs in Karachi
This article investigates practices of militancy amongst young men who became political mercenaries during the (1984-2002) Karachi conflict involving Pakistan's ethno-nationalist Mohajir party, the MQM. It explores the affective domain which emerges out of ethnicized positions on identity, and its role in structuring political subjectivity and violent action. Political killings were not solely driven through class, deprivation or ethnic politics,…
Perspectives on Intergenerational Vulnerability for Adolescents Affected by HIV
The authors address the dynamic role of adolescents affected by HIV and AIDS. They analyse evidence for how intergenerational dynamics interact with HIV-related vulnerability, through the likely influence of being AIDS-affected on vulnerability to HIV infection, and through intergenerational reproductions of structural disadvantages and social determinants of HIV vulnerability. They review evidence of AIDS' impacts on children and of contextual i…
Profiling the politically violent in Pakistan
Empirical evidence relating individualism-collectivism (IC) to sociopolitical factors is still scarce. This survey explores how factors generally purported to represent an Asian society (i.e., collectivism) relate to context-specific characteristics of political groups within that society (i.e., the endorsement of political violence). The city of Karachi in Pakistan has a long history of political, sectarian and criminal violence, economic inequa…
The im/mobilities of 'sometimes-migrating' for abortion
This paper furthers the concept of im/mobilities through an investigation of the reproductive mobilities of women migrating for abortion from Ireland (north and south) to Great Britain. Where more often the focus of reproductive mobilities concerns the movement of people and matter in order to reproduce, there is less (although some) attention to movement aligned with the prevention of reproduction. We consider the variegated im/mobilities of con…
The taste of freedom
This study follows UK Afghan migrants on a return visit to Northwest Pakistan. Combining theorizations of mobility, liminality, and commensality, it takes the picnic trip (chakar) as a little-explored cultural lens through which to analyse symbolic formations of freedom, the shaping of Pakhtun transnational labour, and social hierarchies constituted through migration and return. As potent imaginary sites of remembering and forgetting, chakar map …
A Moving Heart
This article offers a single case study of everyday suffering (khapgan--Pakhto; "feeling down") experienced by one Afghan migrant in the United Kingdom, Zmarai. Single cases may destabilize categories of the political as conventionally institutionalized in relation to Afghan migrants according to such concepts as diaspora, citizenship, refugees, trauma, and culture, etc. Drawing theorizations of the way affects are key to a political economy's an…
Between Spectacle and Banality
This article draws on ethnography and life history interviews conducted in a central Karachi neighbourhood with militants affiliated to Pakistan's student organization, the Islami Jamiat-i-Tuleba. It explores a complex configuration of national and city politics, local processes, family dynamics and individual biography in the trajectories of male youth to some violent jihadist scenes in Pakistan and Afghanistan (c.1986-2006), and raises question…
Are Europe's Migrants Not a Potential Resource
Violence, Anti-Convention and Desires for Transformation amongst Pakistan's Mohajirs in Karachi
This article investigates practices of militancy amongst young men who became political mercenaries during the (1984-2002) Karachi conflict involving Pakistan's ethno-nationalist Mohajir party, the MQM. It explores the affective domain which emerges out of ethnicized positions on identity, and its role in structuring political subjectivity and violent action. Political killings were not solely driven through class, deprivation or ethnic politics,…
Profiling the politically violent in Pakistan
Empirical evidence relating individualism-collectivism (IC) to sociopolitical factors is still scarce. This survey explores how factors generally purported to represent an Asian society (i.e., collectivism) relate to context-specific characteristics of political groups within that society (i.e., the endorsement of political violence). The city of Karachi in Pakistan has a long history of political, sectarian and criminal violence, economic inequa…
From refugees to the world stage’
Drawing on the British film Out of the Ashes, and ethnography amongst UK Afghan migrants, this article examines images of war in Afghanistan, the discourse of civilisation and the politics of citizenship – as refracted through the representation (cricket) and praxis (football) of sport. Placing the film in a wider context of discourses that subordinate Afghans to the anachronistic fears or illimitable compassion of audiences of ‘Western’ nations …
Time and Fantasy in Narratives of Jihad
Time and Fantasy in Narratives of Jihad: The Case of the Islami Jamiat-I-Tuleba in Karachi This article proposes an analytical framework for thinking about violence in the Islami Jamiat-i-Tuleba (IJT), the student organization of Jamaat e Islami (JI), Pakistan's longstanding Islamist party. It prioritises the intersection of the psychic and the social, and the role of politics, history and biography in mediating the modalities, narration and prax…
Perspectives on Intergenerational Vulnerability for Adolescents Affected by HIV
The authors address the dynamic role of adolescents affected by HIV and AIDS. They analyse evidence for how intergenerational dynamics interact with HIV-related vulnerability, through the likely influence of being AIDS-affected on vulnerability to HIV infection, and through intergenerational reproductions of structural disadvantages and social determinants of HIV vulnerability. They review evidence of AIDS' impacts on children and of contextual i…
Profiling the politically violent in Pakistan
Empirical evidence relating individualism-collectivism (IC) to sociopolitical factors is still scarce. This survey explores how factors generally purported to represent an Asian society (i.e., collectivism) relate to context-specific characteristics of political groups within that society (i.e., the endorsement of political violence). The city of Karachi in Pakistan has a long history of political, sectarian and criminal violence, economic inequa…
Perspectives on Intergenerational Vulnerability for Adolescents Affected by HIV
The authors address the dynamic role of adolescents affected by HIV and AIDS. They analyse evidence for how intergenerational dynamics interact with HIV-related vulnerability, through the likely influence of being AIDS-affected on vulnerability to HIV infection, and through intergenerational reproductions of structural disadvantages and social determinants of HIV vulnerability. They review evidence of AIDS' impacts on children and of contextual i…
Time and Fantasy in Narratives of Jihad
Time and Fantasy in Narratives of Jihad: The Case of the Islami Jamiat-I-Tuleba in Karachi This article proposes an analytical framework for thinking about violence in the Islami Jamiat-i-Tuleba (IJT), the student organization of Jamaat e Islami (JI), Pakistan's longstanding Islamist party. It prioritises the intersection of the psychic and the social, and the role of politics, history and biography in mediating the modalities, narration and prax…
Violence, Anti-Convention and Desires for Transformation amongst Pakistan's Mohajirs in Karachi
This article investigates practices of militancy amongst young men who became political mercenaries during the (1984-2002) Karachi conflict involving Pakistan's ethno-nationalist Mohajir party, the MQM. It explores the affective domain which emerges out of ethnicized positions on identity, and its role in structuring political subjectivity and violent action. Political killings were not solely driven through class, deprivation or ethnic politics,…
Are Europe's Migrants Not a Potential Resource
Between Spectacle and Banality
This article draws on ethnography and life history interviews conducted in a central Karachi neighbourhood with militants affiliated to Pakistan's student organization, the Islami Jamiat-i-Tuleba. It explores a complex configuration of national and city politics, local processes, family dynamics and individual biography in the trajectories of male youth to some violent jihadist scenes in Pakistan and Afghanistan (c.1986-2006), and raises question…
From refugees to the world stage’
Drawing on the British film Out of the Ashes, and ethnography amongst UK Afghan migrants, this article examines images of war in Afghanistan, the discourse of civilisation and the politics of citizenship – as refracted through the representation (cricket) and praxis (football) of sport. Placing the film in a wider context of discourses that subordinate Afghans to the anachronistic fears or illimitable compassion of audiences of ‘Western’ nations …
A Moving Heart
This article offers a single case study of everyday suffering (khapgan--Pakhto; "feeling down") experienced by one Afghan migrant in the United Kingdom, Zmarai. Single cases may destabilize categories of the political as conventionally institutionalized in relation to Afghan migrants according to such concepts as diaspora, citizenship, refugees, trauma, and culture, etc. Drawing theorizations of the way affects are key to a political economy's an…
The taste of freedom
This study follows UK Afghan migrants on a return visit to Northwest Pakistan. Combining theorizations of mobility, liminality, and commensality, it takes the picnic trip (chakar) as a little-explored cultural lens through which to analyse symbolic formations of freedom, the shaping of Pakhtun transnational labour, and social hierarchies constituted through migration and return. As potent imaginary sites of remembering and forgetting, chakar map …
Breathing as Politics and Generational Transmission
The article draws on biographical, autoethnographic and experimental forms of writing in order to reflect on the intergenerational transmission of war and displacement in the late colonial period of British rule in Hong Kong, and Japanese occupation. Intimate histories across three generations reveal experiences typically neglected by customary Chinese or colonial readings of the period. Specifically, the article privileges breathing as a site fo…
Chronic hepatitis and HIV risks amongst Pakistani migrant men in a French suburb and insights into health promotion interventions
Background Seine-Saint-Denis is a deprived departement (French administrative unit) in the North-East of Paris, France, hosting the majority of South Asian migrants in France. In recent years, the number of migrants from Pakistan, which has a high prevalence of hepatitis C globally, increased. As a corollary, this study addressed the high proportion of Pakistani patients in the infectious diseases clinic of a local hospital, diagnosed with hepati…
Sindh in Karachi
From imperial ‘unhappy valley’, to decapitated province, commercial capital, and 21st century megacity, this article reflects on relations of separateness and connectivity between Sindh and its capital city Karachi. These culminated in Pakistan’s post-Independence years, in official and political language, governances of national, provincial and city division, and political rhetoric and violence. The article asks what else might be uncovered abou…
The im/mobilities of 'sometimes-migrating' for abortion
This paper furthers the concept of im/mobilities through an investigation of the reproductive mobilities of women migrating for abortion from Ireland (north and south) to Great Britain. Where more often the focus of reproductive mobilities concerns the movement of people and matter in order to reproduce, there is less (although some) attention to movement aligned with the prevention of reproduction. We consider the variegated im/mobilities of con…
Are migration routes disease transmission routes? Understanding Hepatitis and HIV transmission amongst undocumented Pakistani migrants and asylum seekers in a Parisian suburb
Drawing on hospital-based interviews and fieldwork in a deprived Parisian suburb, this paper analyses the spatio-temporal dynamics of risk, exposure, and mobilities in individual stories of undocumented Pakistani male migrants, and asylum seekers-receiving treatment for single and combined diagnoses of HIV, and Hepatitis C and B. Inviting alignments with the 'sexual' turn in mobility studies, it prioritises the interface of all-male undocumented …
Breathing With Historical Trauma
Conclusion
Women’s Intimacies After Empire
Breathing as Transgenerational Transmission
The Breath of Empire
Breath of Empire
Pakistan’s Fragmented Megacity
A new book by a journalist follows five interlocutors through Karachi’s recent history of rapid expansion, corruption, violence, and civil society efforts
Colonial trauma
This article analyzes trauma as an interplay of mass violence connecting imperial occupation in British Hong Kong, and an Anglo-Chinese family in England. It takes Devereux's concept of countertransference to interrogate how killings in the author's family reverberate as traumatic transferences in fieldwork engaging the transgenerational violence of Partition in postcolonial Pakistan. Routing through transferences, it advances a comparative analy…
Moving impossible scenes through quantum diffraction
Pat Noxolo offers us deep provocation for thinking through pathways of Black geographies, Caribbean creative practice, and quantum geographies that are ‘always already’ climate changed—by the brutalities of the Plantationocene, early cancerous deaths, lead atmospheres and other earth-body impingements—and, I might add, migrant squatter encampments, ghettoized city landscapes, and spontaneous fires that erupt at sites of massacres where human rema…
Moving through migrant psychiatry
This perspective reflects on the relationship between migrant psychiatry and asylum seeking in Europe, drawing on anthropological fieldwork in a public migrant psychiatry clinic and mobile psychiatry teams serving asylum seekers, refused asylum seekers, and homeless migrants in France. Restrictive EU migration policies have produced protracted forms of "wandering" that may last for years; a sedentarist emphasis in national migrant services has ge…
All the vista we cannot see
These five prose poems engage French migrant psychiatry as an ethnographic object in the scene of wandering. They draw from observations of psychiatric consultations and scenes of migrant life in Paris, following ways homelessness and asylum refusal move through migrant life and clinical encounters. Poem (I) reflects on a clinical interview with a mother separated from her son at the border with Turkey, her protective silence; (II) reprises the c…
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