Ayesha Omer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692899 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ayesha Omer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ayesha |
| FAMILY NAME | Omer |
| SIGNATURE | OMER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-8415-5526 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Temporal scale-making
This paper argues that global digital technologies and networks are enacted through temporal scale-making practices whereby ideas and meanings of global connection and mediation become emplaced, legitimized, appropriated, and disrupted by a range of local actors. It focuses on Gwadar’s proposed smart port city as it is configured as a critical node in global networks of trade and communication flows. It demonstrates that a focus on temporal scale…
Mediating the heatwave
In June 2015, amidst soaring temperatures, severe electricity, and water shortages, hundreds collapsed on the streets in Karachi. Emergency wards, morgues, and graveyards became full. Drawing on environmental media studies, infrastructure studies, and urban studies, the 2015 Karachi heatwave created, what I call, “a thermal ecology” that encapsulates shifting material, geophysical, cultural phenomena that comprise life inside a heatwave. I demons…
Coal ground
This paper analyzes the formation of coal energy infrastructure in Pakistan’s Thar Desert as part of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor. This infrastructure comprises an open pit coal mine and thermal power plant that traverses indigenous lifeworlds. My analysis takes up the subterranean matter of Thar’s Desert – the coal, the sand, the water – and its related social and ecological contexts. I show that decades of technological processes of tes…
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Coal ground
This paper analyzes the formation of coal energy infrastructure in Pakistan’s Thar Desert as part of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor. This infrastructure comprises an open pit coal mine and thermal power plant that traverses indigenous lifeworlds. My analysis takes up the subterranean matter of Thar’s Desert – the coal, the sand, the water – and its related social and ecological contexts. I show that decades of technological processes of tes…
Temporal scale-making
This paper argues that global digital technologies and networks are enacted through temporal scale-making practices whereby ideas and meanings of global connection and mediation become emplaced, legitimized, appropriated, and disrupted by a range of local actors. It focuses on Gwadar’s proposed smart port city as it is configured as a critical node in global networks of trade and communication flows. It demonstrates that a focus on temporal scale…
Mediating the heatwave
In June 2015, amidst soaring temperatures, severe electricity, and water shortages, hundreds collapsed on the streets in Karachi. Emergency wards, morgues, and graveyards became full. Drawing on environmental media studies, infrastructure studies, and urban studies, the 2015 Karachi heatwave created, what I call, “a thermal ecology” that encapsulates shifting material, geophysical, cultural phenomena that comprise life inside a heatwave. I demons…
Ecology (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Indigenous (2 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (2 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Biology (1 works) · Coal (1 works) · Coal mining (1 works) · Contentious politics (1 works) · Futures contract (1 works)