Hira Ausaf
Biographic Data
| ID | 4160511 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hira Ausaf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hira |
| FAMILY NAME | Ausaf |
| SIGNATURE | AUSAF H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Management and Technology |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-1945-3011 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Stateness under Disputed Sovereignty
Gilgit–Baltistan (GB) occupies a constitutional limbo. It is administered by Pakistan, yet its legal status remains tied to the Kashmir dispute between Pakistan and India, even as Pakistan has steadily expanded its administrative and developmental incorporation. Drawing on Ayoob’s framework of stateness, we ask how GB’s youth interpret this limbo as a state-building strategy under disputed sovereignty, and what their narratives reveal about the r…
Gilgit-Baltistan
This paper offers a subaltern reading of Gilgit-Baltistan’s (GB) historical trajectory, arguing that the region’s 1947 “liberation” from Dogra rule is an essential foundation for internal self-determination within Pakistan. While conventional accounts often subsume GB into the broader Kashmir dispute, local subaltern perspectives reveal distinct political identities predating colonial and Dogra domination. By reclaiming these marginalized histori…
Pakistan state practices in Gilgit-Baltistan
Aestheticizing the Ambiguity of Gilgit-Baltistan
Context-Bounded Subaltern Realism
Mohammed Ayoob’s subaltern realism argues that postcolonial states’ behavior is shaped by colonial legacies, internal insecurities, and external pressures from major power interventions, as well as from regional disputes. This framework was developed by Ayoob to explain conflict dynamics in the “Third World/postcolonial/developing/Global South” and, more specifically, as Ayoob terms them, subaltern states. This study extends Ayoob’s argument in t…
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Gilgit-Baltistan
This paper offers a subaltern reading of Gilgit-Baltistan’s (GB) historical trajectory, arguing that the region’s 1947 “liberation” from Dogra rule is an essential foundation for internal self-determination within Pakistan. While conventional accounts often subsume GB into the broader Kashmir dispute, local subaltern perspectives reveal distinct political identities predating colonial and Dogra domination. By reclaiming these marginalized histori…
Pakistan state practices in Gilgit-Baltistan
Aestheticizing the Ambiguity of Gilgit-Baltistan
Context-Bounded Subaltern Realism
Mohammed Ayoob’s subaltern realism argues that postcolonial states’ behavior is shaped by colonial legacies, internal insecurities, and external pressures from major power interventions, as well as from regional disputes. This framework was developed by Ayoob to explain conflict dynamics in the “Third World/postcolonial/developing/Global South” and, more specifically, as Ayoob terms them, subaltern states. This study extends Ayoob’s argument in t…
Stateness under Disputed Sovereignty
Gilgit–Baltistan (GB) occupies a constitutional limbo. It is administered by Pakistan, yet its legal status remains tied to the Kashmir dispute between Pakistan and India, even as Pakistan has steadily expanded its administrative and developmental incorporation. Drawing on Ayoob’s framework of stateness, we ask how GB’s youth interpret this limbo as a state-building strategy under disputed sovereignty, and what their narratives reveal about the r…
South Asian Studies and Conflicts (4 works) · South Asian Studies and Diaspora (3 works) · State (computer science (3 works) · Bangladesh Politics, Society, and Development (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (2 works) · Ambiguity (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Argument (complex analysis (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work)