Zehra Aftab
Biographic Data
| ID | 4211035 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zehra Aftab |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zehra |
| FAMILY NAME | Aftab |
| SIGNATURE | AFTAB Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Prince Muhammad University, Saudi Arabia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Mobility for What? Space, Time, Labor, and Gender in South Asia
Questions about women's safety have gained importance in both India and Pakistan, as gendered and sexual violence in public spaces has risen. This motivates questions about the presence and mobility of women in public spaces in South Asia and their determinants. In this paper, we extend feminist scholarship on space and time, social reproduction, classical patriarchy, and the everyday by unpacking the concept of mobility into two new categories: …
The Fall of Urdu and the Triumph of English in Pakistan
In this paper, we investigate both how the use of language in higher education in Pakistan has evolved and why the medium of instruction remains a contested terrain. We focus on the struggle between advocates for the use of Urdu and the use of English in higher education. By examining the repeated failed attempts by high political authorities to replace English with Urdu, we demonstrate the usefulness of evolutionary theories of path-dependent in…
Experimental Evidence on Public Good Behaviour across Pakistan’s Fractured Educational System
This paper investigates how Pakistani higher education students from different social strata act within the context of a game that allows for cooperation and punishment. Findings reveal that both female and male madrassa students are the most generous players. Moreover, there is more gender and social consciousness in male students than female students when deciding to penalise or not. Male madrassa students penalise female students more than mal…
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Experimental Evidence on Public Good Behaviour across Pakistan’s Fractured Educational System
This paper investigates how Pakistani higher education students from different social strata act within the context of a game that allows for cooperation and punishment. Findings reveal that both female and male madrassa students are the most generous players. Moreover, there is more gender and social consciousness in male students than female students when deciding to penalise or not. Male madrassa students penalise female students more than mal…
The Fall of Urdu and the Triumph of English in Pakistan
In this paper, we investigate both how the use of language in higher education in Pakistan has evolved and why the medium of instruction remains a contested terrain. We focus on the struggle between advocates for the use of Urdu and the use of English in higher education. By examining the repeated failed attempts by high political authorities to replace English with Urdu, we demonstrate the usefulness of evolutionary theories of path-dependent in…
Mobility for What? Space, Time, Labor, and Gender in South Asia
Questions about women's safety have gained importance in both India and Pakistan, as gendered and sexual violence in public spaces has risen. This motivates questions about the presence and mobility of women in public spaces in South Asia and their determinants. In this paper, we extend feminist scholarship on space and time, social reproduction, classical patriarchy, and the everyday by unpacking the concept of mobility into two new categories: …
Economics (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Ancient history (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Corruption and Economic Development (1 work) · Demographic economics (1 work) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (1 work) · Economic geography (1 work) · Ethnology (1 work)