Nishat Awan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5125836 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nishat Awan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nishat |
| FAMILY NAME | Awan |
| SIGNATURE | AWAN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5306-5057 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Repair as Stitching: On Hope and Reimagination in Gaza
By drawing on the work of the Architects for Gaza collective, this article offers a critical examination of the notion of repair within the fractured context of Gaza, a city that has endured repeated cycles of destruction and systematic erasure. The recurrent violence enacted on this geography has been integral to the tactical denial of the Gazans’ right to home, street, and neighborhood, as a part of the broader colonial project aimed at dismant…
Academic Citizenship and Intellectual Care: Reviews Editors in Conversation
Edwin Coomasaru:What is at stake in reviewing as an intellectual practice? This conversation will consider what it means to contribute to reviews as a scholarly field, the ways in which the role o
Weaving worlds
This themed issue of the Journal of Visual Culture is concerned with how to think and work across what might at first sight seem to be incommensurate worlds. The articles assembled here think through questions of evidence, affect and speculation, and how these operate within our current economy of knowledge production through the use of practices such as mapping, modelling, sensing and storytelling. While these practices are not new, they have be…
Vignette as a way of seeing
A vignette can be considered a snapshot of a situation, or a moment in time that in its framing and composition might offer insights into more complex relations. In many ways, a vignette is a construction, a way of giving prominence to that which is precious or of significance. In this article, the authors consider the vignette as a form of ethical mediation and an intervention into conversations that are never fully whole. Their reflections have…
To Know No Nation Will Be Home Until One Does
Shahzia Sikander is a Pakistani-American artist whose multimedia practice subverts and expands the conventional edges, scales, histories, and methods of Central- and South-Asian painting traditions
Infidelities
“Infidelities” emerged as a response to a series of simple questions.What does it mean to be loyal? To a discipline, to its institutions, to a practice, to yourself...?We came together for this call
Digital witnessing and the erasure of the racialized subject
Humanitarian agencies are relying more frequently on remote sensing, satellite imagery and social media to produce accounts of violence. Their analysis aims at creating more compelling narratives for the court of law or of public opinion and has contributed towards a forensic turn, thus complicating the already fraught relationship between the practice of witnessing and political subjects. This article explores how digital witnessing allows us to…
Horizonless Worlds: Navigating the Persistent Present of the Border Regime
Through discussing the persistent present of displacement the essay argues that a politics of time is being mobilised as a biopolitical means of control in migrant lives. This can be seen in the circularity of displacement, deportation and return, where waiting and disorientation become forms of control. The discussion emerges from field research and interviews I carried out in the villages of north Punjab, Pakistan, where many people are caught …
Performing on the streets: Infrastructures of subaltern resistance in Pakistan
This article explores infrastructures of subaltern resistance in Pakistan through a focus on spatial and performative modes and across a number of historical and contemporary examples. I start with the figure of the puppet, tracing it historically as an example of how culturally specific modes of dissent have evolved from a colonial to a postcolonial context, and further into a neoliberal space. I then analyse the practice of ‘wall chalking’, whi…
Amy Brandzel, Against citizenship: The violence of the normative
Review of Amy Brandzel, Against Citizenship: The Violence of the Normative (Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2016)
Digital Narratives and Witnessing: The Ethics of Engaging with Places at a Distance
This article explores some of the geographies of crisis and conflict that have become increasingly visible through the use of digital technologies. It attends to the visual politics embedded within such images, whether these are photographs and videos shared through social media or maps produced on platforms such as Google Earth. It also discusses recent practices of spatial analysis that use a forensic approach. Through focusing on the Pakistani…
Introduction to Border Topologies
This “Border Topologies” themed section draws a series of texts that explore what design and artistic research could contribute to an understanding of border conditions in a context of rising inequalities, conflict, and climate change. The common aim of the articles is to interrogate contemporary borders through the practices that produce them by focusing on how the border appears and reappears at different scales, in unexpected places and config…
Mapping Migrant Territories as Topological Deformations of Space
Our research uses the concept of “territories” to describe the production of migrant space. The article describes a project based in London where the everyday practice of walking is used to map migrant territories, which are conceptualized as dispersed and overlapping, causing topological deformations to the actual lived space. We interrogate these deformations through focusing on the micro-scale and the everyday, mapping them as “scapes” and “sp…
Mapping Migrant Territories as Topological Deformations of Space
Our research uses the concept of “territories” to describe the production of migrant space. The article describes a project based in London where the everyday practice of walking is used to map migrant territories, which are conceptualized as dispersed and overlapping, causing topological deformations to the actual lived space. We interrogate these deformations through focusing on the micro-scale and the everyday, mapping them as “scapes” and “sp…
Digital Narratives and Witnessing: The Ethics of Engaging with Places at a Distance
This article explores some of the geographies of crisis and conflict that have become increasingly visible through the use of digital technologies. It attends to the visual politics embedded within such images, whether these are photographs and videos shared through social media or maps produced on platforms such as Google Earth. It also discusses recent practices of spatial analysis that use a forensic approach. Through focusing on the Pakistani…
Performing on the streets: Infrastructures of subaltern resistance in Pakistan
This article explores infrastructures of subaltern resistance in Pakistan through a focus on spatial and performative modes and across a number of historical and contemporary examples. I start with the figure of the puppet, tracing it historically as an example of how culturally specific modes of dissent have evolved from a colonial to a postcolonial context, and further into a neoliberal space. I then analyse the practice of ‘wall chalking’, whi…
Introduction to Border Topologies
This “Border Topologies” themed section draws a series of texts that explore what design and artistic research could contribute to an understanding of border conditions in a context of rising inequalities, conflict, and climate change. The common aim of the articles is to interrogate contemporary borders through the practices that produce them by focusing on how the border appears and reappears at different scales, in unexpected places and config…
Mapping Migrant Territories as Topological Deformations of Space
Our research uses the concept of “territories” to describe the production of migrant space. The article describes a project based in London where the everyday practice of walking is used to map migrant territories, which are conceptualized as dispersed and overlapping, causing topological deformations to the actual lived space. We interrogate these deformations through focusing on the micro-scale and the everyday, mapping them as “scapes” and “sp…
Digital Narratives and Witnessing: The Ethics of Engaging with Places at a Distance
This article explores some of the geographies of crisis and conflict that have become increasingly visible through the use of digital technologies. It attends to the visual politics embedded within such images, whether these are photographs and videos shared through social media or maps produced on platforms such as Google Earth. It also discusses recent practices of spatial analysis that use a forensic approach. Through focusing on the Pakistani…
Introduction to Border Topologies
This “Border Topologies” themed section draws a series of texts that explore what design and artistic research could contribute to an understanding of border conditions in a context of rising inequalities, conflict, and climate change. The common aim of the articles is to interrogate contemporary borders through the practices that produce them by focusing on how the border appears and reappears at different scales, in unexpected places and config…
Amy Brandzel, Against citizenship: The violence of the normative
Review of Amy Brandzel, Against Citizenship: The Violence of the Normative (Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2016)
Horizonless Worlds: Navigating the Persistent Present of the Border Regime
Through discussing the persistent present of displacement the essay argues that a politics of time is being mobilised as a biopolitical means of control in migrant lives. This can be seen in the circularity of displacement, deportation and return, where waiting and disorientation become forms of control. The discussion emerges from field research and interviews I carried out in the villages of north Punjab, Pakistan, where many people are caught …
Performing on the streets: Infrastructures of subaltern resistance in Pakistan
This article explores infrastructures of subaltern resistance in Pakistan through a focus on spatial and performative modes and across a number of historical and contemporary examples. I start with the figure of the puppet, tracing it historically as an example of how culturally specific modes of dissent have evolved from a colonial to a postcolonial context, and further into a neoliberal space. I then analyse the practice of ‘wall chalking’, whi…
Digital witnessing and the erasure of the racialized subject
Humanitarian agencies are relying more frequently on remote sensing, satellite imagery and social media to produce accounts of violence. Their analysis aims at creating more compelling narratives for the court of law or of public opinion and has contributed towards a forensic turn, thus complicating the already fraught relationship between the practice of witnessing and political subjects. This article explores how digital witnessing allows us to…
To Know No Nation Will Be Home Until One Does
Shahzia Sikander is a Pakistani-American artist whose multimedia practice subverts and expands the conventional edges, scales, histories, and methods of Central- and South-Asian painting traditions
Infidelities
“Infidelities” emerged as a response to a series of simple questions.What does it mean to be loyal? To a discipline, to its institutions, to a practice, to yourself...?We came together for this call
Weaving worlds
This themed issue of the Journal of Visual Culture is concerned with how to think and work across what might at first sight seem to be incommensurate worlds. The articles assembled here think through questions of evidence, affect and speculation, and how these operate within our current economy of knowledge production through the use of practices such as mapping, modelling, sensing and storytelling. While these practices are not new, they have be…
Vignette as a way of seeing
A vignette can be considered a snapshot of a situation, or a moment in time that in its framing and composition might offer insights into more complex relations. In many ways, a vignette is a construction, a way of giving prominence to that which is precious or of significance. In this article, the authors consider the vignette as a form of ethical mediation and an intervention into conversations that are never fully whole. Their reflections have…
Repair as Stitching: On Hope and Reimagination in Gaza
By drawing on the work of the Architects for Gaza collective, this article offers a critical examination of the notion of repair within the fractured context of Gaza, a city that has endured repeated cycles of destruction and systematic erasure. The recurrent violence enacted on this geography has been integral to the tactical denial of the Gazans’ right to home, street, and neighborhood, as a part of the broader colonial project aimed at dismant…
Academic Citizenship and Intellectual Care: Reviews Editors in Conversation
Edwin Coomasaru:What is at stake in reviewing as an intellectual practice? This conversation will consider what it means to contribute to reviews as a scholarly field, the ways in which the role o
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