Ayyaz Mallick
Biographic Data
| ID | 6366200 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ayyaz Mallick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ayyaz |
| FAMILY NAME | Mallick |
| SIGNATURE | MALLICK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
History, structure and conjuncture: Imperialism and the polity in Pakistan
This paper develops Antonio Gramsci's distinction between organic and conjunctural terrains to delineate the relationship between imperialism and the polity in Pakistan. A political-economic analysis of the mechanisms and magnitude of unequal exchange and economic drain over the last three and a half decades is carried out through domestic and international data sources. This imperial-economic mooring is then brought into conversation with Pakist…
Spaces of melancholia, melancholias of space: Shifting structures of feeling in post-independence Karachi
This article draws upon Henri Lefebvre and Fredric Jameson to trace the shifting coordinates of social and spatial experience through novels set in Karachi (Pakistan). I bring Lefebvre's understanding of the “concrete abstraction” of space under capitalism together with Jameson's insights on the content and form of narratives to develop an understanding of “space” as constitutive to literary fiction. I then draw upon three major novels to trace t…
Aijaz Ahmad and the Actuality of the National
This is a short reflection essay on the work of the acclaimed Marxist critic Aijaz Ahmad, who passed away in March 2022. The essay focusses on the form and method of Ahmad's writing, while also considering his seminal interventions on nationalism, imperialism, and literary criticism
Stretch’ and ‘Translate’: Gramscian Lineages, Fanonist Convergences in the (Post)Colony
This paper establishes a theoretical linkage between Antonio Gramsci and Frantz Fanon. Gramsci’s critical-historicist method and its relationship to humanism, his integral understanding of Marxism, and emphasis on the moment of political practice resonate with Fanon’s articulation of the subjective and political-economic aspects of the colonial question, his activistic materialism, and his dialectically humanist universalism forged through anti-c…
From Partisan Universal to Concrete Universal? The Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement in Pakistan
This paper explores the question of universal‐particular through the anti‐war Pashtun Tahaffuz (Protection) Movement in Pakistan. With its demands couched in the language of pain, rights to life and “dignity”, the PTM mobilises popular Pashtun sentiments as a “partisan universal”: a political formulation which achieves the common good even as it attends to particular interests. However, within the re‐formulated urban question in post‐9/11 Pakista…
Urban space and (the limits of) middle class hegemony in Pakistan
This paper aims to explore the emergence of reconstituted political subjectivities in urban Pakistan. Specifically, the paper will focus on an emerging hegemonic project which centers the socio-political articulations and aspirations of middle class fractions that have emerged in the country in the wake of post-1980s economic liberalisation. Detailed light will be shed upon the (proto-)hegemonic aspirations of a distinct fraction of the middle cl…
Beyond “Domination without Hegemony”: Passive revolution(s) in Pakistan
This paper delineates the problematic of state and civil society set out by Marx and Gramsci in its theoretical-conjunctural validity, as it relates to postcolonial social formations and especially post-1970s Pakistan. The Gramscian concepts of passive revolution, “boundary-traversing” hegemony, and the integral state are elaborated through references to three major theorists of postcolonial societies: Chatterjee, Alavi, and Fanon. The resulting …
Urban space and (the limits of) middle class hegemony in Pakistan
This paper aims to explore the emergence of reconstituted political subjectivities in urban Pakistan. Specifically, the paper will focus on an emerging hegemonic project which centers the socio-political articulations and aspirations of middle class fractions that have emerged in the country in the wake of post-1980s economic liberalisation. Detailed light will be shed upon the (proto-)hegemonic aspirations of a distinct fraction of the middle cl…
Beyond “Domination without Hegemony”: Passive revolution(s) in Pakistan
This paper delineates the problematic of state and civil society set out by Marx and Gramsci in its theoretical-conjunctural validity, as it relates to postcolonial social formations and especially post-1970s Pakistan. The Gramscian concepts of passive revolution, “boundary-traversing” hegemony, and the integral state are elaborated through references to three major theorists of postcolonial societies: Chatterjee, Alavi, and Fanon. The resulting …
From Partisan Universal to Concrete Universal? The Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement in Pakistan
This paper explores the question of universal‐particular through the anti‐war Pashtun Tahaffuz (Protection) Movement in Pakistan. With its demands couched in the language of pain, rights to life and “dignity”, the PTM mobilises popular Pashtun sentiments as a “partisan universal”: a political formulation which achieves the common good even as it attends to particular interests. However, within the re‐formulated urban question in post‐9/11 Pakista…
Stretch’ and ‘Translate’: Gramscian Lineages, Fanonist Convergences in the (Post)Colony
This paper establishes a theoretical linkage between Antonio Gramsci and Frantz Fanon. Gramsci’s critical-historicist method and its relationship to humanism, his integral understanding of Marxism, and emphasis on the moment of political practice resonate with Fanon’s articulation of the subjective and political-economic aspects of the colonial question, his activistic materialism, and his dialectically humanist universalism forged through anti-c…
History, structure and conjuncture: Imperialism and the polity in Pakistan
This paper develops Antonio Gramsci's distinction between organic and conjunctural terrains to delineate the relationship between imperialism and the polity in Pakistan. A political-economic analysis of the mechanisms and magnitude of unequal exchange and economic drain over the last three and a half decades is carried out through domestic and international data sources. This imperial-economic mooring is then brought into conversation with Pakist…
Beyond “Domination without Hegemony”: Passive revolution(s) in Pakistan
This paper delineates the problematic of state and civil society set out by Marx and Gramsci in its theoretical-conjunctural validity, as it relates to postcolonial social formations and especially post-1970s Pakistan. The Gramscian concepts of passive revolution, “boundary-traversing” hegemony, and the integral state are elaborated through references to three major theorists of postcolonial societies: Chatterjee, Alavi, and Fanon. The resulting …
Urban space and (the limits of) middle class hegemony in Pakistan
This paper aims to explore the emergence of reconstituted political subjectivities in urban Pakistan. Specifically, the paper will focus on an emerging hegemonic project which centers the socio-political articulations and aspirations of middle class fractions that have emerged in the country in the wake of post-1980s economic liberalisation. Detailed light will be shed upon the (proto-)hegemonic aspirations of a distinct fraction of the middle cl…
From Partisan Universal to Concrete Universal? The Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement in Pakistan
This paper explores the question of universal‐particular through the anti‐war Pashtun Tahaffuz (Protection) Movement in Pakistan. With its demands couched in the language of pain, rights to life and “dignity”, the PTM mobilises popular Pashtun sentiments as a “partisan universal”: a political formulation which achieves the common good even as it attends to particular interests. However, within the re‐formulated urban question in post‐9/11 Pakista…
Stretch’ and ‘Translate’: Gramscian Lineages, Fanonist Convergences in the (Post)Colony
This paper establishes a theoretical linkage between Antonio Gramsci and Frantz Fanon. Gramsci’s critical-historicist method and its relationship to humanism, his integral understanding of Marxism, and emphasis on the moment of political practice resonate with Fanon’s articulation of the subjective and political-economic aspects of the colonial question, his activistic materialism, and his dialectically humanist universalism forged through anti-c…
Aijaz Ahmad and the Actuality of the National
This is a short reflection essay on the work of the acclaimed Marxist critic Aijaz Ahmad, who passed away in March 2022. The essay focusses on the form and method of Ahmad's writing, while also considering his seminal interventions on nationalism, imperialism, and literary criticism
Spaces of melancholia, melancholias of space: Shifting structures of feeling in post-independence Karachi
This article draws upon Henri Lefebvre and Fredric Jameson to trace the shifting coordinates of social and spatial experience through novels set in Karachi (Pakistan). I bring Lefebvre's understanding of the “concrete abstraction” of space under capitalism together with Jameson's insights on the content and form of narratives to develop an understanding of “space” as constitutive to literary fiction. I then draw upon three major novels to trace t…
History, structure and conjuncture: Imperialism and the polity in Pakistan
This paper develops Antonio Gramsci's distinction between organic and conjunctural terrains to delineate the relationship between imperialism and the polity in Pakistan. A political-economic analysis of the mechanisms and magnitude of unequal exchange and economic drain over the last three and a half decades is carried out through domestic and international data sources. This imperial-economic mooring is then brought into conversation with Pakist…
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