Ayaz Qureshi
Biographic Data
| ID | 642102 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ayaz Qureshi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ayaz |
| FAMILY NAME | Qureshi |
| SIGNATURE | QURESHI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lahore University of Management Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0451-7838 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
HIV prevention and public morality in Pakistan: The secular normativity of development
Religious leaders, development experts and state officials in Pakistan were brought together on shared platforms to negotiate a morally-appropriate but scientifically informed response to HIV. Instead of dialogue and negotiation in line with the secular ideal of development, the moral authority of the religious figure compelled others to forefront the conservative in them, thereby undermining the goal of HIV prevention in the country. The everyda…
Valuing Care: Community Workers and Bureaucratic Violence in Global Health
In this article, I explore the contradictory demands of ‘participation’ and ‘bureaucratisation’ in Pakistan’s HIV sector. Local models of relatedness, personhood and informal networks, and the particular social and emotional skills of development workers were co-opted under the rubric of ‘participation’ while rolling-out projects for community care, yet the affect, relations of trust and confidence built by community workers during their work wer…
Introduction to the Basas 2021 special section
This special section is dedicated to the BASAS conference 2021. The conference coincided with the devastating second wave of Covid-19 in India, which started in March and peaked in May 2021. Case numbers and mortality in South Asian countries were very high and their health systems too struggled to keep up with these unprecedented times. As governments across South Asia appeared to fail their populations, a sense of crisis was shared by conferenc…
The Politics of Pakistan's Covid-19 Response: A State-in-Society Approach
This paper takes a "state-in society" approach to understand the evolution of Pakistan's COVID-19 response, which was laid claim to and contested by multiple agencies within and adjacent to the state, and by multiple levels of government. The capacity of the health system of Pakistan was already overstretched by the needs of its population but in recent years it has been hamstrung by ongoing protests by the medical community concerning the privat…
Stigma and strategy in Pakistan's HIV prevention sector
NGOs often portray commercial sex workers, injecting drug users, transgender people (hijrae), and homosexual men as quasi-legal persons who are locked in a policing-criminality relationship with the state, and who therefore need them to mediate this relationship. By advancing such portrayals, NGOs in Pakistan's HIV prevention sector capitalize upon the presumed cultural difference of the so-called risk groups of HIV. They appropriate stigma again…
Sexual risk‐taking among homeless young people in Pakistan
Homeless young people who engage in sex work are at increased risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections like chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis and herpes. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 29 homeless young people between the ages of 16 and 25 years from Rawalpindi, Pakistan, to explore how sexual practices were mediated through social and contextual conditions. Participants engaged in sex for a range of reported reasons, m…
Aids in Pakistan
Surviving Hard Times
Participating in the Global Fund
Aids in Pakistan: Bureaucracy, Public Goods and NGOs
Where there is no weighing scale: Newborn nourishment and care in Pakistani Punjab
Development and public health in the Himalaya: Reflections on healing in contemporary Nepal, by Ian Harper
Development and public health in the Himalaya: reflections on healing in contemporary Nepal, by Ian Harper." Anthropology & Medicine, 23(1), pp. 125–126
The Marketization of HIV/Aids Governance: Public-Private Partnerships and Bureaucratic Culture in Pakistan
The World Bank-financed 'Enhanced HIV and AIDS Control Program' tried to reorganize HIV/AIDS governance in Pakistan by pushing a neoliberal agenda, marketizing the provision of publicly funded HIV prevention services. NGOs and the private sector competed for contracts with the government to provide services to sex workers, drug users, transgendered people and homosexuals who were deemed 'high risk' groups for HIV. With this contractualization eme…
Aids Activism in Pakistan: Diminishing Funds, Evasive State
This article draws on a year of ethnographic fieldwork in the HIV/AIDS sector of Pakistan at the moment of rolling back a World Bank-financed programme. Classified by UN agencies as at 'high risk' of a generalized HIV epidemic, Pakistan has an epidemiology driven by injecting drug use, and a Penal Code and Islamist legislation which criminalize non-therapeutic drug use and extra-marital sex. In recent years, a sharp increase in the numbers of reg…
Up-scaling expectations among Pakistan's HIV bureaucrats: Entrepreneurs of the self and job precariousness post-scale-up
Existing research has documented how the expansion of HIV programming has produced new subjectivities among the recipients of interventions. However, this paper contends that changes in politics, power and subjectivities may also be seen among the HIV bureaucracy in the decade of scale-up. One year's ethnographic fieldwork was conducted among AIDS control officials in Pakistan at a moment of rolling back a World Bank-financed Enhanced Programme. …
Uncivil society: The politics ofHIVactivism inPakistan
This article presents an ethnography of the Association of the People Living withHIVinPakistan, established under the auspices ofUNAIDS, internationalNGOs, and the government'sAIDScontrol department as an attempt to strengthen 'civil society'. It was initially run by formerly marginalizedHIV-positive leaders of community-based organizations (CBOs), until a young university-educatedHIV-positive man fromAmerica was selected as its national co-ordin…
Structural violence and the state: HIV and labour migration from Pakistan to the Persian Gulf
This paper examines the biopolitics of HIV and labour migration from Pakistan (a country classified by UNAIDS as at 'high risk' of a generalised epidemic) to the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The remittances by the labour migrants in the Gulf are an invaluable source of foreign exchange for Pakistan and a large number of households are entirely dependent upon them. At the same time, the National AIDS Control Programme regards G…
The Marketization of HIV/Aids Governance: Public-Private Partnerships and Bureaucratic Culture in Pakistan
The World Bank-financed 'Enhanced HIV and AIDS Control Program' tried to reorganize HIV/AIDS governance in Pakistan by pushing a neoliberal agenda, marketizing the provision of publicly funded HIV prevention services. NGOs and the private sector competed for contracts with the government to provide services to sex workers, drug users, transgendered people and homosexuals who were deemed 'high risk' groups for HIV. With this contractualization eme…
Structural violence and the state: HIV and labour migration from Pakistan to the Persian Gulf
This paper examines the biopolitics of HIV and labour migration from Pakistan (a country classified by UNAIDS as at 'high risk' of a generalised epidemic) to the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The remittances by the labour migrants in the Gulf are an invaluable source of foreign exchange for Pakistan and a large number of households are entirely dependent upon them. At the same time, the National AIDS Control Programme regards G…
Where there is no weighing scale: Newborn nourishment and care in Pakistani Punjab
The Politics of Pakistan's Covid-19 Response: A State-in-Society Approach
This paper takes a "state-in society" approach to understand the evolution of Pakistan's COVID-19 response, which was laid claim to and contested by multiple agencies within and adjacent to the state, and by multiple levels of government. The capacity of the health system of Pakistan was already overstretched by the needs of its population but in recent years it has been hamstrung by ongoing protests by the medical community concerning the privat…
Stigma and strategy in Pakistan's HIV prevention sector
NGOs often portray commercial sex workers, injecting drug users, transgender people (hijrae), and homosexual men as quasi-legal persons who are locked in a policing-criminality relationship with the state, and who therefore need them to mediate this relationship. By advancing such portrayals, NGOs in Pakistan's HIV prevention sector capitalize upon the presumed cultural difference of the so-called risk groups of HIV. They appropriate stigma again…
Uncivil society: The politics ofHIVactivism inPakistan
This article presents an ethnography of the Association of the People Living withHIVinPakistan, established under the auspices ofUNAIDS, internationalNGOs, and the government'sAIDScontrol department as an attempt to strengthen 'civil society'. It was initially run by formerly marginalizedHIV-positive leaders of community-based organizations (CBOs), until a young university-educatedHIV-positive man fromAmerica was selected as its national co-ordin…
Structural violence and the state: HIV and labour migration from Pakistan to the Persian Gulf
This paper examines the biopolitics of HIV and labour migration from Pakistan (a country classified by UNAIDS as at 'high risk' of a generalised epidemic) to the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The remittances by the labour migrants in the Gulf are an invaluable source of foreign exchange for Pakistan and a large number of households are entirely dependent upon them. At the same time, the National AIDS Control Programme regards G…
Up-scaling expectations among Pakistan's HIV bureaucrats: Entrepreneurs of the self and job precariousness post-scale-up
Existing research has documented how the expansion of HIV programming has produced new subjectivities among the recipients of interventions. However, this paper contends that changes in politics, power and subjectivities may also be seen among the HIV bureaucracy in the decade of scale-up. One year's ethnographic fieldwork was conducted among AIDS control officials in Pakistan at a moment of rolling back a World Bank-financed Enhanced Programme. …
Uncivil society: The politics ofHIVactivism inPakistan
This article presents an ethnography of the Association of the People Living withHIVinPakistan, established under the auspices ofUNAIDS, internationalNGOs, and the government'sAIDScontrol department as an attempt to strengthen 'civil society'. It was initially run by formerly marginalizedHIV-positive leaders of community-based organizations (CBOs), until a young university-educatedHIV-positive man fromAmerica was selected as its national co-ordin…
Development and public health in the Himalaya: Reflections on healing in contemporary Nepal, by Ian Harper
Development and public health in the Himalaya: reflections on healing in contemporary Nepal, by Ian Harper." Anthropology & Medicine, 23(1), pp. 125–126
The Marketization of HIV/Aids Governance: Public-Private Partnerships and Bureaucratic Culture in Pakistan
The World Bank-financed 'Enhanced HIV and AIDS Control Program' tried to reorganize HIV/AIDS governance in Pakistan by pushing a neoliberal agenda, marketizing the provision of publicly funded HIV prevention services. NGOs and the private sector competed for contracts with the government to provide services to sex workers, drug users, transgendered people and homosexuals who were deemed 'high risk' groups for HIV. With this contractualization eme…
Aids Activism in Pakistan: Diminishing Funds, Evasive State
This article draws on a year of ethnographic fieldwork in the HIV/AIDS sector of Pakistan at the moment of rolling back a World Bank-financed programme. Classified by UN agencies as at 'high risk' of a generalized HIV epidemic, Pakistan has an epidemiology driven by injecting drug use, and a Penal Code and Islamist legislation which criminalize non-therapeutic drug use and extra-marital sex. In recent years, a sharp increase in the numbers of reg…
Where there is no weighing scale: Newborn nourishment and care in Pakistani Punjab
Aids in Pakistan: Bureaucracy, Public Goods and NGOs
Aids in Pakistan
Surviving Hard Times
Participating in the Global Fund
Sexual risk‐taking among homeless young people in Pakistan
Homeless young people who engage in sex work are at increased risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections like chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis and herpes. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 29 homeless young people between the ages of 16 and 25 years from Rawalpindi, Pakistan, to explore how sexual practices were mediated through social and contextual conditions. Participants engaged in sex for a range of reported reasons, m…
Valuing Care: Community Workers and Bureaucratic Violence in Global Health
In this article, I explore the contradictory demands of ‘participation’ and ‘bureaucratisation’ in Pakistan’s HIV sector. Local models of relatedness, personhood and informal networks, and the particular social and emotional skills of development workers were co-opted under the rubric of ‘participation’ while rolling-out projects for community care, yet the affect, relations of trust and confidence built by community workers during their work wer…
Introduction to the Basas 2021 special section
This special section is dedicated to the BASAS conference 2021. The conference coincided with the devastating second wave of Covid-19 in India, which started in March and peaked in May 2021. Case numbers and mortality in South Asian countries were very high and their health systems too struggled to keep up with these unprecedented times. As governments across South Asia appeared to fail their populations, a sense of crisis was shared by conferenc…
The Politics of Pakistan's Covid-19 Response: A State-in-Society Approach
This paper takes a "state-in society" approach to understand the evolution of Pakistan's COVID-19 response, which was laid claim to and contested by multiple agencies within and adjacent to the state, and by multiple levels of government. The capacity of the health system of Pakistan was already overstretched by the needs of its population but in recent years it has been hamstrung by ongoing protests by the medical community concerning the privat…
Stigma and strategy in Pakistan's HIV prevention sector
NGOs often portray commercial sex workers, injecting drug users, transgender people (hijrae), and homosexual men as quasi-legal persons who are locked in a policing-criminality relationship with the state, and who therefore need them to mediate this relationship. By advancing such portrayals, NGOs in Pakistan's HIV prevention sector capitalize upon the presumed cultural difference of the so-called risk groups of HIV. They appropriate stigma again…
HIV prevention and public morality in Pakistan: The secular normativity of development
Religious leaders, development experts and state officials in Pakistan were brought together on shared platforms to negotiate a morally-appropriate but scientifically informed response to HIV. Instead of dialogue and negotiation in line with the secular ideal of development, the moral authority of the religious figure compelled others to forefront the conservative in them, thereby undermining the goal of HIV prevention in the country. The everyda…
Political science (14 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Politics (10 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (7 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Bureaucracy (5 works)