Afiya Shehrbano Zia
Biographic Data
| ID | 646002 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Afiya Shehrbano Zia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Afiya Shehrbano |
| FAMILY NAME | Zia |
| SIGNATURE | ZIA A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Film Independent |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Queer Companions
Gendered Legacies of Empire
This paper uses the concept of feminicide, developed by Latin American feminists, to illuminate patterns of gendered governance in colonial India and postcolonial Pakistan. We argue that the British Empire in India was built on the structural subordination of women, the normalization of gendered violence, and the devaluation of women's lives. We trace the long trajectory of state complicity in gendered violence back to British colonial legislatio…
Pious, populist, political masculinities in Pakistan and India
This article makes a case for the inclusion of piety politics and populist masculinities in any analysis of the governance and international relations between two South Asian rivals and nuclear neighbours; Muslim-majority Pakistan and Hindu-majority India. It offers a comparative case-study of the redeemed Sufi masculinity of the recently deposed Pakistani Prime Minister, Imran Khan, and the ascetic Hindutva one performed by the Prime Minister of…
Can Rescue Narratives Save Lives? Honor Killing in Pakistan
This essay closely examines the gendered discourse of shame, honor, violence, and sexuality as played out in Pakistan. The first half of the essay contextualizes the epistemological melee that has marked some post-9/11 feminist scholarship on honor violence. The essay argues that the prescription to regard honor crimes as deculturalized domestic violence, or as severed from Islamic discourse, is unhelpful. Through a conversation with a landowner …
Race, class, and agency
This article argues that the starting point for Marxist feminist praxis is not rooted in questions of identity, agency, authenticity, space, or body but in the oppression and the exploitation of women and men of the working class, peasants, urban poor, and national minorities. The analysis herein departs from the postmodernist study of language, representation, or culture and reaffirms how capitalization and modernization have bolstered tradition…
Unraveling the Bindings of Muslim Women
These books are recent contributions to the continuing debate about Arab women and their affective engagement with Islam. The two overlapping themes in these publications are, first, the appeal and perspective of a post-Islamist political society in Muslim majority contexts, primarily using Egypt as an example, and, second, probing the older theme of fitna, the distracting potential of women’s sexuality and bodies and the ways it has been reclaim…
Performance anxiety
The nexus of Islam, gender, race and violence has been keenly revisited in some post-9/11 scholarship. The concern over the racialized Muslim male body is justifiable in cases of rendition, torture and the kind of battlefields that mark the War on Terror. However, the sympathetic analysis of the tortured Muslim male body as a permanent and universally vulnerable imaginary has necessarily challenged the framing of sexual politics for Muslim contex…
A response to Nicola Pratt’s call for “strategic silence”
Redefining faith and freedoms
This essay argues that the “gendered attention” afforded to the “war on terror” (WoT), both in the West and in the case of Pakistan, has yielded merely two channels of representation for Muslim wom
Pakistan. Le féminisme réinventé
Pour les femmes musulmanes, la pratique de la religion offre un refuge face au pouvoir patriarcal des hommes. Au Pakistan, pays d’origine de nombreuses femmes installées en Grande-Bretagne, le mouvement des femmes laïques, en s’alliant avec les mouvements de femmes islamistes, s’est vu absorbé par ces derniers. Aujourd’hui, les féministes musulmanes constituent un mouvement diversifié et s’engagent de plus en plus
The Reinvention of Feminism in Pakistan
This article argues that there has been a significant turn in the discourse of feminist politics in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The author suggests that the rise of a new feminism - rooted in Islamic discourse, non-confrontational, privatized and personalized, whose objective is to 'empower' women within Islam - is not a post-9/11 development but rather a result of unresolved debates on the issue of religion within the progressive women's m…
The Reinvention of Feminism in Pakistan
This article argues that there has been a significant turn in the discourse of feminist politics in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The author suggests that the rise of a new feminism - rooted in Islamic discourse, non-confrontational, privatized and personalized, whose objective is to 'empower' women within Islam - is not a post-9/11 development but rather a result of unresolved debates on the issue of religion within the progressive women's m…
Pious, populist, political masculinities in Pakistan and India
This article makes a case for the inclusion of piety politics and populist masculinities in any analysis of the governance and international relations between two South Asian rivals and nuclear neighbours; Muslim-majority Pakistan and Hindu-majority India. It offers a comparative case-study of the redeemed Sufi masculinity of the recently deposed Pakistani Prime Minister, Imran Khan, and the ascetic Hindutva one performed by the Prime Minister of…
Race, class, and agency
This article argues that the starting point for Marxist feminist praxis is not rooted in questions of identity, agency, authenticity, space, or body but in the oppression and the exploitation of women and men of the working class, peasants, urban poor, and national minorities. The analysis herein departs from the postmodernist study of language, representation, or culture and reaffirms how capitalization and modernization have bolstered tradition…
Performance anxiety
The nexus of Islam, gender, race and violence has been keenly revisited in some post-9/11 scholarship. The concern over the racialized Muslim male body is justifiable in cases of rendition, torture and the kind of battlefields that mark the War on Terror. However, the sympathetic analysis of the tortured Muslim male body as a permanent and universally vulnerable imaginary has necessarily challenged the framing of sexual politics for Muslim contex…
Unraveling the Bindings of Muslim Women
These books are recent contributions to the continuing debate about Arab women and their affective engagement with Islam. The two overlapping themes in these publications are, first, the appeal and perspective of a post-Islamist political society in Muslim majority contexts, primarily using Egypt as an example, and, second, probing the older theme of fitna, the distracting potential of women’s sexuality and bodies and the ways it has been reclaim…
Redefining faith and freedoms
This essay argues that the “gendered attention” afforded to the “war on terror” (WoT), both in the West and in the case of Pakistan, has yielded merely two channels of representation for Muslim wom
The Reinvention of Feminism in Pakistan
This article argues that there has been a significant turn in the discourse of feminist politics in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The author suggests that the rise of a new feminism - rooted in Islamic discourse, non-confrontational, privatized and personalized, whose objective is to 'empower' women within Islam - is not a post-9/11 development but rather a result of unresolved debates on the issue of religion within the progressive women's m…
Pakistan. Le féminisme réinventé
Pour les femmes musulmanes, la pratique de la religion offre un refuge face au pouvoir patriarcal des hommes. Au Pakistan, pays d’origine de nombreuses femmes installées en Grande-Bretagne, le mouvement des femmes laïques, en s’alliant avec les mouvements de femmes islamistes, s’est vu absorbé par ces derniers. Aujourd’hui, les féministes musulmanes constituent un mouvement diversifié et s’engagent de plus en plus
A response to Nicola Pratt’s call for “strategic silence”
Redefining faith and freedoms
This essay argues that the “gendered attention” afforded to the “war on terror” (WoT), both in the West and in the case of Pakistan, has yielded merely two channels of representation for Muslim wom
Unraveling the Bindings of Muslim Women
These books are recent contributions to the continuing debate about Arab women and their affective engagement with Islam. The two overlapping themes in these publications are, first, the appeal and perspective of a post-Islamist political society in Muslim majority contexts, primarily using Egypt as an example, and, second, probing the older theme of fitna, the distracting potential of women’s sexuality and bodies and the ways it has been reclaim…
Performance anxiety
The nexus of Islam, gender, race and violence has been keenly revisited in some post-9/11 scholarship. The concern over the racialized Muslim male body is justifiable in cases of rendition, torture and the kind of battlefields that mark the War on Terror. However, the sympathetic analysis of the tortured Muslim male body as a permanent and universally vulnerable imaginary has necessarily challenged the framing of sexual politics for Muslim contex…
Can Rescue Narratives Save Lives? Honor Killing in Pakistan
This essay closely examines the gendered discourse of shame, honor, violence, and sexuality as played out in Pakistan. The first half of the essay contextualizes the epistemological melee that has marked some post-9/11 feminist scholarship on honor violence. The essay argues that the prescription to regard honor crimes as deculturalized domestic violence, or as severed from Islamic discourse, is unhelpful. Through a conversation with a landowner …
Race, class, and agency
This article argues that the starting point for Marxist feminist praxis is not rooted in questions of identity, agency, authenticity, space, or body but in the oppression and the exploitation of women and men of the working class, peasants, urban poor, and national minorities. The analysis herein departs from the postmodernist study of language, representation, or culture and reaffirms how capitalization and modernization have bolstered tradition…
Pious, populist, political masculinities in Pakistan and India
This article makes a case for the inclusion of piety politics and populist masculinities in any analysis of the governance and international relations between two South Asian rivals and nuclear neighbours; Muslim-majority Pakistan and Hindu-majority India. It offers a comparative case-study of the redeemed Sufi masculinity of the recently deposed Pakistani Prime Minister, Imran Khan, and the ascetic Hindutva one performed by the Prime Minister of…
Queer Companions
Gendered Legacies of Empire
This paper uses the concept of feminicide, developed by Latin American feminists, to illuminate patterns of gendered governance in colonial India and postcolonial Pakistan. We argue that the British Empire in India was built on the structural subordination of women, the normalization of gendered violence, and the devaluation of women's lives. We trace the long trajectory of state complicity in gendered violence back to British colonial legislatio…
Political science (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (4 works)