Asif Mehmood
Biographic Data
| ID | 907158 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Asif Mehmood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Asif |
| FAMILY NAME | Mehmood |
| SIGNATURE | MEHMOOD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bahauddin Zakariya University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2101-4116 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Zombie environmentalism at the Lahore Biennale: Art, crisis and the limits of spectacular engagement
As Lahore choked under record smog levels in October–November 2024, the city's third Biennale showcased environmental art addressing, inter alia , air pollution, water scarcity and river degradation. This ethnographic account examines the gap between the Biennale's interventionist ambitions and its limited political agency. Drawing on participant observation, the author analyzes how Biennale artworks created immersive experiences that aligned wit…
Geopolitics is aesthetic: CPEC, space, and signage
In this work, I focus on the Pakistani component of the Belt-and-Road-Initiative (BRI), the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to examine its public discourse. I pay attention to the CPEC and CPEC-enabled street signage (broadly understood) and explore how this signage unfolds in the Pakistani public spaces. My argument is three-pronged. First , I argue that the public signage as street level visual discourse promotes social governability of…
The lactosocial at Data Saheb ’s Shrine (Lahore-Pakistan): Piety, flows, commons, and the community
In this visual intervention, we show how a traditional community ( Gujjars) associated with livestock and dairy business enables and sustains milk commons as an articulation of their devotion to Lahore's city saint Data Ganj Bakhsh. We argue that the flows of milk at the shrine (monthly/annually) operate not only as a special purpose vehicle of piety for centuries but also as a device for Gujjar identity formation. The commoning practices reveal …
Energizing dissensus: Socio-technical (counter) imaginaries along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is a featured project of China's Belt and Road Initiative that is creating new resource frontiers in Tharparkar, Pakistan. Centered around coal mining and energy production, these new sites of resource extraction and their infrastructures have sparked dissensus throughout the Desert district of Sindh, Pakistan. Our analysis draws on research on socio-technical imaginaries and Rancière's thoughts on political c…
Pilgrim bodies, nano-tech attire and the making of the post-oil Saudi state
Impact of Foreign Capital Inflows on Economic Development of Pakistan: A Disaggregated Approach
The central intent of this study is to locate the fallouts of Foreign Capital Inflows (FCI) on economic development. Influenced from Human Development Index (HDI), constructs of economic development are disaggregated in multiple models and the time series estimation is done while relied upon forty-two years data ranging from 1980 to 2021. For cointegration analyses, Bound Test and Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) are used. Findings proved po…
Religion and urban political eco/ pathology: Exploring communalized coronavirus in South Asia
Judicialising Urban Political Ecologies: Post‐Politics and Environmental Governance in South Asia
Legal and judicial mediation and arbitration significantly influence who has access and control over resources. Taking insights from post‐political debates in political ecology and discussions at the intersection of critical legal geography and political ecology, we focus on the production of judicial ecologies. Through case studies on waste management in India, water governance in Pakistan, and urban air pollution in Bangladesh, we describe how …
Attitude of People towards Non-Government Organizations Intervention with Reference to Health Awareness: A Post Crisis Analysis in Swat-Pakistan
This study conducted with the objective to measure the pre and post NGOs intervention regarding health awareness and people level of satisfaction. The sample size for this study was selected 230 from the total population of 450. The study concluded that NGOs intervention significantly lunching campaign against tobacco control, HIV/AIDS, immunization awareness, dengue virus awareness. In addition, there was an increase in health hygiene and nutrit…
Youth Unemployment and its Origins: An Analyses of Multan District
Youth unemployment is one of the major problems which the developing countries of the world face. This study is initiated to explore the foremost origins and sequels of youth employment
Religion and urban political eco/pathology: Exploring communalized coronavirus in South Asia
wWe use the urban political ecology perspective to explore how communities of homo religiosus (re)configure politics of COVID-19 in India and Pakistan. This urban health crisis unfolds in five parallel registers of conflictualities: (i) where religious communities carve out a domain for self-governance of the pandemic with their own 'knowledge and truths', (ii) where embodied religious practices challenge or undermine state biopower and transform…
Postcolonial Land Governance in Pakistan: Exclusionary Practices on State-Owned Farms
Current developments in Pakistan highlight the unresolved issue of proprietary rights for long-standing tenants of state-owned farms comprising thousands of acres in various districts of Punjab. The pendulum of state response to the hereditary claims of people who have lived and worked on this land for generations swings presently towards expropriation, rather than respect for rural people’s basic rights. The scenario is further complicated becau…
Energizing dissensus: Socio-technical (counter) imaginaries along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is a featured project of China's Belt and Road Initiative that is creating new resource frontiers in Tharparkar, Pakistan. Centered around coal mining and energy production, these new sites of resource extraction and their infrastructures have sparked dissensus throughout the Desert district of Sindh, Pakistan. Our analysis draws on research on socio-technical imaginaries and Rancière's thoughts on political c…
Judicialising Urban Political Ecologies: Post‐Politics and Environmental Governance in South Asia
Legal and judicial mediation and arbitration significantly influence who has access and control over resources. Taking insights from post‐political debates in political ecology and discussions at the intersection of critical legal geography and political ecology, we focus on the production of judicial ecologies. Through case studies on waste management in India, water governance in Pakistan, and urban air pollution in Bangladesh, we describe how …
Postcolonial Land Governance in Pakistan: Exclusionary Practices on State-Owned Farms
Current developments in Pakistan highlight the unresolved issue of proprietary rights for long-standing tenants of state-owned farms comprising thousands of acres in various districts of Punjab. The pendulum of state response to the hereditary claims of people who have lived and worked on this land for generations swings presently towards expropriation, rather than respect for rural people’s basic rights. The scenario is further complicated becau…
Postcolonial Land Governance in Pakistan: Exclusionary Practices on State-Owned Farms
Current developments in Pakistan highlight the unresolved issue of proprietary rights for long-standing tenants of state-owned farms comprising thousands of acres in various districts of Punjab. The pendulum of state response to the hereditary claims of people who have lived and worked on this land for generations swings presently towards expropriation, rather than respect for rural people’s basic rights. The scenario is further complicated becau…
Attitude of People towards Non-Government Organizations Intervention with Reference to Health Awareness: A Post Crisis Analysis in Swat-Pakistan
This study conducted with the objective to measure the pre and post NGOs intervention regarding health awareness and people level of satisfaction. The sample size for this study was selected 230 from the total population of 450. The study concluded that NGOs intervention significantly lunching campaign against tobacco control, HIV/AIDS, immunization awareness, dengue virus awareness. In addition, there was an increase in health hygiene and nutrit…
Youth Unemployment and its Origins: An Analyses of Multan District
Youth unemployment is one of the major problems which the developing countries of the world face. This study is initiated to explore the foremost origins and sequels of youth employment
Religion and urban political eco/pathology: Exploring communalized coronavirus in South Asia
wWe use the urban political ecology perspective to explore how communities of homo religiosus (re)configure politics of COVID-19 in India and Pakistan. This urban health crisis unfolds in five parallel registers of conflictualities: (i) where religious communities carve out a domain for self-governance of the pandemic with their own 'knowledge and truths', (ii) where embodied religious practices challenge or undermine state biopower and transform…
Impact of Foreign Capital Inflows on Economic Development of Pakistan: A Disaggregated Approach
The central intent of this study is to locate the fallouts of Foreign Capital Inflows (FCI) on economic development. Influenced from Human Development Index (HDI), constructs of economic development are disaggregated in multiple models and the time series estimation is done while relied upon forty-two years data ranging from 1980 to 2021. For cointegration analyses, Bound Test and Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) are used. Findings proved po…
Religion and urban political eco/ pathology: Exploring communalized coronavirus in South Asia
Judicialising Urban Political Ecologies: Post‐Politics and Environmental Governance in South Asia
Legal and judicial mediation and arbitration significantly influence who has access and control over resources. Taking insights from post‐political debates in political ecology and discussions at the intersection of critical legal geography and political ecology, we focus on the production of judicial ecologies. Through case studies on waste management in India, water governance in Pakistan, and urban air pollution in Bangladesh, we describe how …
Pilgrim bodies, nano-tech attire and the making of the post-oil Saudi state
The lactosocial at Data Saheb ’s Shrine (Lahore-Pakistan): Piety, flows, commons, and the community
In this visual intervention, we show how a traditional community ( Gujjars) associated with livestock and dairy business enables and sustains milk commons as an articulation of their devotion to Lahore's city saint Data Ganj Bakhsh. We argue that the flows of milk at the shrine (monthly/annually) operate not only as a special purpose vehicle of piety for centuries but also as a device for Gujjar identity formation. The commoning practices reveal …
Energizing dissensus: Socio-technical (counter) imaginaries along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is a featured project of China's Belt and Road Initiative that is creating new resource frontiers in Tharparkar, Pakistan. Centered around coal mining and energy production, these new sites of resource extraction and their infrastructures have sparked dissensus throughout the Desert district of Sindh, Pakistan. Our analysis draws on research on socio-technical imaginaries and Rancière's thoughts on political c…
Zombie environmentalism at the Lahore Biennale: Art, crisis and the limits of spectacular engagement
As Lahore choked under record smog levels in October–November 2024, the city's third Biennale showcased environmental art addressing, inter alia , air pollution, water scarcity and river degradation. This ethnographic account examines the gap between the Biennale's interventionist ambitions and its limited political agency. Drawing on participant observation, the author analyzes how Biennale artworks created immersive experiences that aligned wit…
Geopolitics is aesthetic: CPEC, space, and signage
In this work, I focus on the Pakistani component of the Belt-and-Road-Initiative (BRI), the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to examine its public discourse. I pay attention to the CPEC and CPEC-enabled street signage (broadly understood) and explore how this signage unfolds in the Pakistani public spaces. My argument is three-pronged. First , I argue that the public signage as street level visual discourse promotes social governability of…
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