Madiha Tahir
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 103659 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Madiha Tahir |
| PRENOMES | Madiha |
| SOBRENOME | Tahir |
| ASSINATURA | TAHIR M |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0019-9948 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 87 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 12 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Traditional uses of family Asteraceae in Ethiopia
Background: The Asteraceae family is one of the most widely used medicinal plant families in Ethiopia, playing a crucial role in traditional healthcare across diverse ethnic and ecological settings. Despite its importance, a comprehensive synthesis of ethnobotanical knowledge, phytochemical constituents, and therapeutic applications remains limited. Methods: A systematic review was conducted by searching multiple electronic databases for studies …
Technology and Critique
This special section grows out of “Technologies of Power,” a virtual series convened between fall 2021 and spring 2022, where twenty-one scholars, artists, writers, and activists gathered to examine the entanglements of empire, technology, and violence across the longue durée of the global “war on terror.” We interrogate how technologies—from maps, censuses, and drones to smartphones, platform governance, biometrics, and AI—mediate governance, su…
Distributed Empire
Beginning with a material and conceptual entry from the global South, this article theorizes drone warfare as an instance of what the author terms distributed empire. The US imperial formation has generally been reticent to establish formal colonies even as it projects power. This political logic has found sociotechnical form in its key technology—the weaponized drone. Media and US publics today are awash in techno-fetishist propaganda that touts…
Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants in Adwa District, Central Zone of Tigray Regional State, Northern Ethiopia
Background Medicinal plants have been used for ages in Ethiopia. Some 887 plant species have been documented to heal human and livestock health problems. Documenting the traditional use of medicinal plants is a vital step in obtaining information on bioactive chemicals, preserving indigenous knowledge and ultimately interesting, medicinal plant species. We conducted this study with the aim of documenting the ethnobotanical knowledge associated wi…
Bodycams and Gender Equity
Law enforcement agencies, community advocates and policymakers hope that the widespread adoption of police bodycams will alleviate racial disparities and reduce misconduct and use of force. Racial justice has been central to this conversation, but gender justice has not. This essay takes an intersectional, gendered look at bodycam policies, challenging the assumption that officers will act more fairly when they know they are being recorded. Bodyc…
The Police Are the Punishment
Against the normative definition of punishment as the infliction of pain on an offender by an appropriate legal authority, this essay argues that the police, although they are not entitled to administer retribution, commonly do so on the street or at the precinct, including against innocent individuals. Such punishment is disproportionately imposed on working-class men from disadvantaged neighborhoods belonging to ethnoracial minorities. It is ju…
The Closing
This essay is an ethnographic analysis of the violent world of translation in Kabul, Afghanistan, and the provinces referred to in the general idiom of "the countryside" by Afghan translators who encounter rural subjects as part of an international military campaign. It begins with the tragedy of translation as an elegiac matter of the heart closing, and it attempts to understand the metaphor of closure alongside that of strangeness and (un)trans…
Elimination Politics
Focusing on punishment and imprisonment across three time periods, this essay explores the two-pronged attack on Palestinian politics that has characterized the settler-colonial project in Palestine over the past one hundred years. This double move entails an attempt to deny or destroy Palestinian political community, while simultaneously identifying Palestinians as political actors, specifically as bad actors. The aim is to undermine Palestinian…
"Drones as "Atmospheric Policing
The use of drones to supplement and operationalize US border enforcement and municipal policing disturbs the supposed boundary between military and civilian or battleground and home front. Situating drones in an expanded field of a war power-police power nexus draws together histories of so-called small wars, insurgencies, civil rebellions, labor strikes, prison uprisings, and practices of resistance at various scales that have responded and cont…
The Exceptional Prison
Between 2013 and 2016, police in one Brazilian city killed 3,287 people-66.5 percent of whom were black. It might not seem surprising, then, that this place is also one of the only in the world that has a prison just for police. But this prison is exceptional, a "model" place, as those who run it say. It isn't "dungeon-like" or a "warehouse of black lives," as scholars describe prisons in this country and elsewhere. Among an apiary, a tilapia pon…
James Baldwin and the Anti-Black Force of Law
There has been a recent resurgence in attention to James Baldwin as academics, public intellectuals, filmmakers, and curators engage with his work through the lens of the Movement for Black Lives. Continuing this turn, I read Baldwin as a theorist of the law and, ultimately, an abolitionist. By reading "The Fire Next Time" (1963) and "No Name in the Street" (1972), I argue that policing in the United States is inherently organized by a(n) (il)log…
Speculative Policing
This article develops a theorization of "speculative policing": an experimental, future-oriented form of policing that connects crime prevention to real-estate speculation and other forms of negotiating urban risk and uncertainty. Speculative policing works to establish a specific sociopolitical order; renders economically productive the differentiated and dynamic value of urban spaces and populations; and involves flexible, provisional intervent…
Carceral Oversight
Since 2002, prisoners at Guantánamo Bay detention camp have been force-fed as punishment for hunger striking, prompting the question of at what point the medical clinic becomes a site of punitive suffering. This essay examines force-feeding as an instantiation of the tension between authority, visuality, and pain. Through a detailed analysis of prisoner testimonials, the policy manual Medical Management of Detainees on Hunger Strike, and a video …
Violence Work and the Police Order
As violence work, policing exceeds the institution of the police. Indeed, the latest bout of American invasions that cluster under the label "global war on terror" have been framed as policing operations by American officials as well as scholars. What, then, is the relationship between these two violence workers, the soldier and the police officer? Should we characterize violence work, from Ferguson to Fallujah, as "policing"? And if so, how? Wha…
To Protect and Serve Themselves
The police in the United States were once subject to control by political machines. The professionalization process freed police from this control, but it had an unexpected result. Professionalization meant that police answered primarily to themselves, which enabled them to become self-interested. This process transformed the police into a new type of authoritative political actor. This article examines the history and organizational sociology of…
Policing Intensity
How do everyday acts of policing hinge upon the contrastive evaluation of sensible intensities? This article examines how various attunements toward regimes of sensible intensities shape the policing of borders and bodies in a place where questions of the "sovereign" and identifications of the "illegal" are semiotically and politically up for grabs: the Indonesia-Malaysia borderlands. In two expository sketches, it examines the various ways in wh…
The Ground Was Always in Play
Without the people from Pakistan's Tribal Areas to narrate the visual evidence, one wouldn't necessarily know what one was looking at in the photos or videos of the aftermath of drone attacks. To tell their stories, they had moved through a territory pockmarked by bombs and checkpoints and drones and troops and fighters, but to those sitting in Islamabad or New York or London, these things signified that the territory was "wild" and its people th…
Fabricating Homeland Security
"Drones as "Atmospheric Policing
The use of drones to supplement and operationalize US border enforcement and municipal policing disturbs the supposed boundary between military and civilian or battleground and home front. Situating drones in an expanded field of a war power-police power nexus draws together histories of so-called small wars, insurgencies, civil rebellions, labor strikes, prison uprisings, and practices of resistance at various scales that have responded and cont…
Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants in Adwa District, Central Zone of Tigray Regional State, Northern Ethiopia
Background Medicinal plants have been used for ages in Ethiopia. Some 887 plant species have been documented to heal human and livestock health problems. Documenting the traditional use of medicinal plants is a vital step in obtaining information on bioactive chemicals, preserving indigenous knowledge and ultimately interesting, medicinal plant species. We conducted this study with the aim of documenting the ethnobotanical knowledge associated wi…
Policing Intensity
How do everyday acts of policing hinge upon the contrastive evaluation of sensible intensities? This article examines how various attunements toward regimes of sensible intensities shape the policing of borders and bodies in a place where questions of the "sovereign" and identifications of the "illegal" are semiotically and politically up for grabs: the Indonesia-Malaysia borderlands. In two expository sketches, it examines the various ways in wh…
Speculative Policing
This article develops a theorization of "speculative policing": an experimental, future-oriented form of policing that connects crime prevention to real-estate speculation and other forms of negotiating urban risk and uncertainty. Speculative policing works to establish a specific sociopolitical order; renders economically productive the differentiated and dynamic value of urban spaces and populations; and involves flexible, provisional intervent…
The Ground Was Always in Play
Without the people from Pakistan's Tribal Areas to narrate the visual evidence, one wouldn't necessarily know what one was looking at in the photos or videos of the aftermath of drone attacks. To tell their stories, they had moved through a territory pockmarked by bombs and checkpoints and drones and troops and fighters, but to those sitting in Islamabad or New York or London, these things signified that the territory was "wild" and its people th…
The Police Are the Punishment
Against the normative definition of punishment as the infliction of pain on an offender by an appropriate legal authority, this essay argues that the police, although they are not entitled to administer retribution, commonly do so on the street or at the precinct, including against innocent individuals. Such punishment is disproportionately imposed on working-class men from disadvantaged neighborhoods belonging to ethnoracial minorities. It is ju…
Elimination Politics
Focusing on punishment and imprisonment across three time periods, this essay explores the two-pronged attack on Palestinian politics that has characterized the settler-colonial project in Palestine over the past one hundred years. This double move entails an attempt to deny or destroy Palestinian political community, while simultaneously identifying Palestinians as political actors, specifically as bad actors. The aim is to undermine Palestinian…
The Exceptional Prison
Between 2013 and 2016, police in one Brazilian city killed 3,287 people-66.5 percent of whom were black. It might not seem surprising, then, that this place is also one of the only in the world that has a prison just for police. But this prison is exceptional, a "model" place, as those who run it say. It isn't "dungeon-like" or a "warehouse of black lives," as scholars describe prisons in this country and elsewhere. Among an apiary, a tilapia pon…
Violence Work and the Police Order
As violence work, policing exceeds the institution of the police. Indeed, the latest bout of American invasions that cluster under the label "global war on terror" have been framed as policing operations by American officials as well as scholars. What, then, is the relationship between these two violence workers, the soldier and the police officer? Should we characterize violence work, from Ferguson to Fallujah, as "policing"? And if so, how? Wha…
To Protect and Serve Themselves
The police in the United States were once subject to control by political machines. The professionalization process freed police from this control, but it had an unexpected result. Professionalization meant that police answered primarily to themselves, which enabled them to become self-interested. This process transformed the police into a new type of authoritative political actor. This article examines the history and organizational sociology of…
The Closing
This essay is an ethnographic analysis of the violent world of translation in Kabul, Afghanistan, and the provinces referred to in the general idiom of "the countryside" by Afghan translators who encounter rural subjects as part of an international military campaign. It begins with the tragedy of translation as an elegiac matter of the heart closing, and it attempts to understand the metaphor of closure alongside that of strangeness and (un)trans…
Technology and Critique
This special section grows out of “Technologies of Power,” a virtual series convened between fall 2021 and spring 2022, where twenty-one scholars, artists, writers, and activists gathered to examine the entanglements of empire, technology, and violence across the longue durée of the global “war on terror.” We interrogate how technologies—from maps, censuses, and drones to smartphones, platform governance, biometrics, and AI—mediate governance, su…
James Baldwin and the Anti-Black Force of Law
There has been a recent resurgence in attention to James Baldwin as academics, public intellectuals, filmmakers, and curators engage with his work through the lens of the Movement for Black Lives. Continuing this turn, I read Baldwin as a theorist of the law and, ultimately, an abolitionist. By reading "The Fire Next Time" (1963) and "No Name in the Street" (1972), I argue that policing in the United States is inherently organized by a(n) (il)log…
Carceral Oversight
Since 2002, prisoners at Guantánamo Bay detention camp have been force-fed as punishment for hunger striking, prompting the question of at what point the medical clinic becomes a site of punitive suffering. This essay examines force-feeding as an instantiation of the tension between authority, visuality, and pain. Through a detailed analysis of prisoner testimonials, the policy manual Medical Management of Detainees on Hunger Strike, and a video …
The Ground Was Always in Play
Without the people from Pakistan's Tribal Areas to narrate the visual evidence, one wouldn't necessarily know what one was looking at in the photos or videos of the aftermath of drone attacks. To tell their stories, they had moved through a territory pockmarked by bombs and checkpoints and drones and troops and fighters, but to those sitting in Islamabad or New York or London, these things signified that the territory was "wild" and its people th…
Bodycams and Gender Equity
Law enforcement agencies, community advocates and policymakers hope that the widespread adoption of police bodycams will alleviate racial disparities and reduce misconduct and use of force. Racial justice has been central to this conversation, but gender justice has not. This essay takes an intersectional, gendered look at bodycam policies, challenging the assumption that officers will act more fairly when they know they are being recorded. Bodyc…
The Police Are the Punishment
Against the normative definition of punishment as the infliction of pain on an offender by an appropriate legal authority, this essay argues that the police, although they are not entitled to administer retribution, commonly do so on the street or at the precinct, including against innocent individuals. Such punishment is disproportionately imposed on working-class men from disadvantaged neighborhoods belonging to ethnoracial minorities. It is ju…
The Closing
This essay is an ethnographic analysis of the violent world of translation in Kabul, Afghanistan, and the provinces referred to in the general idiom of "the countryside" by Afghan translators who encounter rural subjects as part of an international military campaign. It begins with the tragedy of translation as an elegiac matter of the heart closing, and it attempts to understand the metaphor of closure alongside that of strangeness and (un)trans…
Elimination Politics
Focusing on punishment and imprisonment across three time periods, this essay explores the two-pronged attack on Palestinian politics that has characterized the settler-colonial project in Palestine over the past one hundred years. This double move entails an attempt to deny or destroy Palestinian political community, while simultaneously identifying Palestinians as political actors, specifically as bad actors. The aim is to undermine Palestinian…
"Drones as "Atmospheric Policing
The use of drones to supplement and operationalize US border enforcement and municipal policing disturbs the supposed boundary between military and civilian or battleground and home front. Situating drones in an expanded field of a war power-police power nexus draws together histories of so-called small wars, insurgencies, civil rebellions, labor strikes, prison uprisings, and practices of resistance at various scales that have responded and cont…
The Exceptional Prison
Between 2013 and 2016, police in one Brazilian city killed 3,287 people-66.5 percent of whom were black. It might not seem surprising, then, that this place is also one of the only in the world that has a prison just for police. But this prison is exceptional, a "model" place, as those who run it say. It isn't "dungeon-like" or a "warehouse of black lives," as scholars describe prisons in this country and elsewhere. Among an apiary, a tilapia pon…
James Baldwin and the Anti-Black Force of Law
There has been a recent resurgence in attention to James Baldwin as academics, public intellectuals, filmmakers, and curators engage with his work through the lens of the Movement for Black Lives. Continuing this turn, I read Baldwin as a theorist of the law and, ultimately, an abolitionist. By reading "The Fire Next Time" (1963) and "No Name in the Street" (1972), I argue that policing in the United States is inherently organized by a(n) (il)log…
Speculative Policing
This article develops a theorization of "speculative policing": an experimental, future-oriented form of policing that connects crime prevention to real-estate speculation and other forms of negotiating urban risk and uncertainty. Speculative policing works to establish a specific sociopolitical order; renders economically productive the differentiated and dynamic value of urban spaces and populations; and involves flexible, provisional intervent…
Carceral Oversight
Since 2002, prisoners at Guantánamo Bay detention camp have been force-fed as punishment for hunger striking, prompting the question of at what point the medical clinic becomes a site of punitive suffering. This essay examines force-feeding as an instantiation of the tension between authority, visuality, and pain. Through a detailed analysis of prisoner testimonials, the policy manual Medical Management of Detainees on Hunger Strike, and a video …
Violence Work and the Police Order
As violence work, policing exceeds the institution of the police. Indeed, the latest bout of American invasions that cluster under the label "global war on terror" have been framed as policing operations by American officials as well as scholars. What, then, is the relationship between these two violence workers, the soldier and the police officer? Should we characterize violence work, from Ferguson to Fallujah, as "policing"? And if so, how? Wha…
To Protect and Serve Themselves
The police in the United States were once subject to control by political machines. The professionalization process freed police from this control, but it had an unexpected result. Professionalization meant that police answered primarily to themselves, which enabled them to become self-interested. This process transformed the police into a new type of authoritative political actor. This article examines the history and organizational sociology of…
Policing Intensity
How do everyday acts of policing hinge upon the contrastive evaluation of sensible intensities? This article examines how various attunements toward regimes of sensible intensities shape the policing of borders and bodies in a place where questions of the "sovereign" and identifications of the "illegal" are semiotically and politically up for grabs: the Indonesia-Malaysia borderlands. In two expository sketches, it examines the various ways in wh…
Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants in Adwa District, Central Zone of Tigray Regional State, Northern Ethiopia
Background Medicinal plants have been used for ages in Ethiopia. Some 887 plant species have been documented to heal human and livestock health problems. Documenting the traditional use of medicinal plants is a vital step in obtaining information on bioactive chemicals, preserving indigenous knowledge and ultimately interesting, medicinal plant species. We conducted this study with the aim of documenting the ethnobotanical knowledge associated wi…
Fabricating Homeland Security
Traditional uses of family Asteraceae in Ethiopia
Background: The Asteraceae family is one of the most widely used medicinal plant families in Ethiopia, playing a crucial role in traditional healthcare across diverse ethnic and ecological settings. Despite its importance, a comprehensive synthesis of ethnobotanical knowledge, phytochemical constituents, and therapeutic applications remains limited. Methods: A systematic review was conducted by searching multiple electronic databases for studies …
Technology and Critique
This special section grows out of “Technologies of Power,” a virtual series convened between fall 2021 and spring 2022, where twenty-one scholars, artists, writers, and activists gathered to examine the entanglements of empire, technology, and violence across the longue durée of the global “war on terror.” We interrogate how technologies—from maps, censuses, and drones to smartphones, platform governance, biometrics, and AI—mediate governance, su…
Distributed Empire
Beginning with a material and conceptual entry from the global South, this article theorizes drone warfare as an instance of what the author terms distributed empire. The US imperial formation has generally been reticent to establish formal colonies even as it projects power. This political logic has found sociotechnical form in its key technology—the weaponized drone. Media and US publics today are awash in techno-fetishist propaganda that touts…
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