Umair Javed

Left parties after leaderless revolutions and populism - Lefteast Originally published in Turkish in Ayrıntı Dergi: a Quarterly of Socialist Politics and Culture, and translated with the help of Tilbe Akan. Since the 1970s, the world left has gradually lost its clai...

I mapped out three defeated strategies of the last five decades and started a sketch of emergent paths.
lefteast.org/left-parties...
A few basic points:
"Since the 1970s, the world left has gradually lost its claim to represent the total liberation of humanity from capitalism and imperialism. 1/

My students came up with an exquisite title for their presentation on precarity and informality in Pakistan’s music industry

Getting some real early 2010 feels now

Following the Prophet’s Sunnah: Class, Piety, and Power in a Pakistani Bazaar Contemporary accounts tend to analyze Islamist actors in Pakistan from either a State-centered or militancy and regional security perspective, leading to an under-appreciation of the cultural dynamics...

4) On class, religion, and inequality in Pakistan's informal bazaar economy: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

The Rise and Fall of Imran Khan Elections held in Pakistan in February witnessed an upsurge of support for the incarcerated former prime minister Imran Khan, despite a brutal wave of military-led suppression. This essay looks at the...

3) On populist rupture and the social foundations of authoritarianism in Pakistan catalyst-journal.com/2024/06/the-...

Vaccine Hesitancy among Informal Workers: Gendered Geographies of Informality in Lahore What is the relationship between trust in the state and vaccine hesitancy among a marginalized sub-population? This article explores attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccination programmes of informal work....

2) On informality, gender, and state-society relations during the pandemic: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Democracy, Legitimacy, and Mega‐Project Politics: The Evolution of Lahore’s First BRT Corridor This paper studies the politics surrounding the implementation of Pakistan’s first mass transit project, the Lahore Bus Rapid Transit corridor completed in 2013, to interrogate the role that infrastr...

Hi all. I teach sociology & study the politics of informality & urban development (mostly in Pakistan).

Not to go all LinkedIn here, but am sharing some of my recent writings in this thread.

1) On democracy & urban infrastructure in the Global South onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Should earnestly seek refuge here from the avalanche of right wing drivel on that other app.

Peter Baker teaching his kid all that matters: laundering right wing agitprop in passive tense reasonable concern language. Not teaching his kid: basic decency and manners

The DC march was one of the largest I've ever been to and it def *felt* larger than the march in London last week.

Disrupted City | The New Press The city of Lahore was more than one thousand years old when it went through a violent schism. As the South Asian subcontinent was partitioned in 1947 to gain freedom from Britain’s colonial hold, a...

On the publisher website is more legit no?

Revisiting this all-time great

Laleh Khalili · Woke Capital · LRB 7 September 2023 These days, the debate about the balance of private and public investment in the Global South has been settled in favour...

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

and Aaron Allston's Wraith Squadron ones too!

RETHINKING LYARI AND BALOCH WOMEN "Struggle" is the genre the archive authorises for the Baloch in Pakistan.

Superb essay on gendered struggles and community representation by Adeem Suhail