Hiba Naeem: "Samandar Ki Chori (the stolen sea): Gendered Perspectives on Climate Change in Sindh"
13. May
6:00 pm, C40.530
Development projects amid unfinished, abandoned skyscrapers placed under stay orders and new construction plans across South Asia convey varied promises of progress as conservation efforts undertaken by state and non-state stakeholders, corporations, and NGOs ascribe value-making or depletion to nature and local communities. Focusing on the ambivalent geography of women and children working in the informal economy of urban Karachi, I explore the preexisting inequalities experienced under neoliberal imaginations as changing microclimates lead to frequent displacement and the slow erasure of local knowledge and practices of subsistence farming, embroidery, and sewing.
Hiba Naeem is a doctoral student at Leuphana University Lüneburg, part of the Disruptive Condition research initiative. Her project, "Floods, Debris, and Mangroves: Ecological Warfare in South Asian Anglophone Literature," examines disruption and crisis in South Asia through a cross-disciplinary approach, combining literary analysis with an ethnographic study of Indigenous Sindhi and Baloch communities and their land.
Language: English
An event organized by the Research Initiative The Disruptive Condition
Contact: Nicolas Schneider (nicolas.schneider@leuphana.de)