Hiba Naeem | Of Oxygen Tanks and Housing Societies
18. Nov
6:15 pm, C40.530
A main research question of this study is to examine the experience of ‘the promise of modernity and progress’ materialised through infrastructural initiatives that claim to provide security and ‘western-style’ living, made possible by massive housing models like Bahria Town and numerous other development plans in Malir, Sindh. Gadap Town’s continued struggle against these projects, and its engagement with both state and non-state actors, revealed a contested view of what it means to ‘develop’ Karachi, a question raised by the Sindh Indigenous Rights Alliance. An extended study in Gadap Town through participant observation will then inform this ongoing project.
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. Beyond research work, Hiba work closely with the women’s and trans rights movement in Karachi, Pakistan.
Language: English
An event organized by the Research Initiative The Disruptive Condition
Contact: Nicolas Schneider (nicolas.schneider@leuphana.de)