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Drawing upon experience from attending a faculty development seminar in Lahore, Pakistan, Paul Edleman explores the meaning of space and how space is utilized in Lahore. Edleman argues that politics and space can be intertwined in the architecture of a city and the expression of the city's culture.

Maira Hayat (University of Chicago) was a 2013 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Lahore and Islamabad, Pakistan relating to water politics, specifically the community response to the New Lahore Ravi Megaproject

Tariq Rahman (University of California-Irvine) was a 2017 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant who spent 3 months in Pakistan "to better understand the specific struggles, conflicts, alliances, and exercises of power through which the housing scheme emerged as the quintessential form of urban planning in...

Rehan Jamil (Brown University) was a 2016 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted 3 months of research in Karachi, Pakistan. Jamil sought to "identify the causal factors that explain why certain settlements [in Karachi] have much higher public goods provision, while others have little...

Ahsan Kamal was a 2018 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who performed research in Pakistan to study the resettlement programs as a result of dam constructions.

Luke Sonnet (UCLA) was a 2017 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who explored electricity generation and load shedding in Pakistan. Sonnet was particularly interested in the intersection between load shedding and governance in Pakistan.

Maira Hayat offers this critical analysis of the tensions relating to water use and local politics from an anthropological standpoint. Water use in Pakistan has become increasingly politicized as local governments attempt to navigate the needs of local cultivators and farmers while reconciling with...