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Shelby House's book review for Muhammad Kavesh's publication, "Animal Enthusiasms: Beyond Cage and Leash in Rural Pakistan," was published in South Asia: The Journal of South Asian Studies. A full version of the review is available to read online.

This special edition of the Nordic Journal of Law and Social Research focuses on the Hunza Valley in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan. Drawing on a multi-author, interdisciplinary approach, the journal examines the political geography, anthropology, history, and civil society in the Hunza...

Suneel Kumar was a 2019 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research on the Indus River and delta for two months. Kumar collected data through traveling to different creeks, villages, working with fishermen and interviewing multiple government and non-government officials.

Asif Sandeelo was a 2022 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Karachi, Pakistan for two months. Sandeelo's research focused on "power dynamics in nature conservation through a case study of Taloor

Abdul Aijaz (Indiana Universty) was a 2017 Short-Term Research Grant awardee who sought to explore the hydro-social relationships in colonial and post-colonial India.

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...

Suneel Kumar was s 2019 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant Awardee. Kumar "travelled to Pakistan during summer 2019 to conduct preliminary research for an upcoming ethnographic work and collect ecological data on Indus river and delta."

The Choices Program at Brown University has produced a teaching resource about the Floods in Pakistan. It's aimed for high school students in the US, but perhaps also useful elsewhere.