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This article traces (dis)continuities in colonial logics across disjunctures of decolonisation and democratisation through a large infrastructure project in contemporary Lahore, Pakistan. Analysing Lahore’s Orange Line Metro Train, a project constructed under China Pakistan Economic Corrido...
Haider Shahbaz was a 2023 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Pakistan for four months. Shahbaz's research focuses on the anti colonial relations between Pakistan and Africa during a long period of decolonization, and specifically explores the ways in which radical Urdu...
Sharmeen Mehri was a 2023 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Karachi for two months. Mehri's research documents the history of the Dr. Dastur Dhalla Library (popularly known as the YMZA library) and its contents, grasping the full picture of what affluent and/or...
Osama Ahmad was a 2023 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Lahore for one month. Ahmad's research focuses on Urdu print culture in mid-nineteenth century colonial Lahore and how it led to the formation of the Urdu Bazaar, which endures today.
Omar Gondal was a 2023 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Okara and Lahore for three months. Gondal's research uses a novel field experiment to explore how introducing a new technology to potato farmers affects informal bargaining and contracting between farmers and...