Member Highlights

Maira Hayat S.S. Pirzada Dissertation Prize

Friday, February 28, 2020

Congratulations to AIPS Member and past Fellowship Awardee Maira Hayat who was recently announced as the recipient of the 2019 S.S. Pirzada Dissertation Prize in Pakistan Studies! Maira's won the award for her dissertation, titled "Ecologies of Water Governance in Pakistan: The Colony, the Corporation & the Contemporary."

Sheetal Chhabria's "Making the Modern Slum"

Friday, February 21, 2020

AIPS Member, Sheetal Chhabria's new book "Making the Modern Slum: The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay" was recently published with UWashington Press Global South Asia Series. "Sheetal locates the origins of Bombay's now-infamous "slum problem" in the broader histories of colonialism and capitalism. She not only challenges assumptions about colonial urbanization and cities in the Global South but also provides a new analytical approach to urban history".

Matthew Hull Book Prize

Friday, February 21, 2020

Matthew Hull recently won the 2019 J.I. Staley Prize for his book, "Government of Paper: The Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan." The J.I. Staley Prize is awarded annually to an author who exemplifies outstanding scholarship and writing in anthropology. Matthew's book "goes beyond traditional frontiers and dominant schools of thought in anthropology and adds new dimensions to the field." Congratulations Matthew!

Jeffery Redding on the Transgender Rights Act

Friday, February 21, 2020

Jeffery Redding recently published his work titled "The Pakistan Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act of 2018 and its Impacts on the Law of Gender in Pakistan" in the Australian Journal of Asian Law. Redding explores both the changes to the official 'law of gender' in Pakistan as a result of the law and some criticisms.

"The Ethics of Staying: Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan"

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Mubbashir Rizvi, AIPS Executive Committee Member, was interviewed on Chapati Mystery about his new book titled, The Ethics of Staying: Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan. Rizvi uses his original framework, the Anjuman Mazarin Punjab (AMP), to examine state and society relations in Pakistan.