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Umair Javed

@umairjav.bsky.social
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Interested in politics, development, informality, (mostly in) South Asia | Asst. Prof Sociology, LUMS | LFC +🇵🇰 cricket fan

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Cihan Tugal @cihantugal.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
I mapped out three defeated strategies of the last five decades and started a sketch of emergent paths. lefteast.org/left-parties... A few basic points: "Since the 1970s, the world left has gradually lost its claim to represent the total liberation of humanity from capitalism and imperialism. 1/
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Left parties after leaderless revolutions and populism - Lefteast
Originally published in Turkish in Ayrıntı Dergi: a Quarterly of Socialist Politics and Culture, and translated with the help of Tilbe Akan. Since the 1970s, the world left has gradually lost its clai...
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Umair Javed @umairjav.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
My students came up with an exquisite title for their presentation on precarity and informality in Pakistan’s music industry
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Umair Javed @umairjav.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hi all. I teach sociology & study the politics of informality & urban development (mostly in Pakistan). Not to go all LinkedIn here, but am sharing some of my recent writings in this thread. 1) On democracy & urban infrastructure in the Global South onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Democracy, Legitimacy, and Mega‐Project Politics: The Evolution of Lahore’s First BRT Corridor
This paper studies the politics surrounding the implementation of Pakistan’s first mass transit project, the Lahore Bus Rapid Transit corridor completed in 2013, to interrogate the role that infrastr...
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Umair Javed @umairjav.bsky.social · 10/08/2024
Should earnestly seek refuge here from the avalanche of right wing drivel on that other app.
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shahidkhan.bsky.social @shahidkhan.bsky.social · 05/05/2024
Peter Baker teaching his kid all that matters: laundering right wing agitprop in passive tense reasonable concern language. Not teaching his kid: basic decency and manners
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Umair Javed @umairjav.bsky.social · 05/11/2023
The DC march was one of the largest I've ever been to and it def *felt* larger than the march in London last week.
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sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
On the publisher website is more legit no?
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Disrupted City | The New Press
The city of Lahore was more than one thousand years old when it went through a violent schism. As the South Asian subcontinent was partitioned in 1947 to gain freedom from Britain’s colonial hold, a...
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Umair Javed @umairjav.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
Revisiting this all-time great
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Umair Javed @umairjav.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Laleh Khalili · Woke Capital · LRB 7 September 2023
These days, the debate about the balance of private and public investment in the Global South has been settled in favour...
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Umair Javed @umairjav.bsky.social · 23/08/2023
Superb essay on gendered struggles and community representation by Adeem Suhail
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RETHINKING LYARI AND BALOCH WOMEN
"Struggle" is the genre the archive authorises for the Baloch in Pakistan.
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