Mr Muhammad Ali Nasir
Current affiliation: Ruprecht Karls Universitat Heidelberg
Subject: Political Science
Primary location: Germany
Cantonments in Karachi, Pakistan
Published in:Contemporary South Asia
Publication date:2014-10-02What's it about?This article beings by reading the history of cantonments in South Asia. It then studies the way they operate at present. This is done by focusing ...
Logic of the Absurd
Published in:Administrative Theory & Praxis
Publication date:2012-03-01Reading Kafka in a Kafkaesque World
Identity Discourses in Colonial India
Published in:History and Sociology of South Asia
Publication date:2015-01-01Reflections on post-1857 Islamic Political Thought in Colonial India
Free Speech as Govermentality
Published in:Social & Legal Studies
Publication date:2016-02-01On the Governmentality of Free Speech
What's it about?This articles presents the right to freedom of expression as an aspect of a governmental power.
Religion as Governmentality
Published in:Philosophy & Social Criticism
Publication date:2015-06-15What's it about?This article approaches the category of religion as governmentality. The argument is present by focusing on the right to freedom of religion.
Between the metropole and the postcolony: On the dynamics of rights’ machinery from the northwestern tribal belt to the “mainland” Pakistan
Published in:Environment and Planning D Society and Space
Publication date:2015-12-01
Biopolitics, Thanatopolitics and the Right to Life
Published in:Theory Culture & Society
Publication date:2017-01-01What's it about?The right to life is a fundamental human right. This article explores the link between human rights and biopolitics. It argues that proper guarante...
Droning, zoning and organizing: Kafkaesque reflections on the nomos of the earth in the northwestern tribal belt of Pakistan
Published in:Space and Polity
Publication date:2015-09-02What's it about?Drone warfare cannot be understood without taking into geographical, legal, and normative aspects of contemporary political order into account. Thi...