International Conference on Alexander in Sindh
Book: Urban Architecture and Local Spaces in Pakistan by Suneela Ahmed
Suneela Ahmed, 2023, Urban Architecture and Local Spaces in Pakistan, Routledge.
This book is set in Karachi, Pakistan and investigates the possibility of achieving localness through identifying urban process and their impact on built form, addressing how locals associate with the urban spaces and how they value it. Thus, the investigation, using the local terminology maqamiat, goes beyond the physicality of space and develops a framework that helps to understand the social, ethnic, economic, ecological and other the non-physical aspects of space, which are of value to the locals. The Continue reading Book: Urban Architecture and Local Spaces in Pakistan by Suneela Ahmed
Book: Le capitalisme à main armée. Caïds et patrons à Karachi
Laurent Gayer, 2022, Le capitalisme à main armée. Caïds et patrons à Karachi, CNRS Edition, Paris, 416 pages.
“Le 11 septembre 2012, 255 ouvriers et ouvrières des Ali Enterprises, fabriquant des jeans pour le compte du groupe allemand KiK, périssent dans l’incendie de leur usine à Karachi. Accident ou attentat ? La tragédie suscite des interprétations contradictoires. Faut-il incriminer les logiques prédatrices de la fast-fashion ou les méthodes mafieuses des partis politiques qui ont mis la ville en coupe réglée ? Continue reading Book: Le capitalisme à main armée. Caïds et patrons à Karachi
Book: Sindh under the Mughals
Humera Naz, 2022, Sindh under the Mughals, Origin and Development of Historiography (1591–1737 CE), Oxford University Press, Karachi, 280 pages.
“[This] book is a major contribution to the history of Sindh, and consequently to that of Pakistan and South Asia. Beyond the excellence of the research, it must be emphasized that, if the reign of the Mughal rulers has been studied in detail, it is mainly in the imperial context, namely from the centres of power they had created and developed in northern India … Dr Naz has shifted the focus, producing an innovative perspective on how the Mughals exercised power in territories relatively far from the imperial centres, but above all she reveals the leading role they played in developing historiography through the spread of several literary genres. Thus, Dr Naz’s work renews the field of Mughal studies, but at the same time, it is much more than that.”
Authority and Transmission of knowledge through the plural forms of Mediatisation in South Asian Religions (ATMA)
Seminar orgaized by:
- Michel Boivin, directeur de recherche au CNRS(TH)
- Delphine Ortis, chargée de cours à l’INALCO
- Saba Sindhri, doctorante à l’EHESS (CEIAS)
- https://enseignements.ehess.fr/2022-2023/ue/924
Wednesday 4 January 2023 – 10h00-13h00
Room A202 – EHESS – Campus Condorcet
2, rue des Humanités, 93322 Aubervilliers
Virtual room link: https://bbb.ehess.fr/b/mic-f0w-by3-b4x
The Udero Lal research Project (ULRP): A workshop
The Udero Lal research Project (ULRP) at the crossroads of architecture, Urban Studies, history and anthropology: an overview of a French-Pakistani project
14th of December 2022
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