About
I am a human geographer working in the broad ambit of Marxist and post-colonial/anti-colonial theory, with a focus on Pakistan specifically and the global South generally. I have a particular interest in the works and uptakes of Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, and Frantz Fanon.
My publications in English and Urdu have explored a range of issues in social and geographical theory: including social movements and labour, state theory, urban development and restructuring, imperialism and dependency, post-/anti-colonial literature, and the relationship between “particular” and “universal” in social theory and political practice
My academic work has appeared in Historical Materialism, Studies in Political Economy, Urban Geography, Antipode, Political Geography, EPA: Economy and Space, and Tarikh [History]. I am also part of the editorial collective of the radical geography journal Antipode.
In addition, I do lots of public engagement work through regular articles, interviews, and podcasts for popular outlets. My writing and interviews have appeared in venues such as Jacobin, The News, Novara Media, Socialist Project, and BBC Urdu.
I am currently working on a monograph emerging from my doctoral dissertation. The monograph, tentatively titled "The (Un)Making of the Working Class in Karachi, 1980s-2020s", traces the social and political evolution of the working class in Karachi, Pakistan while contributing to debates in urban geography, development studies, sociology, and literary criticism. I completed my undergraduate education from the University of Oxford and graduate studies at York University (Toronto).