From Bara to Quetta to Palestine, we consider solidarity politics this month.
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Issue III: Solidarity Politics
Issue II: After the Floods | Introduction
Editors intro below the fold: English | اردو + “We Still Need Help” | Mir Changaiz Khan Jamali + Visiting the Floods in South Punjab | Photo Essay Help Tanqeed continue to bring you Conversations. Donate so we can move towards investigative journalism and feature reporting. And pay our reporters what they deserve.
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سیلاب کے بعد | اداریہ
English | اداریہ پڑھیں: اردو ہمیں ابھی بھی مدد کی ضرورت ہے” | میر چنگیز خان جمالی” + جنوبی پنجاب میں سیلاب کا دورہ | تصویریں +
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Floods are not (just) natural
English | اردو Flooding is as social as it is natural. We must deal with it holistically. On the surface, it seems that floods occur when nature acts outside the norm. The best response often seems to be an attempt to return to a pre-shock “normality” as quickly as possible. This is also the interpretation of...
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Drowned by Design
English | اردو We must address the role of multi-million rupee constructions in flooding the homes and lands of millions. This summer’s flash floods in southwest Punjab, northern Sindh and eastern Balochistan, have once again exposed the hazardous nature of water resource engineering in the Indus drainage basin. In 2010, barriers built to protect multi-million rupee...
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Why Class Matters
English | اردو Social power determines who gets hurt by floods and how much More years ago than I care to admit, I was doing field work for my Ph.D. research on flood hazards in central Punjab. I was struck at the time by how all the ‘educated’ high level government officials considered floods an act...
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How Hazards Become Disasters
English | اردو The development-industrial complex ignores the structural inequality that turns natural hazards into disasters. The state and global institutions of governance talk about disasters as a technical problem. They talk about disaster management using certain keywords and terms, such as vulnerability, risk reduction, and disaster preparedness. This techno-bureaucratic talk is rooted in an ideology that...
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