Professor Laleh Khalili speaks on war-making and capital accumulation in the making of the transport infrastructures of the Arabian Peninsula.
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Posts Tagged ‘ infrastructure ’
Quartermasters of Capital | Professor Laleh Khalili | VIDEO
Making Karachi
If displacement is a strategy targeting de facto non-citizens, then upper-middle class urban Muslims emerge as the true citizens of Pakistan.
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Paved with Intentions: The China-Pak Corridor
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is more likely to cement unequal relationships than pave the way to a modern Pakistan. Issue 9
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TQ Salon | Electrifying Development
We must place the era of Pakistani state developmentalism in the geopolitical and ideological context of the early Cold War and the decolonization of Asia and Africa.
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TQ Salon | Private Investors, Public Disasters
History doesn’t seem to dent the ideological commitment to bringing private investment and ownership to electricity infrastructure.
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How the British Did it Better
English | اردو In a relentless pursuit of growth and development, the Pakistani state has ignored colonial-era strategies—that took natural risks, like monsoon floods, into consideration. The Indus River is unique in more ways than one. If we ignore this, we do so at our own peril. In the last three decades, or more, the Pakistani...
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