Political ecology, climate governance, water, and the Sindh.
My writing sits at the intersection of political ecology, climate governance, and the specific history of the Indus — for practitioners, policymakers, and anyone trying to understand what climate change looks like in a place that has been managing water for five thousand years.
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An examination of how flood-affected kacho communities bear disproportionate climate burdens under Pakistan's water governance structures. The dissertation situates local experience within the broader history of colonial barrage engineering, postcolonial dam politics, and the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty as a rupture in the ecological continuity of the river. It asks: whose adaptation counts, and who pays for whose resilience?
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How barrage engineering, postcolonial dam construction, and the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty unmade a river system. From the British colonial hydraulic project through the political economy of water allocation in Pakistan, to the present crisis in Sindh's riverine communities.
A policy essay on flood-affected kacho communities and the equity dimensions of Pakistan's disaster governance. Examines the gap between resettlement frameworks and the spatial reality of floodplain life — and why that gap costs lives.
Ecological disruption as political history. The invasion of Prosopis juliflora across Sindh's riverine landscape is not just an agricultural problem — it is a symptom of the broader hydraulic and institutional disruption of the Indus system.
Translation from Sindhi of Abdul Qadir Mangi's biography of Watayo Faqir. A meditation on Sindhi Sufi tradition, ecological knowledge, and the political philosophy embedded in classical Sindhi poetry.
Chapter-by-chapter English translation of Aashiq Mangi's literary memoir about Abdul Qadir Mangi. A documentation of Sindhi literary and political memory through the twentieth century.