Bangladesh; Islam; Pakistan; riverine society; temporality of instability; vitalist philosophy; anthropology of religion; skepticism and the ordinary; law and literature; techniques and technologies of perception; soundscapes; urban and watery landscapes; and aspiration, utopianism and emergent rationalities. Modernity of Religion; Readings in Islam; Anthropology of the Senses; Modern South Asia: City and Everyday Life; Magic, Science and Religion; Modern South Asia: The Occult and Everyday Life; Film, Fate and Law; The Anthropology of Belief; Time and the Body; Anthropology of The Everyday; Back to the Future; Religion and Secularism; Modern South Asia: The Political Culture of Pakistan Naveeda Khan is assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She received her masters in anthropology from the New School for Social Research in 1995. She completed her PhD in anthropology from Columbia University in 2003, writing her doctoral dissertation on how sectarian violence is folded into everyday life through processes of mosque construction and violent seizures in Lahore, Pakistan. She is the recipient of several research and conference grants from foundations such as, SSRC, Fulbright, NSF, Wenner-Gren Foundation, American Institute of Pakistan Studies, and The American Philosophical Society. Naveeda has also worked at BRAC (Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, Bangladesh), UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Bangladesh), and the Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago). Naveeda has edited a book titled Beyond Crisis: Reevaluating Pakistan forthcoming from Routledge India. Her book manuscript titled: “The Promise in Pakistan: Aspiration, Skepticism and the Ordinary” is under review by a university press. She has begun research on the effects of climate change on riverine society in Bangladesh, which she approaches through the lens of temporality and vitalist philosophy. In addition Naveeda has written or is writing on the politics of gardening in colonial India, the concept-affect dyad of security in American politics, roads as discourse networks in Pakistan, the energetics of praetorianism in Pakistan, number in the Islamic imagination, and architecture in the era of cold war in Bangladesh. These writing projects were broadly conceived as part of her interest in changing urban landscapes, utopianism and emergent rationalities in the U.S. and South Asia. Crisis and Beyond: Reevaluating Pakistan Routledge India, forthcoming Translation and Introduction to “Letter to Maulana Muhammad Yusuf Ludhianvi” excerpted from Maulana Ludhianvi's Differences within the Community and the Right Path in Islam in South Asia in Practice ed. Barbara Metcalf, Princeton University Press, 2009 “The Martyrdom of Mosques: Imagery and Iconoclasm in Modern Pakistan” in Enchantments of Modernity ed. Saurabh Dube Routledge India, 2008 “The Speech of Generals: Some Meditations on Pakistan” posted on the SSRC Forum Pakistan in Crisis January 2nd 2008
http://www.ssrc.org/pakistancrisis “Of Children and Jinns: An Inquiry into an Unexpected Friendship During Uncertain Times” Cultural Anthropology, May 2006.
http://www.culanth.org/pakistan/ “Flaws in the Flow: Roads and their Modernity in Pakistan” Social Text, December 2006.
http://socialtext.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/24/4_89/87 “Trespasses of the State: Ministering the Copyright to Theological Dilemmas” Bare Acts, Sarai Reader 5, (CSDS, Delhi, 2005)
http://www.sarai.net/publications/readers/05-bare-acts/01_naveeda.pdf "Networks Actual and Potential: Think Tanks, War Games and the Creation of Contemporary American Politics" jointly authored with Bhrigu Singh, Deborah Poole and Richard Baxstrom,
Theory and Event. Johns Hopkins University Press. Volume 8, Issue 4,2005.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_and_event/v008/8.4singh.html
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