Bangladesh: riparian society, engineered landscapes and the political theology of climate change; Pakistan: Islam and everyday life; urban anthropology; religion and theology; law and literature; techniques and technologies of perception; U.S. and South Asia: temporality and emergent rationalities. The Animal in Anthropology; Invitation to Anthropology; Political Culture of Pakistan; Time in Anthropology; Religion and Secularism; Back to the Future; Anthropology of the Everyday; Anthropology of the Senses; Anthropology of Belief; Film, Fate and Law; The Occult in South Asia; Magic, Science and Religion; Readings in Islam; The City in South Asia; South Asian Religions. Naveeda Khan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She received her bachelors in history from Vassar College in 1992 and her masters in anthropology from the New School for Social Research in 1995. She completed her doctorate in anthropology from Columbia University in 2003, writing her dissertation on how sectarian violence is folded into Muslim everyday life through processes of mosque construction and violent seizures in Lahore, Pakistan. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University between 2003 and 2006. She has received several research and conference grants from foundations such as the SSRC, Fulbright, NSF and the American Institute of Pakistan Studies. 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 Beyond Crisis: Reevaluating Pakistan (Routledge India 2010) whose articles bring together some of the most empirical and theoretically ambitious recent research on Pakistan. Her book manuscript titled The Library of Becoming: Pakistan under Aspiration and Skepticism, based on her doctoral and postdoctoral research, is forthcoming from Duke University Press. The book proposes a different mode of re-attending to the history and present of religiosity in Pakistan, that is, through the twin concepts of aspiration and skepticism in order to see excess rather than lack therein. This shift in perspective is to draw into view the potential or the realm of the virtual that accompanies the actual in everyday Islam in Pakistan. With funding from the American Philosophical Society, Wenner-Gren Foundation and the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies, Naveeda has begun a new long-term research project on the effects of climate change on the riparian landscape and society in Bangladesh. In addition Naveeda has written on town planning in colonial India, the concept-affect dyad of security in U.S. politics, roads in Pakistan, the discursive politics of the military 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 temporality and emergent rationalities in the U.S. and South Asia. Riparian Society, Engineered Landscapes and Bangladesh “Geddes in India: Town Planning, Plant Sentience, Cooperative Evolution” Environment and Planning (D) Forthcoming Islam, Everyday Life and Pakistan The Library of Becoming: Pakistan between Aspiration and Skepticism. Forthcoming from Duke University Press. “The Acoustics of Muslim Striving: Loudspeaker Use in Ritual Practice in Pakistan” Comparative Studies on Society and History (CSSH). Forthcoming. “Images that come Unbidden: Some Thoughts on the Danish Cartoon Controversy” special issue of Borderlands on Religion and Sexuality. 9(3), 2010
http://www.borderlands.net.au/issues/vol9no3.html “Introduction” Beyond Crisis: Reevaluating Pakistan, Routledge, 2010. “Mosque Construction, Or the Violence of the Ordinary” Beyond Crisis: Reevaluating Pakistan, Routledge, 2010. “Maulana Yusuf Ludhianvi on the Limits of Legitimate Religious Difference” in Islam in South Asia in Practice ed. Barbara Metcalf, Princeton University Press, 2009, pp. 438-446. “The Martyrdom of Mosques: Imagery and Iconoclasm in Modern Pakistan” in Enchantments of Modernity ed. Saurabh Dube, Routledge, 2008, pp. 372-401. “Of Children and Jinns: An Inquiry into an Unexpected Friendship During Uncertain Times” Cultural Anthropology vol 21(6), May 2006, pp. 234-264. Republished in Ali Khan ed. Oxford in Pakistan: Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology, 2011 and in abridged form in Diane Mines and Sarah Lamb eds. Everyday Life in South Asia, 2010. “Trespasses of the State: Ministering the Copyright to Theological Dilemmas” Bare Acts, Sarai Reader 5, (CSDS, Delhi, 2005), pp. 178-188. http://www.sarai.net/publications/readers/05-bare-acts/01_naveeda.pdf Landscape, Temporality and Emergent Rationalities “Future Imbued Movements: Ayub Khan’s Legacy for Pakistan” article under review. Co-editor with Jane I. Guyer and Juan Obarrio of “Number as Inventive Frontier,” special issue of Anthropological Theory May 2010. “The Speech of Generals: Some Meditations on Pakistan” refereed and posted on the SSRC Forum Pakistan in Crisis January 2nd 2008?
http://www.ssrc.org/pakistancrisis “Flaws in the Flow: Roads and their Modernity in Pakistan” Social Text Winter 2006, pp. 87-113. "Networks Actual and Potential: Think Tanks, War Games and the Creation of Contemporary American Politics" co-authored with Bhrigupati Singh, Deborah Poole and Richard Baxstrom, Theory and Event, September 2005.
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