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Remembering against sentimentality: Partition’s literary shadows in the work of Najm Hosain Syed

Anne Murphy

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature·2022·1 citations

Although Punjabi is written in two different scripts in India and Pakistan, there are striking parallels between the literary work in Punjabi produced on both sides of the India and Pakistan border that divides Punjab. Modern Punjabi literary works on both sides of the border express a generally progressive ( pragatīvādī, taraqqi pasand) set of political and social commitments; this is in keeping with the broader history of modern vernacular literary production in South Asia (Gopal, 2005). This essay explores further dimensions of the parallel literary commitments on both sides of the border, read against the legacy of the Partition, though a close reading of the works of Najm Hosain Syed (b. 1936), a leading writer in the Punjabi language advocacy movement in Pakistan. This exploration seeks to analyze the ways the Partition is configured in Syed’s work, and how he works to bring the past into the present — and the present into the past — against a kind of sentimental nostalgia that disengages from the political present.

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Women, Work and Public Spaces: Conflict and Coexistence in Karachi's Poor Neighborhoods

KAMRAN ASDAR ALI

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research·2011·15 citations

AbstractThis article focuses on how working‐class women encounter and negotiate economic uncertainty, social vulnerability and sexually threatening public spaces in contemporary Karachi, showcasing women's everyday experiences of social and physical violence as a microcosm of the city's life in order to explore the possibilities of a future politics for cities like Karachi that are haunted by the possibility of violent eruptions. By concentrating on people's everyday practices, it proposes a different register by which to understand cities and their politics, a register constituted by an emergent politics that is not always dependent on an analysis of conflict and friction, but which instead focuses on living with disagreements. Hence the article uses the ethnographic depiction of women's lives to understand the mechanisms through which people continue to coexist, share resources and work together, despite the endemic personal, social and political violence in Karachi's working‐class neighborhoods.RésuméCet article s'intéresse à la façon dont les femmes de la classe ouvrière affrontent et gèrent l'incertitude économique, la vulnérabilité sociale, ainsi que les espaces publics et leurs risques sexuels, dans le cadre contemporain de Karachi. Il présente les expériences de violence sociale et physique que connaissent les femmes au quotidien comme un microcosme de la vie urbaine afin d'examiner les possibilités d'une politique future pour des villes comme Karachi, hantées par le risque de violentes explosions. En s'attachant aux pratiques quotidiennes de la population, il propose un registre différent qui permet de comprendre les villes et leurs politiques, ce registre étant constitué par une politique nouvelle qui ne se définit pas forcément en fonction d'une analyse du conflit et des frictions, mais qui se consacre à la façon de vivre dans le désaccord. Cette étude utilise donc la représentation ethnographique de la vie des femmes pour appréhender les mécanismes grâce auxquels la population continue à coexister, partager des ressources et travailler ensemble, malgré la violence, à la fois individuelle, sociale et politique, endémique dans les quartiers ouvriers de Karachi.

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Partition and its echoes in Karachi: The political agencies of Fahmida Riaz and Perween Rahman

Amina Yaqin, Naiza Khan

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature·2022

This article, shaped as a conversation between a scholar and an artist, critically examines the mapping of the lived experience of Karachi after Partition through a discussion of the poetic journey of the feminist activist Fahmida Riaz and urban planner and architect Perween Rahman.1 These two activists were directly affected by the Partition, albeit in different ways, and it is through their creative practice that we try to understand the hauntings of the past in the present. This helps us to move beyond linear ways of interpreting the Indian Partition’s many effects on lived experiences of communities in Karachi. While Riaz writes of the death of metaphor and the inability of verse to capture the harsh realities of everyday life in a dystopian city, Rahman gives agency to the disenfranchised and dispossessed within the urban settlements of Karachi’s poor through a participatory model of community-based mapping. What emerges from the dialogue is a recreation of several voices across time and space that carry the echoes of Partition and the conditions that surround us now. It thereby offers a way to re-envision and reclaim an embodied form of mapping through memory and walking across disciplines to engender cultural change.

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City Everywhere

Neferti X.M. Tadiar

Theory, Culture & Society·2016·53 citations

This article explores the defining tendencies of urban expansion taking place in mega-cities of the Global South, as exemplified by recent trends in Metropolitan Manila and elsewhere. What I call the process of ‘uber-urbanization’ entails the construction of city emulants as platforms for the value-productive movements of globopolitical urban life, a fractal enterprise whose animating program involves the mediatization of human capacities in technologized forms of servitude. Such meditatized human capacities can be understood as comprising a kind of vital infrastructure exemplified in long-standing experimental, risk-taking, shifting, multi-tasking modes of living developed out of urban conditions in the Global South. I discuss the liquidity of such modes of living on the part of surplus populations and its temporal dynamics as the newly discovered resource undergirding the expansion of city everywhere.

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"Sharing, Not Showing Off": How BeReal Approaches Authentic Self-Presentation on Social Media Through Its Design

JaeWon Kim, Robert Wolfe, Ishita Chordia, Katie Davis, Alexis Hiniker

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction·2024·6 citations

Adolescents are particularly vulnerable to the pressures created by social media, such as heightened self-consciousness and the need for extensive self-presentation. In this study, we investigate how BeReal, a social media platform designed to counter some of these pressures, influences adolescents' self-presentation behaviors. We interviewed 29 users aged 13-18 to understand their experiences with BeReal. We found that BeReal's design focuses on spontaneous sharing, including randomly timed daily notifications and reciprocal posting, discourages staged posts, encourages careful curation of the audience, and reduces pressure on self-presentation. The space created by BeReal offers benefits such as validating an unfiltered life and reframing social comparison, but its approach to self-presentation is sometimes perceived as limited or unappealing and, at times, even toxic. Drawing on this empirical data, we propose design guidelines for platforms that support authentic self-presentation while fostering reciprocity and expanding beyond spontaneous photo-sharing. These guidelines aim to enable users to portray themselves more comprehensively and accurately, ultimately supporting teens' developmental needs, particularly in building authentic relationships.

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Privacy as Social Norm: Systematically Reducing Dysfunctional Privacy Concerns on Social Media

JaeWon Kim, Soobin Cho, Robert Wolfe, Jishnu Hari Nair, Alexis Hiniker

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction·2025·1 citations

Through co-design interviews (N=19) and a design evaluation survey (N=136) with U.S. teens ages 13-18, we investigated teens' privacy management on social media. Our study revealed that 28.1% of teens with public accounts and 15.3% with private accounts experience dysfunctional fear, that is, fear that diminishes their quality of life or paralyzes them from taking necessary precautions. These fears fall into three categories: fear of uncontrolled audience reach, fear of online hostility, and fear of personal privacy missteps. While current approaches often emphasize individual vigilance and restrictive measures, our findings show this can paradoxically lead teens to either withdraw from beneficial social interactions or resign themselves to accept privacy violations, viewing them as inevitable. Drawing on teen input, we developed and evaluated ten design prototypes that emphasize empowerment over fear, system-wide explicit emphasis on privacy, clear privacy norms, and flexible controls. Survey results indicate teens perceive these approaches as effectively reducing privacy concerns while preserving social benefits. Our findings suggest that platforms will be more likely to protect teens' privacy and less likely to manufacture unnecessary fear if they include designs that minimize the impact on other users, have low trade-offs with existing features, require minimal user effort, and function independently of community behavior. Such designs include: 1) alerting users about potentially unintentional personal information disclosure and 2) following up on user reports.

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