Decolonizing (applied) linguistics in Pakistan There is a growing tendency globally that suggests decolonizing the social sciences by disrupting colonial legacies. It is argued that the social sciences, including the field of linguistics, are heavily influenced by...
On White Ignorance and being a security problem What happens… when the researched become the researchers?1 W. E.B. Du Bois, in his celebrated work ‘The Souls of Black Folk’, articulates a question that persists between him and the other world, ‘how does it feel to be...
Hegemony of Media Misrepresentation: New York Times’ Representation of the Israel-Palestine Conflict The media does not operate in a vacuum from social, cultural, and political contexts. Its visualizations, texts, and reporting cannot be considered an isolated...
Western hegemonic discourse on ‘Pakistan’ and the absence of counter-discourse from Pakistan: An introspective study Disciplines entail power relations. In the discipline of International Relations, power, which is exercised in the form of ‘epistemic privilege’ by the...
The Intellectual Market is Rigged: Militarized Knowledge and the US Elite Think-Tank Network Readers interested in global politics can be divided into two categories: those who are generally interested in the affairs of the world and want to keep themselves current...
A Critical Security Studies approach to Regional Security: SAARC during COVID 19 Crisis Abstract Due to the global and transverse dimension of the COVID-19 pandemic, the human security approach has found relevance in the policy corridors and prompted interest in...