Read my recent essay on the depoliticization of education and the docility of students in Pakistani educational institutes for The Friday Times. thefridaytimes.com/19-Mar-2025/th…

The Pakistani education system suppresses students' political voices, rendering classrooms apolitical and students docile. This depoliticisation, enforced through discipline and policy, hinders democratic progress. By Jamal Nasir Jamal Nasir Read more👇 thefridaytimes.com/19-Mar-2025/th…

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My review essay in FJSS. The essay argues that while Byung-Chul Han offers a nuanced critique of contemporary times, he lacks methodological rigor and doesn’t emancipate the cultural components of the global south, making his theories largely Eurocentric. fccollege.edu.pk/wp-content/upl…

You need to read Foucault's Birth of clinic and perhaps a little history of science and perhaps some work of Kuhn. Agamben, too.

My disagreement resides in the perpetuation of Eurocentric sociology integrated with positivism. Doctors need to (de) learn knowledge politics. The previous generation didn't politicize the 'doctory'.

Thank you very much. Appreciate this.

I just heard from our editor that the Bloomsbury - A Cultural History of Technology is set for publication next year! I contributed with a chapter on seventeenth-century food technologies and can’t wait to see this comprehensive volume in print soon!

My debut column for The Washington Post: The end of the (prelapsarian) Trump-Modi bromance washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/…

If the relative 'peace' of the post-War II Pax Americana is over, we need a different kind of sociology: * Article: How Pacifist Were the Founding Fathers?: War and Violence in Classical Sociology. By Sinisa Malesevic. European Journal of Social Theory, 13 (2), pp. 193-212

Excited to share that my article on the origins of capitalism in Punjab is out with Cambridge University Press’s International Review of Social History: doi.org/10.1017/S00208… Very much looking forward to critique/comments from those interested.

Women in bonded labour at brick kilns face violence, poverty, and silence, their voices unheard despite legal abolition decades ago. By Jamal Nasir Read more: thefridaytimes.com/09-Sep-2025/wo… #SubalternStudies #Labour #Pakistan #women #brickkiln #HumanRightsViolations #gender

Generational exploitation traps women and children in harsh work at Pakistan’s brick kilns, exposing systemic neglect and structural injustice. By Jamal Nasir Read more: thefridaytimes.com/09-Sep-2025/wo… #SubalternStudies #Labour #Pakistan #women #brickkiln #HumanRightsViolations #gender

Professor Sinisa Malešević explains how nationalism evolves, from colonial struggles to AI’s impact on identity and power in today’s global politics. By Jamal Nasir Read more: thefridaytimes.com/23-Sep-2025/co… #Nationalism #postcolonialstates #globalisation #AI #Pakistan #India #politics

Read my interview with Professor Sinisa Malesevic on nationalism for The Friday Times thefridaytimes.com/23-Sep-2025/co…

It was a pleasure speaking with Jamal Nasir for the The Friday Times

A political fallout thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/134… Ilhan Niaz Mazhar Abbas Umar Cheema Khalid Umar Rajoka sohaib riaz bodla Aasim Sajjad Akhtar Ammar Ali Jan Mustafa Hyder Sayed PILDAT, Pakistan احمد بلال محبوبAhmedBilalMehboob Kissan Pakistan Musadaq Zulqarnain Ayesha Bakhsh Suhail Warraich

A major issue with even the 'academic' historians of Pakistan has been their secular-liberal commitments/leanings that are subtly present in their analyses and overviews of the country's ideological history & conflicts and which ultimately shape their perspectives in

I seriously don't get this obsession with coding around qualitative research. When did this shift happen? I still enjoy analysing my data without software.

Wrote about AI and journalism -- not the apocalypse version, just the quieter truth: the industry was wobbling long before the machines arrived. But Punjab Uni students asking genuinely curious, thoughtful questions? That gives me hope. Read here: thenews.pk/print/1382218-…