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Narrating Hauntings Everywhere: Towards the Edges of Territorial Pakistan

This conversation works to unsettle the territorial enclosure of the postcolonial Pakistani state by raising a series of interdisciplinary questions. Through an intertextual reading of Pakistani-American artist and printmaker Zarina Hashmi (1937-2020) and the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), I offer an alternative account to the ongoing militarization of the Pakistani state that has continued to dispossess the most marginal living today in Pakistan. More broadly, I place the Pakistani context within a transnational feminist framework thinking about how historical crossings in the fifteenth century onwards build a critical language to anchor ongoing questions of political violence in the twenty-first century.

Atif Khan
Visual Studies
University of Toronto