Author: Shazia Rahman File Type: pdf While news reports about Pakistan tend to cover Taliban attacks and bombings, and academics focus on security issues, the environment often takes a backseat in media reportage and scholarship. In particular, Pakistani womens attachment to their environment and their environmental concerns are almost always ignored. Shazia Rahman traces the ways in which Pakistani women explore alternative, environmental modes of belonging, examines the vitality of place-based identities within Pakistani culture, and thereby contributes to evolving understandings of Pakistani womenin relation to both their environment and to various discourses of nation and patriarchy. Through an astute analysis of such works as Sabiha Sumars Khamosh Pani (2003), Mehreen Jabbars Ramchand Pakistani (2008), Sorayya Khans Noor (2006), Uzma Aslam Khans Trespassing (2003), and Kamila Shamsies Burnt Shadows (2009),Rahman illuminates how Pakistani womens creative works portray how people live with one another, deal with their environment, and intuit their relationship with the spiritual. She considers how literary and cinematic documentation of place-based identities simultaneously critiques and counters stereotypes of Pakistan as a country of religious nationalism and oppressive patriarchy. Rahmans analysis discloses fresh perspectives for thinking about the relationship between social and environmental justice.Review Shazia Rahman brings a fine literary critical sensibility to a postcolonial, ecofeminist reading of contemporary Pakistani novels and films. Her ethically charged book offers a fresh . . . engagement with cultural production from Pakistan, an enormously important part of South Asia that is nevertheless often neglected in postcolonial studies.Ananya Jahanara Kabir, author of Partitions Post-Amnesias 1947, 1971, and Modern South Asia (Ananya Jahanara Kabir 2018-09-21) This is an urgent and consequential book on the deep entanglements between gender politics and environmental justice. Shazia Rahman brings into conversation for the first time an impressive array of ecological thought leaders and Pakistani writers and film makers. Impressive, vital work.Rob Nixon, author of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Rob Nixon 2018-11-19) By foregrounding attachments to Pakistan as a placecomprising land, sea, plants, and animals Place and Postcolonial Ecofeminism probes the important but overlooked relationship between women and the environment through a critical analysis of patriarchal structures of land ownership and social control that underpin the political and moral economy of Pakistan. Reading novels and feature films against the grain from an ecological perspective reveals the myriad ways of environmental belonging experienced by women at key moments in Pakistans history. Innovative in its use of methodologies in environmental humanities and postcolonial analysis, Place and Postcolonial Ecofeminism is a welcome intervention to the incipient debate on women and ecological degradation in Pakistan and will enrich understandings of self, place, and belonging beyond the narrow confines of the postcolonial states official nationalism.Ayesha Jalal, Mary Richardson Professor of History and director of the Center for South Asian andIndian Ocean Studies at Tufts University (Ayesha Jalal 2018-09-14) This book addresses the silence in the environmental humanities and in the academy regarding Pakistani womens literary and cinematic fictions.Rahman conducts a nuanced analysis of Pakistani womens lives, particularly in terms of how they engage with land, animals, ecology, and sense of place.She delves into the ways that Pakistani literature and cinema are revealing alternative, environmental ways of belonging that women create to counter dominant discourses of religious nationalism and global Islam. This book will be required reading not only among ecocritics, but among feminist, postcolonial, ethnic, Pakistani, and American studies scholars as well.Joni Adamson, professor of English and director of the Environmental Humanities Initiative at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University (Joni Adamson 2018-09-14) Shazia Rahman constructively redirects much current scholarship on Pakistani literature and film. Her focus on womens narratives, understood broadly, and the environment is not only timely in terms of scholarly trends but also necessary, given the increasingly stark risks Pakistanis and others around the world face due to environmental neglect and degradation.Cara Cilano, professor of English at Michigan State University (Cara Cilano 2018-09-14) About the Author Shazia Rahman is anassociate professor of English at theUniversity of Dayton.

Author: Vanessa Neumann File Type: epub International smuggling has exploded, deepening and accelerating the collaboration of transnational organized crime and terrorist groups. Attacks like the Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan shootings in Paris, the kidnappings and murders by Boko Haram in Nigeria, and the San Bernardino shooting were partially funded by seemingly harmless illegal goods such as cheap cigarettes, smuggled oil, prostitution, fake Viagra, fake designer bags, and even bootleg DVDs.But how can this be? In Blood Profits, Vanessa Neumann, an expert on dismantling illicit trade, explains how purchasing illegal goods translates to supporting organized crime and terrorists. Neumann shows how the effects of the collapsed Iron Curtain, USSR scientists and intelligence agents left without work, regional trade pacts, the dissipation of the East-versus-West mentality, and new-age technology have all led to an intricate network of illegal trade. She leads the reader through a variety of cases, both by geography and by industry (selecting industries where illicit trade is generally poorly understood), before extracting lessons learned into some policy recommendations that we can all embrace.**ReviewA philosophers gripping exploration of the netherworld of international crime and terrorism their psychology and strategies our vulnerabilities and unwitting complicity. Blood Profits is an enlightening read for policy wonks, crime fighters and development experts. Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale UniversityNeumann takes the reader on a breathtaking tour of some of most corrupt and dangerous places on earth where terrorists and narco-traffickers meet and collude. The amazing thing is that the revenues they feed on come from New York, London and Paris. The disturbing truth that Neumann so cogently analyzes is that the earnings from the sales of fake Vuitton handbags, illicit drugs and cigarettes is what keeps the terrorists and criminals afloat. As Neumann shows, the joke is on us. We ignore what stares us in the face at our peril. The growing overlap between organized crime and terrorism is a toxic brew that can only come back to haunt us in the West. Hold on for a dizzying ride in Blood Profits and expect to be baffled why we allow the collusion between criminals and terrorists to expand. Mat Burrows, Director of the Foresight, Strategy and Risks Initiative at the Atlantic Council and author of The Future, Declassified Megatrends that Will Undo the World Unless We Take ActionAbout the Author DR. VANESSA NEUMANN is President of Asymmetrica, a consultancy on strategies for corporate clients and governments to dismantle illicit trade. Dr. Neumann is the OECDs Advisory Group for the Task Force on Countering Illicit Trade, and holds fellowships at Yale University, Columbia University and the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Her company Asymmetrica is a member of the Global Counter Terrorism Research Network (GCTRN) for the United Nations Security Councils Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), authorized to brief the UN Security Council directly.