Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies Summer 2010 Issue Now Released!

June 13, 2010

I finished the layout for the Summer 2010 issue of Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies tonight. This is our fourth issue, and it is chock-full of articles, reviews, interviews, and poetry. It is an open access journal, so check it out here.

The editor is trying out something new with this issue. All of the individual articles are still freely available and will remain so, because it is an open access journal. Since the beginning, you could also purchase a print version here to help fund the journal’s costs, which include site maintenance, software, and honoraria. Now, if you would like to download a PDF of the full issue to read and print on your own, you may do so for a small donation. This should go live tomorrow on the official site here.

The Summer 2010 issue includes:

Cover art: Amar Raza, Al-Kauthar, (Watercolor 3′x4′), 108th sura of the Qur’an.

Articles

Distinctive Cultural and Geographical Legacy of Bahawalpur Samia Khalid and Aftab Hussain Gilani …………………………………………………………1

Memory and Cultural Identity: Negotiating Modernity in Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers David Waterman ……………………………………………………………………………………….18

Political Manipulation in Human Rights Violations: A Case of Honor Killings in Balochistan, Pakistan Noor Akbar Khalil and Mashhood Ahmed Sheikh …………………………………………36

Reviews

Fawzia Afzal-Khan’s Lahore With Love Swaralipi Nandi ………………………………………………………………………………………..44

Ali Eteraz’s Children of Dust David Waterman ……………………………………………………………………………………….48

Musharraf Ali Farooqi’s Translation of The Adventures of Amir Hamza Colleen Thorndike……………………………………………………………………………………..51

Mashhood Ahmed Sheikh’s Side Effects: Portrait of a Young Artist in Lahore Tatiana Zelenetskaya Young ……………………………………………………………………….54

Notes and Commentaries

From Malakand with Love! Shaikh Muhammad Ali ………………………………………………………………………………57

Labor Unionization in Pakistan – History & Trends Riffat Bawa and Waqar Hashmi…………………………………………………………………..78

Poetry and Prose

Diary of a Wartime Chef Shadab Zeest Hashmi…………………………………………………………………………………83

Ghazal Shadab Zeest Hashmi…………………………………………………………………………………84

Kitchen Cabinet Rizwan Akhtar ………………………………………………………………………………………….85

Punjabi Mehnaz Turner ………………………………………………………………………………………….87

Interviews

An Interview with Professor Pervez Hoodbhoy Mustafa Qadri …………………………………………………………………………………………..88

Notable Pakistan-Related Texts

List of Recent Pakistan-Related Texts David Waterman ……………………………………………………………………………………….94

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CFP, Science Fiction Film and Television Special Issues on Remakes and Biopolitics

November 23, 2009

Sherryl Vint sent out the following CFP for the journal Science Fiction Film and Television. I have a BSG essay that I’m definitely going to send to SFFTV. You should send them something, too!

Science Fiction Film and Television is a biannual, peer-reviewed journal published by Liverpool University Press. Edited by Mark Bould (UWE) and Sherryl Vint (Brock University), with an international board of advisory editors, it encourages dialogue among the scholarly and intellectual communities of film studies, sf studies and television studies.

We invite submissions on all areas of sf film and television. We publish articles, book and DVD reviews and review essays, as well as archive entries on theorists (which introduce the work of key and emergent figures in sf studies, television or film studies) and texts (which describe and analyse little-known or unduly neglected films or television series).

We invite submissions in particular for two special issues:

REMAKES, REVISIONS, REBOOTS: Why is the 21st century fascinated by returning to previous sf franchises? Is this nostalgia? Archive fever? Retrofuturism? What economic and cultural forces inform this recent fascination with return and renewal?

BIOPOLITICS: How do biopolitial theories of theorists such as Foucault, Hardt and Negri, Esposito and Agamben inform readings of sf? What can sf contribute to ongoing discussions of biopolitial governance? What can sf visions of posthumanism tell us about life under biopolitical capitalism?

Submissions should be made via our website at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/lup-sfftv. If you have an idea for a contribution to the archives section, please contact the editors to discuss your proposal.

Advisory Editorial Board: Jonathan Bignell (University of Reading), Catherine Constable (University of Warwick), Susan A. George (University of California, Berkeley), Elyce Rae Helford (Middle Tennessee State University), Matt Hills (Cardiff University), Brooks Landon (University of Iowa), Rob Latham (UC-Riverside), Susan Napier (Tufts University), Sharalyn Orbaugh (University of British Columbia), Wendy Pearson (University of Western Ontario), David Seed (University of Liverpool), Steve Shaviro (Wayne State University), Vivian Sobchack (University of California, Los Angeles) and JP Telotte (Georgia Institute of Technology)

 

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Second Issue of Pakistaniaat, A Journal of Pakistan Studies Now Available

November 11, 2009

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In my off duty hours, I am the layout editor of Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies. After a lot of hard work beating words into shape, I would like to announce that our second issue (Vol. 1, No. 2, 2009) is now available online. Pakistaniaat is an open access journal, which means that all of our peer reviewed content is freely available online in PDF format. You may also purchase a print copy of the journal if you choose to do so. Click here to see this issue’s table of contents.

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Pakistaniaat Print Version Released

May 26, 2009

I just received word from Professor Raja that the print version of Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies that we completed a week ago looks “beautiful.”  Pakistaniaat is an open-access journal, but we made a print edition available for those readers who want the satisfaction of a print edition and its sales support our maintaining the journal online.  Here’s the official announcement:

Dear All:
The print version of Pakistaniaat is now available. You can use this link
to purchase your print copies: http://stores.lulu.com/pakistaniaat.

The print sales support the journal’s online free access mission.
Thank you.

Sincerely,
Masood

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CFP, Pakistaniaat Special Issue on US-Pakistan Relations

April 26, 2009

The journal that I’m the layout editor for, Pakistaniaat:  A Journal of Pakistan Studies, has just released a special issue CFP devoted to US-Pakistan relations.  Read the full CFP below: 

Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies 

Special Issue on US-Pakistan Relations: Past, Present, and Future

We seek submissions for our second issue to be published in December 2009. The issue is themed around the past, present, and future of US-Pakistan relations, but we will also consider works beyond the scope of this particular theme. Please submit your scholarly articles, creative works (fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry), or book reviews that focus on some aspect of Pakistan or Pakistani culture. We read all year.

Pakistaniaat is a peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary electronic journal offering a forum for a serious academic and creative engagement with various aspects of Pakistani culture, literature, and politics. For more details please visit our website.

Masood Raja, Editor

Email: pakistaniaat@gmail.com

Website: http://pakistaniaat.org

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Journal Announcement for Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies

January 21, 2009

Kent State University Professor Masood Raja has established a new peer-reviewed electronic journal called Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies, and he asked me to be its layout editor.  I’m excited to make a contribution to this cutting-edge journal. 

A description of the journal along with a call for papers is listed below:  

Masood Raja (Kent State University) has started a new academic journal entitled Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies. This is a peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary electronic journal offering a forum for a serious academic and creative engagement with various aspects of Pakistani culture, literature, and politics. Though several existing journals do pay a fair degree of attention to the issues of South Asia and Postcoloniality, we feel that under the current climate of high capital and war on terror, Pakistan, often subsumed under the larger registers of South Asia or Postcolonial Studies, needs a particular space of its own in our academic and creative undertakings. Thus, Pakistaniaat aims to provide a public space on the Internet to introduce and discuss hitherto neglected aspects of Pakistani cultural and literary production and to make this knowledge available to a worldwide audience.

Pakistaniaat, thus, aims to provide an inclusive venue to all those interested in issues specifically related to Pakistan, its culture, literature, and its place in the region as well as in the world. We aim to accomplish the important mission of “covering Pakistan” by publishing scholarly articles, creative works, translations, and reviews of books about Pakistan. To visit the journal, go to http://www.pakistaniaat.org.

 The journal is currently seeking submissions for its first issue in June 2009; all those interested in submitting to the journal or working on the staff, should contact Dr. Raja at mraja@kent.edu.

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CFP: Science Fiction Film and Television

September 3, 2008

Mark Bould, co-editor of Science Fiction Film and Television, recently sent out a CFP for the journal.  This is a journal to watch, and I’ve heard rumblings of their doing a BSG special issue in the future.  Read below for the details, and a little further down for the contents of their latest issue.  

Science Fiction Film and Television is a biannual, peer-reviewed journal published by Liverpool University Press and distributed in North America by Chicago University Press. Edited by Mark Bould (UWE) and Sherryl Vint (Brock University), with an international board of advisory editors, it encourages dialogue among the scholarly and intellectual communities of film studies, sf studies and television studies. 

We invite submissions on all areas of sf film and television, from Hollywood productions to Korean or Turkish sf film, from Sci-Fi Channel productions to the origins of sf tv in Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers or The Quatermass Experiment. We encourage papers which consider neglected texts, propose innovative ways of looking at canonical texts, or explore the tensions and synergies that emerge from the interaction of genre and medium. 

We publish articles (6000-8000 words), book and DVD reviews (1000-2000 words) and review essays (up to 5000 words), as well as archive entries (up to 5000 words) on theorists (which introduce the work of key and emergent figures in sf studies, television studies or film studies) and texts (which describe and analyse little-known or unduly neglected films or television series).

Articles should be 6000-8000 words (MLA format) and include a 100-word abstract. Electronic submission in MS Word is preferred. Send submissions to both editors at mark.bould [at] uwe.ac.uk and sherryl.vint [at] gmail.com. If you have an idea for a contribution to the archives section, please contact the editors to discuss your proposal.

Advisory Editorial Board: Jonathan Bignell (University of Reading), Catherine Constable (University of Warwick), Susan A. George (University of California, Berkeley), Elyce Rae Helford (Middle Tennessee State University), Matt Hills (Cardiff University), Brooks Landon (University of Iowa), Rob Latham (University of Iowa), Susan Napier (Tufts University), Sharalyn Orbaugh (University of British Columbia), David Seed (University of Liverpool), Steve Shaviro (Wayne State University), Vivian Sobchack (University of California, Los Angeles) and JP Telotte (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Here’s the contents for the latest issue of Science Fiction Film and Television:

Science Fiction Film and Television 1.1 (Spring 2008)

Articles

Vivian Sobchack, ‘Love Machines: Boy Toys, Toy Boys and the Oxymorons of A.I.: Artificial Intelligence’

Alain Badiou, ‘Dialectics of the Fable’

Matt Hills, ‘The Dispersible Text: Theorising Moments of Doctor Who’

Dave Rolinson and Karen Devlin, ‘“A New Wilderness”: Memory and Language in the Television Science Fiction of Nigel Kneale’

JP Telotte, ‘Serenity, Cinematisation and the Perils of Adaptation’

Mariano Paz, ‘South of the Future: An Overview of Latin American Science Fiction Cinema’

 

Archive

Mary Pharr, ‘The Lab and the Woods: Science and Myth in Les Yeux sans visage’

Sherryl Vint, ‘Embodied Texts, Embodied Subjects: An Overview of N. Katherine Hayles’ 

 

Books reviews

Paul Williams on Wanda Strauven, ed., The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded

Carl Freedman on James Naremore, On Kubrick

David Seed on Matthew Frye Jacobson and Gaspar Gonzalez, What Have They Built You to Do? The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America.

Andrew M Butler on Will Brooker, ed., The Blade Runner Experience

Rob Latham on Serge Grunberg, ed., David Cronenberg: Interviews

 

DVD reviews

Stacey Abbott on Stereo and Crimes of the Future

Bill Beard on Naked Lunch

Adam Roberts on The Man Who Fell to Earth

Neil Easterbrook on No Maps for These Territories

Mark Bould on Transformers

Aylish Wood on Flatland, the Film

William Brown on Immortal (ad vitam)

Seth Giddings on Fantastic Planet  

Pam Cook on District 13

Jarret Burke on 4

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