Given BB’s death anniversary on Dec 27, and all kinds of recent spotlight on Maryam Nawaz, I’ve been thinking about the gendered nature of dynastic politics in PK, and the research that has helped me understand it. 🧵/1 I explored this a bit in my chapter on women’s exclusion from electoral politics in a volume on Pakistan’s Political Parties edited by @NiloSiddiqui @sahar_shafqat & Mariam Mufti press.georgetown.edu/book/georgetow…

The book is out now in PK via @foliobooks: foliobooks.pk/book-store/fol… /2

yeah the headline is bad but this definition of feminism a few paras in might be worse:

“Feminism meant cheering on women trying to gain status in this broken system.” 😑

nytimes.com/2020/12/23/opi… There is a certain audacity in deeming this form of feminism “new”...

this is going to be a long thread about why i, a political scientist, am going to vote in the Pakistani General Elections on 25 July (and also other things) 1/N for the past months I have felt incredibly conflicted about the repressive environment in Pakistan in the lead up to elections. this past week with so many lives lost, everything has felt utterly meaningless 2/N