Aalene Mahum Aneeq
Email: a.aneeq@unsw.edu.au
Supervisors: Prof. Taylor C. Sherman and Assoc/Prof. Monika Barthwal-Datta
Aalene is a PhD researcher working on the history of franchise, elections, and democracy in Pakistan between 1947 and 1971. Broadly, her research examines the bureaucratic processes of democratisation, state-making, and citizen-making in South Asia.
Previously, she completed an MSt. in Modern South Asian Studies as an Ertegun Graduate Scholar at the University of Oxford, where her research focused on Partition refugee resettlement in West Punjab and its impact on ideas of citizenship in Pakistan. She has also worked on women leaders’ histories in early Pakistani politics.
Aalene has taught undergraduate courses on Pakistani history and on gender, nation and politics in colonial South Asia at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and at the Information Technology University (ITU) in Pakistan between 2018 and 2021. She has also served as a tutor and marker at UNSW. She strongly believes in strengthening the community of South Asian Studies scholars in Sydney and she contributes to collaboration and academic exchange across institutions.
- Research area
- Research outputs
- South Asian Studies
- Pakistani History
- Democracy, Governance, Elections
- Decolonisation
- Citizenship
Publications
- “Gender, Dissent and the Afterlives of the Pakistan Movement: Fatima Jinnah and the 1965 Elections”, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, (2024). https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2024.2344996
- “To The Editor: Partition Refugee Relief and the Making of the ‘Pakistani Muslim Citizen’ in Punjab”, Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives, (2023). https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003131458-25/editor-aalene-mahum-aneeq
Selected Conference Presentations:
- "Re-imagining and Gendering Democracy: The Life and Works of Jahanara Shahnawaz in Postcolonial Pakistan.” Paper presentation at the Asian Studies Association of Australia Conference 2024, Perth, Australia. July 2024.
- “Rewriting Pakistani Democracy: The Story of Universal Adult Franchise in the 1960s.” Paper presentation at the New Zealand Asia Conference 2023, Christchurch, New Zealand. Nov 2023.
- “From Refugees to Voters: The 1951 Provincial Elections in Pakistan’s Punjab”. ADA HDR Conference, UNSW. July 2023.
- “Blogging, Activism, and the Online Public Sphere: The Case of Female Pakistani Influencers”. Paper presentation at the symposium Transnational resistance to Ethnoreligious Nationalisms in South Asia, University of Newcastle, July 2022.
- “To the Editor: Partition Refugee Relief and the Making of the ‘Pakistani Muslim Citizen’ in Punjab” (Paper presentation at the American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Taiwan June 2022).
- “Decolonisation and Democratisation: Fatima Jinnah in Postcolonial Pakistani Politics” (Invited to chair a session with Dr. Reza Pirbhai, Ideas Conclave, University of Central Punjab, Pakistan December 2020).
- “The Aftermath of Independence: Gendering Pakistani History through the Lens of Fatima Jinnah.” Paper presented at the Graduate Workshop: New Directions in Pakistan Studies, University of Oxford, April 2018.