{"title":"Nationalism and production of precarious life: an anarchist critique of Island of a Thousand Mirrors","authors":"Shaista Malik, N. Ahmad","doi":"10.47264/idea.jhsms/3.1.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47264/idea.jhsms/3.1.32","url":null,"abstract":"Following Anarchist theorist Rudolf Rocker, the current paper strives to see the role of state racism in perpetrating violence as depicted in Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaveera. The paper argues that state racism by majoritarian Sinhala elite defines a reductive notion of nationalism which inseminates genocidal violence against the minority community. This nationalism, providing normative definition of human dictates which lives are considered worthy and must be protected by bringing all apparatuses of state in action and which lives must be subjected to extinction by using the monopoly of state violence. The paper further intends to seek the nexus between nationalism and the patterns that it devises to subject ethnic minorities’ lives to precariousness. It further seeks to explore that the retributory forces replicate instead of eradicating violence. The paper further argues that nationalism not only defines worthy lives, it, also, provides a cultural frame for defining grievable death thus subjecting minorities to the violence of derealisation.","PeriodicalId":260646,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanities, Social and Management Sciences (JHSMS)","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121546630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Farrukh Faheem, S. Hussain, Muhammad Tariq Rasheed Qmar
{"title":"The US withdrawal from Afghanistan and its impacts on the Pak-Afghan relationship","authors":"Farrukh Faheem, S. Hussain, Muhammad Tariq Rasheed Qmar","doi":"10.47264/idea.jhsms/3.1.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47264/idea.jhsms/3.1.37","url":null,"abstract":"How to fix Afghanistan's challenges is one of the most talked-about issues of the 21st century. With its incredible nature and immense scale of being a safe haven for terrorists, the Afghanistan conundrum warrants all the thought it gets. The US hasty attack and abrupt withdrawal from Afghanistan affected the neighbouring states somehow and others. Pakistan is the most affected among these countries because of its chaotic past relationship. In the latest situation since the US retreat from Afghanistan, bordering countries have been trying to pull Afghanistan out of its misery. To achieve this goal, Pakistan had been trying to peacefully give passage to the US to leave and help the Taliban to assume control of Kabul. This is an uphill task because other regional and global powers have agendas to reshape Afghanistan’s future. On the other hand, for Afghanistan, common players, for instance, Pakistan, India, China, and Russia, have consistently been reconsidering their ways of meeting their national points of interest or terminations. This study investigates the Afghan harmony procedure and regional and global players waiting for the US withdrawal procedure and how it would affect Pakistan's future relationship with Afghanistan.","PeriodicalId":260646,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanities, Social and Management Sciences (JHSMS)","volume":"261 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134287528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Linguistic representation of gender from essentialist to poststructuralist perspective in the Cholistan trilogy: a feminist critical discourse analysis","authors":"A. Jan, Mujib Rahman","doi":"10.47264/idea.jhsms/3.1.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47264/idea.jhsms/3.1.33","url":null,"abstract":"The identities of gender normative get deconstructed and reconstructed with alternate possibilities of self-constitution. This phenomenon is rendered more complex with its intersection with other factors of identities like race/ethnicity, social class, geography etc. The linguistic representation of these complex variegated aspects of gender from its essentialist to poststructuralist perspectives was analysed in Staples’s Cholistan trilogy which consists of three novels Shabanu (1989), Haveli (1993) and The House of Djinn (2008). An eclectic approach of a theoretical framework consisting of Lazar’s (2005; 2007; 2014) Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis (FCDA), Butler’s (1990) gender performativity and Foucault’s (1980) subjectivity theory was adopted. Halliday’s (1985) approach to transitivity analysis was used for analysing the transitivity processes in the performances of gendered subjects described in the verbal phrases of the clauses in the text. Various kinds of constructions of gender identities were revealed in the study like biological determination of gender, the social construction of gender, the configuration of gender, gender stereotypes, deconstruction of gender normativity and reconstruction of gender identities with possible alternate performances. The study recommends the textual representation of gender in a way that help deconstructs gender normative and reconstruct gender identity with alternate possibilities.","PeriodicalId":260646,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanities, Social and Management Sciences (JHSMS)","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129725967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parallel structural patterns in internal linguistic systems of English: an integrated approach","authors":"M. Ishtiaq, Zahid Kamal, Sahibzada Wasim Iqbal","doi":"10.47264/idea.jhsms/3.1.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47264/idea.jhsms/3.1.31","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reviews the major parallel structural patterns common across all internal linguistic systems despite the fact that important differences exist between the different language systems besides similarities. However, the prevailing pedagogic approaches to treating these internal linguistic systems as mutually exclusive rather than complementary have highlighted the differences by bringing them to the fore and at the same time have obscured and ignored the essential similarities shared by them all. Drawing on Radford’s (2004) reflection that binarity is equally valid and applicable to the constituent structures of phonological and morphological systems and operations along with that of syntax, the present study extends certain other operations primarily discussed and analysed in terms of syntactic constituents to have been equal application and validity in other linguistic systems i.e., phonology, morphology, and lexicology. This study has concentrated on aspects of general structural patterns in three significant patterns such as ‘essential/non-essential dichotomy’, ‘ordering of elements in constituents at all levels, ‘subcategorization’ restrictions on elements of constituents at all levels. It has been concluded that all the features equally apply to all three internal linguistic systems.","PeriodicalId":260646,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanities, Social and Management Sciences (JHSMS)","volume":"265 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121336811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Socio-economic impacts of internal displacement on the internally displaced persons of North Waziristan: 2014-2017","authors":"Irshad Ullah, Alamgir Khan, Asif Ullah","doi":"10.47264/idea.jhsms/3.1.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47264/idea.jhsms/3.1.38","url":null,"abstract":"After 9/11 incident, when the NATO forces attacked Afghanistan, most of militants migrated to FATA, Pakistan for the sake of refuge, which resulted in the growth of militancy and extremism in Pakistan. To counter terrorism and to stop the advancement of this evil, Pakistani government launched operation Zarb-e-Azb as a last vengeance in North Waziristan Agency with the aim to evacuate common people and then to extinguish militants. Consequently, about 1 million IDP’s displaced to the adjacent areas i.e., Bannu, Lakki Marwat, Karak etc. in the mid of June, 2014. Usually, displacement brought a number of socio-economic problems in the fate of IDP’s. That is why this research article focuses on the socio-economic problems of the North Waziristan Agency IDP’s hosted in Lakki Marwat from 2014-2017. This research is descriptive-exploratory nature based on mixed study approach; data used in the research collected from both primary & secondary sources. IDPs argues that they left their homes with empty hands and migrated to adjacent arears in the miserable situation. Government and Non-governmental organizations tried their level best to facilitate IDPs with honour and dignity. But the IDPs showed dissatisfaction because of unmatchable ratio between problems and facilitation.","PeriodicalId":260646,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanities, Social and Management Sciences (JHSMS)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115011120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Poverty and deforestation nexus: An economic analysis of cause and effect relationship in Malakand Division, Pakistan","authors":"S. Ullah, M. Israr, Sanam Wagma Khattak","doi":"10.47264/idea.jhsms/3.1.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47264/idea.jhsms/3.1.28","url":null,"abstract":"Rural poverty is perhaps the main cause of deforestation and vice versa. This two-way relationship appears to exist in a slightly greater form in rural communities worldwide. To analyse the same relationship empirically, a study was conducted in Malakand Division, of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The data was collected from one hundred and eighty respondents through a self-administered questionnaire. Data was analysed using a non-recursive two-stage linear regression model and descriptive statistics. The findings revealed a two-way relationship between poverty and deforestation in the area under study. It was established that rural communities have low-income levels and rely heavily on natural resources, particularly the forest sector, for their fundamental survival and subsistence needs. The survey also shows that environmental deterioration in the form of deforestation is severe in the Malakand Division and that the majority of people are unaware of the necessity of environmental conservation. It is recommended that the government through strict regulations and by taking practical steps towards poverty reduction, may stop deforestation in the area under study.","PeriodicalId":260646,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanities, Social and Management Sciences (JHSMS)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126701503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women’s socio-economic empowerment, Sustainable Development Goal 5, and Pakistan’s commitment: an assessment","authors":"Sardar M. A. W. K. Arif, Bushra Bannian","doi":"10.47264/idea.jhsms/3.1.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47264/idea.jhsms/3.1.27","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to analyse the condition of women's socio-economic empowerment in Pakistan and its position regarding Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5, which relates to “gender equality and women empowerment”. The paper highlights the socio-economic dilemmas of Pakistani women and discusses the impediments they face in the exercise of their fundamental rights. The article establishes that while Pakistan is making constant efforts to draft pro-women laws, the country continues to face critical challenges regarding its effective implementation. The question is, what are the programmes, strategies, schemes and plans that government, its institutions, civil societies and Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) can introduce and incorporate to improve women's circumstances and safeguard their interests? This paper identifies the discrimination against women as the root cause behind their socio-economic stagnation, it thus concludes that national development is not possible until gender parity and empowerment of women is implemented in its true letter and spirit as guaranteed in “Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan” and other laws of land respectively.","PeriodicalId":260646,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanities, Social and Management Sciences (JHSMS)","volume":"288 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113958894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The stereotypical racial discursive representation of blacks: a critical discourse analysis of The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas","authors":"Osama Amjid, Farman Ali, N. Muhammad","doi":"10.47264/idea.jhsms/3.1.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47264/idea.jhsms/3.1.29","url":null,"abstract":"This research attempts to analyse discursive and ideological strategies used by the narrator to highlight the representation of black in the novel The Hate U Give. The narrator describes, how have blacks been suppressed and prey of white autocracy. The subsequent stereotyped racial discrimination resulted in a great imbalance in the social order because only blacks were the recipient of most of the consequences and disparities. It caused chaos in shape of protests and brutal killing of blacks at the hands of white cops. The whites constructed ideology propagate blacks as savages and radicals. The data has been scrutinized for white’s ideological unconscious fabricated attitudes towards blacks through Norman Faircloug’s Critical Discourse Analysis. The researcher has adopted Critical Race Theory of Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic (2001) and also Martinez (2014) as a theoretical and analytical framework which strengthen the analysis of negative representation of blacks in different discourses. The research has pointed discursive represented tools and whites’ idea about the differences among black and white race. It gives us how law, media reporters, police and other institutes work against black race and how they are exploited and discriminated in every walk of life just because of their black colour.","PeriodicalId":260646,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanities, Social and Management Sciences (JHSMS)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127486396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teachers’ awareness and practices on school ergonomics in Karachi, Pakistan","authors":"Rukshanda Jabeen, N. Hussain","doi":"10.47264/idea.jhsms/3.1.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47264/idea.jhsms/3.1.26","url":null,"abstract":"Students spend most of the quality hours of the entire day in a school environment. Therefore, their safety and security are priorities of school administration and teachers to keep them secure from injuries and other health issues. Students mostly rely on teachers for their daily academic activities within a classroom environment. Therefore, it is essential to find out teachers’ perceptions and awareness about ergonomics risk factors and their practices to reduce these factors for the safety of the children within the classroom environment. A qualitative case study was conducted in a private school of Pakistan, to investigate teachers’ perceptions about school ergonomics and their practices which directly or indirectly influence school ergonomics. Five school teachers of primary class 3 were interviewed through a self-developed semi-structured interview protocol. The result indicated that ergonomics is highly valued in school education for students’ safety and health. Teachers introduce appropriate physical exercise in the classroom to keep children healthy and active during school hours and provide postural awareness for developing proper body posture. Counselling parents on ergonomics risk factors was suggested, along with ergonomically designed furniture in the classroom and the use of light material backpacks are also recommended.","PeriodicalId":260646,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanities, Social and Management Sciences (JHSMS)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131449810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BRICS space diplomacy and response of non-Western countries: the inscription of Neo-Functionalism","authors":"B. Sultan, Amna Mahmood","doi":"10.47264/idea.jhsms/3.1.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47264/idea.jhsms/3.1.25","url":null,"abstract":"Outer space perseveres as a domain of contestation. In fact, the era of the early 2000s was also remarked to be embroiled in a ‘second space race’. In this regard, in November 2019, NATO also declared outer space as its operational domain. In contrast, BRICS formally committed in 2021 to the prevention of an arms race in outer space. Russia and China agreed to cooperate on a permanent manned lunar base and are investing heavily in their space programs. This is ringing bells in Western-led established order. Once the International Space Station (ISS) is decommissioned in 2022, China’s space station, if constructed in 2025, will be the only functioning global space station for which Beijing is already seeking cooperation from partners. Interestingly, NASA’s legislation prevents it from collaborating with the Chinese National Space Agency. This article endeavours to understand the scenario with a two-fold focus: will the emerging countries like BRICS follow the footsteps of the West in militarizing outer space? how countries other than China use this opportunity to attain a desirable position in the international order. The study provides an insight into how non-Western countries have secured a place in attaining a considerable position in outer space.","PeriodicalId":260646,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanities, Social and Management Sciences (JHSMS)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134448664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}