Dr Nichola Khan
Senior Lecturer
contact:
Applied Social Science
Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9PH
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643482
Email: N.Khan@brighton.ac.uk
Nichola Khan is a senior lecturer in psychology. She holds a BA in Developmental Psychology, an MPhil in Cross-Cultural Psychology, and obtained a DPhil in Social Anthropology (2008) from the University of Sussex.
She is the author of Mohajir Militancy in Pakistan (2010, Routledge, reprinted in paperback 2012) which develops a psychological-cum-anthropological exploration of political violence amongst Karachi's 'Mohajirs' – the Indian Muslim migrants to Pakistan following partition in 1947. Recently she has been developing research interests in transnational Afghan migration at various intersections of affect, identity and subject formation; everyday mobilities; remittance economies, labour, and mental and emotional health.
She has held teaching posts at the University of Sussex and South Bank University and worked as a consultant on development projects on HIV transmission, cash transfers and social protection. She has wide experience teaching and researching using interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches, multi-sited and mobile ethnography, and biographic methods. She co-ordinates the core developmental psychology module, and teaches critical and community approaches across the psychology programme. She is interested in supervising doctoral students working on anthropology of subjectivity and affect in transnational migration; mental health, migration and technologies of citizenship; Pakistan, Afghanistan and Afghan diaspora.
Publications
Articles and monographs
Khan, N. (in preparation) A Moving Heart: Querying a singular problem of 'immobility' in Afghan migration to the UK.
Khan, N. (in preparation) 'Afghan transnational migration and the politics of movement in the Pakistani Frontier: picnics and the taste of freedom.'
Khan, N. (2013, in press). 'From refugees to the world stage: sport, civilisation and modernity in Out of the Ashes and the UK Afghan diaspora.' South Asian Popular Culture. Special issue on sport and diaspora.
Khan, N. (reprinted 2012). Mohajir Militancy in Pakistan: Violence and Transformation in the Karachi Conflict. Oxon: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
Reviewed by Laurent Gayer, Dec. 2010
www.laviedesidees.fr/Profession-tueur.html
Reviewed by Kausar Khan (Women's Action Forum, Karachi), (2012) Friday Times, Dec. 30- Jan. 05, 2012 - Vol. XXIII, No. 46, p.27.
www.thefridaytimes.com/beta2/tft/article.php?issue=20111230&page=27
Republished in paperback, 16 April 2012.
Review by Matthew Nelson (2012, March) Pacific Affairs. www.pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/recent-issues/book-reviews-2/book-reviews-vol-85-no-1/
Review in Newsline (Pakistan) by Kausar Khan
www.newslinemagazine.com/author/kausar-s-k/
Khan, N. (2012) Between Spectacle and Banality: Trajectories into Islamic Radicalism in a Karachi Neighbourhood. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 36, 3:568-584.
Khan, N. (2011). Are Europe's Migrants not a Potential Resource? Response to Bassam Tibi. Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 11(2):324-328. Review Essay.
Khan, N. (2010). Violence, Anti-/Convention and Desires for Transformation amongst Pakistan's Mohajirs in Karachi. Cultural Dynamics, 22(3):225-246
Khan, N. (2010). Time and Fantasy in Narratives of Jihad: The Case of the Islami Jamiat-i-Tuleba in Karachi. Special Issue on Emotions. Human Affairs, vol. 20, no.3.
Edström, J. and Khan, N. (2009). Perspectives on intergenerational vulnerability for adolescents affected by HIV: an argument for voice and visibility. IDS Bulletin, 40:1, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
Khan, N. (2008). Violence and Love: the Mobilisation of Karachi's Mohajir Youth. International Institute for Asian Studies Newsletter, No. 49, November: Amsterdam
Khan, N. (2007). Mobilisation and Political Violence in the Mohajir Community of Karachi. Special Article. Vol 4, No. 25: Economic and Political Weekly: Delhi, June 23
Khan, N. and Smith, P. B. (2003) Profiling the Politically Violent in Pakistan: Self-construals and Values. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 9 (3). 277-295
Triandis, H. C. and Khan, N. (2003) Some Hypotheses on the Psychology of Terrorism. Cross-Cultural Psychology Bulletin, Vol 36 (5). 33-40
Reports
Edström, J. and Khan, N. (2009). Protection and Care for Children Faced with HIV and AIDS in East Asia and the Pacific: Framing the Issues, Responses and Priorities in the Region. Report, Bangkok: UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office (EAPRO).
Khan, N. (2008). Review of Windfall Gains in a Development Context: Drawing lessons from Expenditure and Policy in the OECD for the South. Report for the Overseas Development Insitute (ODI) Research Programme on CashTransfers and Their Role in Social Protection, June.
Recent conference papers
2010 - 'Naturalising Politics; Politicising Nature: Ethnicity, Violence and the Indus in Sindh'. Keynote Address, 22nd Annual Conference of World Sindhi Congress, London, Oct.
2010 - Thinking Time and Space Psychosocially: Narratives of Islamic Radicalism in a Karachi Neighbourhood. Paper presented at Behavioural and Cultural Foundations and Consequences of Violence, International Research Workshop of the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS, Lisbon) and the Households in Conflict Network (HiCN), ICS, Lisbon, Portugal, 7-8 June
2010 - A Psychosocial Conceptualisation of Islamic Radicalism in a Karachi Neighbourhood: Time, Space and Narrative. Paper presented at International Symposium of the Subjectivities, Violence and Rights (SuViR) research group, School of Applied Social Sciences (SASS), University of Brighton, 25 June
2010 - A Positive Politics of Fear: Terror and Transformation in Pakistan's Muttahida Qaumi Movement. Paper presented at Politics of Fear; Fear of Politics, Fifth Annual International, Interdisciplinary Conference, Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE), University of Brighton, 15-17 September
2009 - On the exigencies of violence and love: militancy, masculinity and memory in post-conflict Karachi. Conflict, Crime and Violence Seminar Series. Institute of Development Studies, October
2009 - Practices and Desires of Youthful Transition and Transformation amongst Pakistan's Mohajirs in Karachi. South Asia Anthropology Research Seminar. University of Sussex, September
2009 - A Violent Becoming: trajectories into ethnic and religious militancy in a Karachi neighbourhood. Symposium on Subjectivities, Violence and Rights, University of Brighton, September
2009 - The problem of violent security: male youth, anti-/convention and desires for transformation amongst ethnic and religious militants in Pakistan. ESRC Research Seminar Series: Human Security- Concepts and Applications. Institute of Development Studies, May
2007 - Political Violence and Youth Mobilisation in the Karachi Conflict. (c.1984- 2002). Paper presented on the Panel on Ethnographies of Terror and Migration. Conference on Terror and Migration. Southampton University, November
2005 - Rethinking Ethnicity, Islam and the State in the Karachi Conflict. Seminar paper presented at the Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, London, July
2005 - The Post-Partition History of the Mohajirs in Sindh. Seminar paper presented to the Centre for Studies on South Asia, University of Sussex, June
2002 - Loss, Anger and Resistance in Pakistan: Biography and Political Mobilisation in Karachi's Muttahida Qaumi Movement. Paper presented at Conference of Life History Research, University of Sussex, UK, June
2003 - Migration and the Genesis of Violence in Karachi's Muttahida Qaumi Movement. Seminar paper to the Anthropology Department, Postgraduate Workshop, University of Sussex, June
Additional memberships
Fellow. Royal Anthropological Institute
Fellow. Royal Geographic Society (no: 879682)
2008 Visiting Fellow. Centre for Peace and Civil Society, Islamabad, Pakistan
2006 Visiting Fellow. Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad, Pakistan
2003-Sussex Centre for Justice, Violence, Rights and Conciliation
2000 Member. British Psychological Society
