Dr Nichola Khan CPsychol

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 Chartered Psychologist and 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 within areas relating to violence and subjectivity, psychological anthropology, migration, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Afghan diasporas.

Publications

Articles and monographs

Khan, N. (in press) A Moving Heart: Querying a singular problem of 'immobility' in Afghan migration to the UK. Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness, 32(6).

Khan, N. (in preparation). The taste of freedom: commensality, power and return amongst Afghan transnational migrants in the UK and Pakistan.

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. (2013). 'Remote control' politics of Karachi. The Friday Times, June 07-13, Vol. XXV, No. 17.
www.thefridaytimes.com/beta3/tft/article.php?issue=20130607&page=8

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

2012 - A Moving Heart: Querying a singular problem of 'immobility' in Afghan migration to the UK. 112th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association. San Francisco, November

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

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Additional memberships

Chartered Psychologist – British Psychological Society

Professional member – American Anthropological Association; Society for Psychological Anthropology

Fellow. Royal Anthropological Institute

Fellow. Royal Geographic Society (no: 879682)