Nivi Manchanda

Title: Senior Lecturer in International Politics

School or Department: Politics and International Relations

E-mail: n.manchanda (@) qmul.ac.uk

Sites of Interest: Afghanistan, Pakistan, the United States

Period of Interest: Contemporary

Research Keywords: empire, race, postcolonial theory, queer theory

Relevant Publications:

Imagining Afghanistan: The History and Politics of Imperial Knowledge (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
‘The Graveyard of Empires: Haunting, Amnesia and Afghanistan’s Construction as a Burial Site.’ Middle East Critique 28, no. 3 (2019): 307-320.
‘The Imperial Sociology of the “Tribe” in Afghanistan.’ Millennium 46, no. 2 (2018): 165-189.
‘Queering the Pashtun: Afghan Sexuality in the Homo-Nationalist Imaginary.’ Third World Quarterly 36, no. 1 (2015): 130-146.