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Books by Dr. Rubina Saigol
Rubina Saigol, 'The Making of the Pakistani Citizen: Civic Education and State Nationalism in Pakistan', edited by Edward Vickers & Krishna Kumar, (Routledge Studies in Education and Society in Asia), New York: Routledge, , 2014
Rubina Saigol, 'Glories of the Past Aspirations for the Future: Time as a Dimension of National Education in Pakistan' in Education and Social Change in Krishna Kumar and Joachim Oesterheld, South Asia, Orient Longman, , 2007
Rubina Saigol, 'Deconstructing Terrorism: Discourse and Death in Pakistan', in Terror, Terrorism, States and Societies A Historical and Philosophical Perspective, Samir Kumar Das & Rada Ivekovic Ed, Women Unlimited, 2010
Rubina Saigol, 'Tale of Two Communities, Pakistani Textbook Representation of 1857' in 'Shaping a Nation', Lyon & Edgar ed, 2010
Hussain, Mumtaz and Saigol, 'Engendering the Nation' Vol 1 Part 3 of 3, Simorgh, 1997
Hussain, Mumtaz and Saigol, 'Engendering the Nation Vol 1' Part 2, Simorgh, 1997
Rubina Saigol, 'Engendering the Nation', Hussain, Mumtaz and Saigol, Vol 1 Part 1, Simorgh Publication, 1997
Hussain, Mumtaz, Saigol, 'Engendering the Nation State Vol 2:2', Simorgh, 1997
Hussain, Mumtaz, Saigol, 'Engendering the Nation State Vol 2:1', Simorgh, 1997
Rubina Saigol, 'Women's Empowerment in Pakistan: A Scoping Study', USAID, 2011
Women's empowerment is a complex, multi-dimensional, fluid and emerging concept within feminism a... more Women's empowerment is a complex, multi-dimensional, fluid and emerging concept within feminism and development literature. It has economic, political, social, cultural, religious, personal, psychological and emotional elements. Empowerment appears to be context-specific and has multiple determinants. Women are capable of empowering themselves while external actors and agencies can create supportive environments.
The Pakistan Project: Feminist Perspectives on Nation and Identity. New Delhi, Women Unlimited. , 2013
The Pakistan Project: Feminist Perspectives on Nation and Identity. New Delhi, Women Unlimited. , 2013
The Pakistan Project: Feminist Perspectives on Nation and Identity. New Delhi, Women Unlimited. , 2013
The Pakistan Project: Feminist Perspectives on Nation and Identity. New Delhi, Women Unlimited. , 2013
The Pakistan Project: Feminist Perspectives on Nation and Identity. New Delhi, Women Unlimited. , 2013
Rubina Saigol, 'Knowledge and Identity: Articulation of Gender in Educational Discourse in Pakistan', ASR, , 1995
This book looks at articulation of gender in educational discourse in Pakistan.
Rubina Saigol, 'Knowledge and Identity: Articulation of Gender in Educational Discourse in Pakistan', ASR, , 1995
This book looks at articulation of gender in educational discourse in Pakistan.
Rubina Saigol, 'Knowledge and Identity: Articulation of Gender in Educational Discourse in Pakistan', ASR, 1995
This book looks at articulation of gender in educational discourse in Pakistan.
Rubina Saigol, 'Symbolic Violence: Curriculum, Pedagogy and Society', Society for Advancement of Education , 2000
This book critically examines the complex relationships between social and political power on one... more This book critically examines the complex relationships between social and political power on one hand and the symbolic power of knowledge systems on the other.
Rubina Saigol, 'The Making of the Pakistani Citizen: Civic Education and State Nationalism in Pakistan', edited by Edward Vickers & Krishna Kumar, (Routledge Studies in Education and Society in Asia), New York: Routledge, , 2014
Rubina Saigol, 'Glories of the Past Aspirations for the Future: Time as a Dimension of National Education in Pakistan' in Education and Social Change in Krishna Kumar and Joachim Oesterheld, South Asia, Orient Longman, , 2007
Rubina Saigol, 'Deconstructing Terrorism: Discourse and Death in Pakistan', in Terror, Terrorism, States and Societies A Historical and Philosophical Perspective, Samir Kumar Das & Rada Ivekovic Ed, Women Unlimited, 2010
Rubina Saigol, 'Tale of Two Communities, Pakistani Textbook Representation of 1857' in 'Shaping a Nation', Lyon & Edgar ed, 2010
Hussain, Mumtaz and Saigol, 'Engendering the Nation' Vol 1 Part 3 of 3, Simorgh, 1997
Hussain, Mumtaz and Saigol, 'Engendering the Nation Vol 1' Part 2, Simorgh, 1997
Rubina Saigol, 'Engendering the Nation', Hussain, Mumtaz and Saigol, Vol 1 Part 1, Simorgh Publication, 1997
Hussain, Mumtaz, Saigol, 'Engendering the Nation State Vol 2:2', Simorgh, 1997
Hussain, Mumtaz, Saigol, 'Engendering the Nation State Vol 2:1', Simorgh, 1997
Rubina Saigol, 'Women's Empowerment in Pakistan: A Scoping Study', USAID, 2011
Women's empowerment is a complex, multi-dimensional, fluid and emerging concept within feminism a... more Women's empowerment is a complex, multi-dimensional, fluid and emerging concept within feminism and development literature. It has economic, political, social, cultural, religious, personal, psychological and emotional elements. Empowerment appears to be context-specific and has multiple determinants. Women are capable of empowering themselves while external actors and agencies can create supportive environments.
The Pakistan Project: Feminist Perspectives on Nation and Identity. New Delhi, Women Unlimited. , 2013
The Pakistan Project: Feminist Perspectives on Nation and Identity. New Delhi, Women Unlimited. , 2013
The Pakistan Project: Feminist Perspectives on Nation and Identity. New Delhi, Women Unlimited. , 2013
The Pakistan Project: Feminist Perspectives on Nation and Identity. New Delhi, Women Unlimited. , 2013
The Pakistan Project: Feminist Perspectives on Nation and Identity. New Delhi, Women Unlimited. , 2013
Rubina Saigol, 'Knowledge and Identity: Articulation of Gender in Educational Discourse in Pakistan', ASR, , 1995
This book looks at articulation of gender in educational discourse in Pakistan.
Rubina Saigol, 'Knowledge and Identity: Articulation of Gender in Educational Discourse in Pakistan', ASR, , 1995
This book looks at articulation of gender in educational discourse in Pakistan.
Rubina Saigol, 'Knowledge and Identity: Articulation of Gender in Educational Discourse in Pakistan', ASR, 1995
This book looks at articulation of gender in educational discourse in Pakistan.
Rubina Saigol, 'Symbolic Violence: Curriculum, Pedagogy and Society', Society for Advancement of Education , 2000
This book critically examines the complex relationships between social and political power on one... more This book critically examines the complex relationships between social and political power on one hand and the symbolic power of knowledge systems on the other.
Rubina Saigol, 'Collusion, Confrontation, Capitulation The state, fundamentalisms and the Women’s Movement ' Conference on Civil Society Movements, ISSI-Hans Seidel, Islamabad, , 2014
The social order globally, regionally and nationally is dynamic as it constantly undergoes politi... more The social order globally, regionally and nationally is dynamic as it constantly undergoes political, economic and social transformations. Being a part of the historical process, the social order is not static but in a perpetual state of flux as a result of the conflict between competing social classes, changing gender relations, and ethnic and religious groups whose concerns become articulated as movements. Movements, therefore, are also not frozen in time but change as objective realities are transformed and demand new responses. In a dialectical relationship, the social order transforms movements, and movements in turn reconfigure the social order.
Rubina Saigol, '‘Ter-reign of Terror', In Terror, Counter-Terror. Joseph, Ammu and Kalpana Sharma (eds). New Delhi: Kali Press. , 2003
It has become customary to talk as if history began on September 11, 2001. Everything that is ha... more It has become customary to talk as if history began on September 11, 2001. Everything that is happening to the world today began when those planes crashed dramatically into the symbols of global capitalism and military might. The tendency to view September 11 as a major discontinuity in world affairs, obscures the fact that September 11 and the events that followed, in fact represent a continuity and, perhaps, even an intensification of global agendas that preceded September 11, 2001 by decades and even centuries. Colonialism, imperialism, globalization and militarization were not invented post September 11. September 11 became a catalyst for global agendas that were festering long before that date. It brought out into the open and laid bare the fangs of military might, state terror and economic domination that are implied in producing the events of September 11, 2001. I would go so far as to argue that in fact nothing has changed, at least not in any substantial way, and that what happened on September 11 and after, only accelerated the pace of what was already under way prior to that fateful date.
‘Ter-reign of Terror: September 11 and its Aftermath', In Radhika Coomaraswamy & Fonseka, Dilrukshi. Peace Work: Women, Armed Conflict and Negotiation. International Centre for Ethnic Studies. New Delhi: Women Unlimited. 2004.
‘Ter-reign of Terror', In Terror, Counter-Terror. Joseph, Ammu and Kalpana Sharma (eds). New Delhi: Kali Press. 2003.
Rubina Saigol, '‘The Making of the Pakistani Citizen: civic education and state nationalism in Pakistan', edited by Edward Vickers & Krishna Kumar, (Routledge Studies in Education and Society in Asia), New York: Routledge, , 2014
The concept of the citizen is fraught with tensions and contradictions that lie at the heart of m... more The concept of the citizen is fraught with tensions and contradictions that lie at the heart of modern states and nations that seek to mould diverse populations into the political identity of citizenship.
Rubina Saigol, ‘Shariat Bill and its Impact on Women and Education'. In Against All Odds. Menon, Ritu, Kamla Bhasin and Nighat Said Khan (eds). Kali Press: New Delhi, 1996
Rubina Saigol, 'The Partitions of Self: Mohajir Women’s Sense of Identity and Nationhood' SDPI on a study of ‘Women in Conflict Situations', 1999
This paper explores how women relate to the forging of new identities in a complex negotiation, w... more This paper explores how women relate to the forging of new identities in a complex negotiation, which involves accommodation, assimilation, rejection, interrogation, resistance and capitulation to the dominant constructions of identity. Women may go through all of these processes or a few of them, depending on a number of factors. They may identify with a particular identity formation, or contest and reject it, as the identity being formed goes through various stages of articulation and elaboration. The specific construct to be discussed here is Mohajir identity and sense of nationhood in Karachi, Pakistan. The purpose is to try to understand some of the ways in which ethnic and ethno-national identities come to be created, and the contradictions that may arise from other belongings, primarily those of class, religion and gender.
Rubina Saigol, 'Gendered Conflicts: A Feminist Perspective on Knowledge of Conflict', Sangat Conference on Women, Development and Peace., Dhaka, Bangalesh, 2003
Feminist scholarship has enriched the area of conflict studies by inserting gender perspectives i... more Feminist scholarship has enriched the area of conflict studies by inserting gender perspectives into the study of national, ethnic, sectarian, class, race and communal strife. In the past, the study of external and internal conflict was dominated purely by analyses focused on military strategy, the politics and economics of war, as well as struggles within the borders of a state. Such geo-strategic and geo-political studies tended to center on territory acquisition, war, political personalities, power struggles between different rulers, and the causes and consequences of international or intra-national conflict. Traditional scholarship on political, economic and social conflict typically tended to ignore the role of, as well as the impact upon, ordinary people and civilian populations.
Rubina Saigol, 'Rule of Law or Law of the Ruler Black Coats Struggle for an Independent Judiciary', JNU, New Delhi, 2009
After presenting an account of the events that sparked off the movement, I will try to offer some... more After presenting an account of the events that sparked off the movement, I will try to offer some tentative insights into the dynamics of the struggle in the context of Pakistan’s historical political development. These insights are by no means immutable truths; rather they are my perceptions and understandings of the movement and are meant to raise certain issues for debate. This narrative is divided into two parts: the first part is an account of the events from the suspension of the Chief Justice on March 9, 2007 up to the present time (November 2008); the second part tries to explore the issues and offer some insights into why all this happened.
South Asian History and Culture, 2012
The aim of this article is twofold: first, to examine the veracity of the scholarly and journalis... more The aim of this article is twofold: first, to examine the veracity of the scholarly and journalistic tendency to equate Pashtun nationalism with Talibanization and second, to explore whether there exists an entity called ‘Pashtun nationalism’ or, if it is, like most other nationalisms, an imagined and mythical construct that defies definition. Herein, the tension between the three identities –
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Educat... more This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. Please check back later for the full article.For decades now, the discourse on women and education by states, governments, non-governmental organizations, and global development agencies has focused overwhelmingly on access. The excessive preoccupation with enrollment rates, dropout rates, and impediments and constraints on women’s access to education has led to a relative neglect of what access is and what kind of access is being provided. Is it benign, empowering, liberating, and emancipating? Or is it rather that the messages transmitted through schooling tend to serve ends other than women’s own agency and empowerment? The case for educating girls and women is often couched in an instrumental vocabulary centered on the idea that it is good for the state, nation, country, motherhood, family, community, economic growth, and development. Such utilitarian arguments overlook the idea...
Human Rights and Peace: Ideas, Laws, Institutions and Movements, 2009
Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 2003
Futures, 2005
In the process of state formation and nation building, states organize the production, organizati... more In the process of state formation and nation building, states organize the production, organization and distribution of social knowledge to construct national collective memory. The tendency is even more pronounced in newly independent states that struggle to build new identities by discarding earlier belongings. When new states are formed by amalgamating diverse regional entities into a single and centralized one, the earlier, older and differentiated identities are expected to be discarded in favour of the new homogenized one. In cases where the new state is carved out of an existing one, the national remembering on each side is divergent-the Parent state mourns the loss and remembers the event as wound in the body politic, and the emerging state celebrates its creation with a sense of pride and triumph achieved through suffering and pain. Competing and rival tales of the partition are then woven in the creation of national memory. This is done by relying heavily on the identity forming subjects such as history (sense of time), civics (a sense of power), and geography (a sense of space), together known as social studies. An important requirement of all states, but particularly new ones, is the construction, elaboration and frequent invocation of 'enemies' across and within national borders. Without enemies lurking everywhere, and as the moral opposites of the self, the Self is hard to define and consolidate. The sense of threat and fear that enemies help evoke, enables the fractured and differentiated self to merge and solidify into a defensive oneness. The state of Pakistan, in this context, is an interesting, but hardly an exceptional case. Designing education for a post-national world becomes a critical task. q
Development in Practice, 2012
Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 2003
Rubina Saigol, 'Ownership or Death: Peasant Farmers' Struggle in the Punjab', Written for: WISCOMP project on Non-Traditional Security, 2003
Human rights, justice, equality, liberty, Rule of Law, fair play, and a just distribution of all ... more Human rights, justice, equality, liberty, Rule of Law, fair play, and a just distribution of all kinds of resources, within and across countries, have become the essential elements of any new definition of security. By definition, security must include personal as well as group, economic as well as political, social as well as cultural.
Rubina Saigol, 'Building Peace: A Liberal Re-Making of the World', SUNY Project on States and Security
The terms ‘peace’, ‘peace-building’, ‘peacemaking’ and ‘peacekeeping’ seem to have become progres... more The terms ‘peace’, ‘peace-building’, ‘peacemaking’ and ‘peacekeeping’ seem to have become progressively vague with increasing usage in public, political and academic discourses. The concept of peace remains elusive, occasionally complex and often contested. Militarily imposed peace by a state can be viewed by a sub- national group as repression, as a silencing of dissent. Often, peace by one party becomes the basis of conflict for another when the terms are perceived as unjust. This is the reason that peace treaties so often become the stimulus for the next war, as for example, the Treaty of Versailles, imposed by the victors of the First World War became one of the reasons for the Second World War.
Rubina Saigol, 'The multiple self: interfaces between Pashtun nationalism and religious conflict on the frontier', South Asian History and Culture, Routledge , 2012
The aim of this article is twofold: first, to examine the veracity of the scholarly and journalis... more The aim of this article is twofold: first, to examine the veracity of the scholarly and journalistic tendency to equate Pashtun nationalism with Talibanization and second, to explore whether there exists an entity called ‘Pashtun nationalism’ or, if it is, like most other nationalisms, an imagined and mythical construct that defies definition. Herein, the tension between the three identities – Muslim, Pashtun and Pakistani – never at total ease with one another historically, has risen to the point where these aspects of the self compete for primacy.
Rubina Saigol, 'His Rights, Her Duties: Citizen and Mother in the Civics Discourse', (Bethune School), (Hurights) and (Sage) , 2001
A state attempting to forge a unified identity in the midst of a challenging diversity, tends to ... more A state attempting to forge a unified identity in the midst of a challenging diversity, tends to create those who belong (insiders), and those who do not belong within the selfhood of the state/nation nexus (outsiders). Insiders usually have full citizenship with all the attendant rights that belong to citizens, while outsiders tend to become systematically excluded from various rights on the basis of some characteristic that differentiates between them and the insiders. This characteristic may be religious belief, gender, ethnic difference or some other marker of identity that is perceived as alien or Other of the nation/state.
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‘His Rights/Her Duties: Citizen and Mother in the Civics Discourse',
Saigol Indian Journal of Gender Studies,10: 379-404. New Delhi: Sage. 2003
‘His Rights/Her Duties: Citizen and Mother in the Civics Discourse' Human Rights Education in Schools. Vol. 5. Osaka: Hurights Osaka. 2002.
‘His Rights/Her Duties: Citizen and Mother in the Civics Discourse', in Education and Empowerment: Women in South Asia. Bethune School Praktani Samiti. pp. 29-74. 2001.