Javairia Shahid
Ph.D. student, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), Columbia University
Javairia Shahid is a Ph.D. student in Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), with a joint affiliation at the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS). She holds a graduate degree in architectural history and theory from GSAPP. Her research focuses on the history of knowledge production and epistemic labor under colonialism in South Asia and the Indian Ocean world. This work highlights the disjunctions and entanglements between the aestheticization of landscapes, the pecuniary production of land as resource, and the formation of human and nonhuman subjectivities.
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