Marcelo, an Assistant Professor at Habib University, is currently writing his Ph.D dissertation in History and Political Cultures at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. His research analyzes how anti-communism influenced the relations between the Brazilian military regime and the government of Chiang Kai-shek in the Republic of China from 1964 to 1974. Marcelo’s research interests include fascism, Nazism, fascist ideas in interwar Brazil, Brazilian authoritarian nationalism, Brazilian foreign policy, history of international relations, right wing movements in Brazil, Brazilian military regime, military regimes in Latin America and Asia under a comparative approach, and post-colonial history.

Tane Moleta specialises in developing and utilising mixed reality tools within the field of architecture. His research and practice focus on enhancing the immersive experience by integrating real-time real-world phenomena with digital space. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Wajahat Malik is a filmmaker who has extensively documented the Indus River and its myriad cultures. ZAB, an artist and curator, founded the Bhulan Foundation to understand the cultural, ecological and social history of the Indus River through the eyes of one of Pakistan’s most elusive animals, the Indus River Dolphin. He has shown work, curated exhibitions globally, and spoken at Columbia University, UC Berkeley, NYU, Stanford and the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture.

Ahmad Rafay Alam is an environment lawyer, Yale World Fellow, and Partner at Saleem, Alam & Co. Mr. Alam currently serves as the Chairman of the Lahore Waste Management Company, Vice Chairman of the Urban Unit and Member of the Punjab Environment Protection Council.

Dr Zahra Hussain is an Architect and Cultural Geographer based in Pakistan. Her research focuses on architecture and sustainable development particularly in the mountain landscapes of Northern Pakistan. She has designed and curated community heritage museums in post conflict area of Kashmir and Laspur in North West Pakistan. She leads the ‘Academy for Democracy’ project exploring forms of engagement with changing landscapes. She has been involved in several UKRI (United Kingdom Research Institutes) funded projects committed to exploring forms of resilience in times of climate crisis affecting the cultural landscapes in South and Central Asia. Currently, Dr Hussain has received an IIAS Fellowship to spend a period of ten months (May 2023 – March 2024) doing research at IIAS.

Tayeba Batool is an academic and writer from Rawalpindi, currently based in the United States. She is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on the politics and practices of urban and environmental governance in Pakistan. In her writing, she draws upon creative ways of understanding agency and justice among human and nonhuman worlds.

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Jehanzeb Shoaib is currently an Adjunct Faculty at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). His research-led creative practice investigates the agency of design to highlight spatial-temporal boundaries, which lie at the intersections of geography and critical infrastructure. His practice employs decolonial design narratives, counter-mapping and speculative worldbuilding as tools across various mediums and scales to advocate for social and environmental concerns.

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Aasim Sajjad Akhtar is an Associate Professor of Political Economy at the National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University. He was previously at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). ASA works on diverse subjects such as state theory, informality, colonial history, and social movements. He has published widely in journals such as Third World Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Journal of Peasant Studies and Critical Asian Studies. He is also the author of three books, most recently The Politics of Common Sense: State, Society and Culture in Pakistan (Cambridge, 2018). ASA also writes a syndicated column for Pakistan’s newspaper-of-record, DAWN.