Centre for International Peace and Stability
Faculty Tasleem Malik

Tasleem Malik

Assistant Professor
  • Centre for International Peace & Stability
  • 05100000
Summary

PhD in IR with specialization in Central Asian Studies. Research Interests: Discourse Analysis, Theories of International Relations, Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Achille Mbembe, Refugees and Migrant Studies, Post Structuralism, Non Traditional Security Threats, Hydro politics, Politics of exceptionalism, Identity politics, Border Studies and Frontier Studies, Pak-Afghan Borderlands, Deconstruction and Research Methodology.

Academic Background
PhD (International Relations) University of Peshawar September 01, 2017 - July 30, 2021
Honours and Awards
Publications
Beyond occupation: memory, displacement, and the logic of settler control in Kashmir January 09, 2026 GeoJournal - Volume:91, Issue:1, Article Number 9
The Taliban Governmentality: Its Impact on Human Rights in Post-2021 Afghanistan December 25, 2025 International Journal of Pukhtunkhwa - Volume 10, Issue 2, Pages 54-96
Subjects at margins: conceptualizing ‘tribal’ people of ex-FATA in Pakistani newspapers December 19, 2025 Asian Ethnicity - Pages:24
Saintly Tomb Complex as Heterotopias: A Case Study of Roza Shah Burhan (Chiniot) December 02, 2025 Journal of the Punjab University Historical Society - Volume:38, No. 02, Pages:17
Chinese Exceptionalism: The Sino- Centric World and US Threat Perceptions July 10, 2025 Central Asia - Volume:96 (Summer), Pages:16
Civilizational Decline or Intellectual Distortion? Interrogating Lewis’s What Went Wrong? June 30, 2025 The NUST Journal of International Peace & Stability (NJIPS) - Volume:8(2), Pages 85-89
Transgression: Afghan Refugee Women as gelumjum May 07, 2025 Sage Open - Pages 1-11
U.S.-China Strategic Competition: Conventional Deterrence & the Changing Face of Modern Warfare December 02, 2024 The Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences - Volume 32 (2), Pages 161-183
U.S.-China Strategic Competition: Conventional Deterrence & the Changing Face of Modern Warfare December 02, 2024 The Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences - Volume 32(2), Pages 161-183
Business, Family, and Frontier: Reading Family Histories of Frontier Business Community September 23, 2024 The Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences - Volume 32, No. 1, Pages 28-50
A Foucauldian reading of ‘Technologies of the Self’ in Anatole France’s novel Thaïs December 31, 2023 Journal of Humanities, Social and Management Sciences - Volume 4(2), Pages 96-109
The epistemicide in Afghanistan: an analysis of Taliban’s policies towards national and cultural symbols December 31, 2023 Liberal Arts and Social Sciences International Journal (LASSIJ) - Volume 7, No. 2, Pages 61-60
Theater of Public Punishment in Pakistan: A Discourse Analysis of Demand for Public Hanging June 15, 2022 Sage Open - Volume:12, Issue:2, Pages 1-12
Foucauldian biopower, homo sacer, and resistance under the Taliban rule in Afghanistan June 30, 2021 Liberal Arts and Social Sciences International Journal (LASSIJ) - Volume 5, No. 1, Pages 582-596
Colonial Bio-Politics and Medical Mission in NWFP: A Case of Dr. Pennell of Bannu Medical Mission September 26, 2020 FWU Journal of Social Sciences - Volume 14, No.3, Pages 1-13
The International Humanitarian Law and Refugees – Security Nexus in Pakistan August 01, 2019 Lessons from Pakistan and Beyond ;Refugee Crises - Chapter 15, Pages 162-179
Doing Gender, Agency and Deviance: A Case Study of Women Smugglers in Peshawar July 01, 2019 Pakistan Journal of Criminology - Volume 11, No. 3, Pages 15-28
Pak-Afghan Water Issue: A Case for Benefit-Sharing June 30, 2019 Policy Perspectives - Volume 16, No. 1, Pages 77-98
Conferences
Settler Colonial Project in Indian-Occupied Kashmir: Insights from 1989 Kashmiri Refugees in Azad Jammu and Kashmir April 22, 2025 - April 23, 2025 Maira Safdar, Tasleem Malik, International Conference on Migration, Mobility and Belonging,Department of Anthropology Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad
Specter of Waste in Pakistan: Colonial and Postcolonial Images December 05, 2016 - December 09, 2016 Tasleem Malik, Faiz Ali, Asian History, Culture and Environment: Vernacular and Oriental Paradigms
Visiting Fcaulty Iqra University , Islambad October 01, 2023 - August 30, 2024
Visiting Faculty National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaide Azam University October 01, 2023 - September 30, 2024
VF Pir Mehar Ali Shah Arid Agricultural university, Rawalpindi September 20, 2023 - January 30, 2024
BPS 18 Govt College Women University, Sialkot March 01, 2017 - October 30, 2017
Coordinator and Research Assistant Gilgit Baltistan Policy Insitute June 01, 2013 - October 30, 2014
Training Instructor(and Resource Person ) PTV June 10, 2008 - November 30, 2010