CMENAS Colloquium Series. Muslim Pathways: Ethics of Cohabitation, Assembly, and Informality

Drawing upon field research in different Muslim cities, Professor Haines analyzes the diverse ways modernity reshapes community, belonging, and cohabitation through the mapping and policing of a diversity of borders: between modernity and tradition, centers and peripheries, wealthy and poor, as well as between national territories. He questions how crossing borders and disrupting normative claims to purifying the ‘in-group’ become contested aspirations and practices to forge new kinds of community, ones often rooted in Islamic ideals and ethics.

Chad Haines is a cultural anthropologist and assistant professor of Religious Studies and Global Studies at Arizona State University. He earned his PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2000). Haines’ publications include Nation, Territory, and Globalization in Pakistan: Traversing the Margins (Routledge 2012) that analyzes the mapping of marginal spaces within the nation-making processes of Pakistan, particularly focusing on the remote, mountainous northern region of Gilgit-Baltistan. He is co-editor of Women and Peace in the Islamic World: Gender, Agency, and Influence (I.B. Taurus 2015) and the forthcoming People’s Peace: Prospects for a Human Future. He is currently completing a manuscript titled: Muslim Pathways: Negotiating Modernity, Religion, and Urbanity.

Before moving to ASU, Haines taught at American University in Cairo (2004-2008) and was a Senior Fulbright Research Fellow in Pakistan (2009). He held a number of visiting and research positions at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill’s University Center for International Studies, at Duke University’s Center for South Asian Studies, the Center for Civilizational Dialogue in the University of Malaysia, and the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at ASU.

For CMENAS students only
1:30-2 pm — CMENAS students workshop/discussion with the lecturer/professor.