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Zara Imran
BSc (Honors) Social Development & Policy
Aspiration Statement
I want to have a career in academia and to pursue my postgraduate studies in English Literature
Core Skills
- Qualitative Research
- Academic Writing
- Creative Writing
- Research
Academic Awards / Achievements
- Dean's List Spring 2021
- Dean's List Fall 2020
Experience
Leadership / Meta-curricular
- Tezhib Managerial Editor
Internship / Volunteer Work
- Research Associate — Global Health Directorate [January 2021 — April 2021]
- Research Assistant — Arif Hasan [July 2020 — August 2020]
Publications / Creative Projects
- Tezhib Volume I, "Female Mobility: Women Traversing Gendered Public Spaces in Karachi"
- Dawn Newspaper, "Greater Visibility"
- Dawn Newspaper, "Precedent from History"
- The Desi Collective, "An Unremembered Past"
- Crack The Spine, "Maskless-ness
Final Year Project
Project Title
Puar’s theorization of the biopolitics of debility
Description
This project uses Puar’s theorization of the biopolitics of debility. I use this concept in relation to Butler’s ideas on precarity and Agamben’s theorization of bare life to chart out a yet undefined space through which neoliberal systems of recognition can be threatened. This dismantling is premised on recognition amongst communities, building solidarities and affinities amongst precarious and debilitated subjects. I am exploring the realization of these affinities through a literary analysis of Rankine’s Citizen and Sacco’s Palestine.