Creative Time Summit 2024 | Karachi LaJamia

ABOUT THIS SECTION
Shahana Rajani discusses the work of Karachi LaJamia, an ongoing collaborative project at the intersections of infrastructural violence and ecological resistance in Karachi, Pakistan. She highlights tactics of resistance by local communities amidst erasure of Indigenous ecological knowledge, State occupation of farmland, militarization of universities.

ABOUT KARACHI LAJAMIA
Karachi LaJamia was founded by Shahana Rajani and Zahra Malkani in 2015, and is a nomadic space for exploring radical pedagogies in Pakistan. They facilitate site-specific courses and collaborative research projects to explore the intersections of militarism, land accumulation, climate crisis, Indigenous dispossession, and knowledge production in Karachi. For texts written and recommended by Rajani and Malkani, focused on ecological knowledge, revolutionary voices in Pakistani socio-political history, visit the Summit Reader.