Events

Upcoming Events

Apr
10

Eclectic Geographies of Tamil Music

On April 10, 2025 at 12:00 am
Apr
21

Memorial for Marriott McKim

On April 21, 2025 at 12:00 am
Apr
25
May
08

South Asia Seminar: Title TBA

On May 8, 2025 at 5:00 pm
May
09

Memorial for Norman Zide

On May 9, 2025 at 12:00 pm
May
21
May
22
May
23

2025 Chicago Tamil Forum: Tamil Horizons and Borders

From May 23, 2025 9:00 am to May 24, 2025 4:00 pm
May
29

Conference in Honor of Muzaffar Alam

From May 29, 2025 9:00 am to May 30, 2025 7:00 pm

Southern Asia Seminar: Access to Power: Electricity and the Infrastructural State in Pakistan

April 6, 2023; 12:30pm

Foster 103

Ijlal Naqvi

Associate Professor of Sociology, Associate Dean (Curriculum and Teaching), School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University 

Despite prioritization by successive governments, targeted reforms shaped by international development actors, and featuring prominently in Chinese Belt and Road investments, the Pakistani power sector continues to stifle economic and social life across the country. Why? Looking through the lens of the electrical power sector, Access to Power reveals how Pakistan actually works, and to whose benefit.