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Mahvish Ahmad

Mahvish Ahmad is an Assistant Professor of Human Rights and Politics and a Co-Director of LSE Human Rights at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She works on documentary practices in sites of disappearance, fugitive organising under conditions of war, shifting techniques of imperial and sovereign violence, and the material legacies of anti-colonial and left movements, especially in Pakistan. She’s a cofounder of Revolutionary Papers (with C. Morgenstern, K. Benson), Archives of the Disappeared (with M. Qato, Y. Navaro, C. Morgenstern), and Tanqeed (with M. Tahir). She’s also a UK-based trustee of the South Asian Research and Resource Centre.