Hasan H. Karrar - CERP

Hasan H. Karrar

Hasan Karrar received his PhD in East Asian Studies from McGill University, where he trained as a specialist of China and Central Asia. His current writing focuses on bazaars and markets in Central Asia and China’s border regions, inquiring what these ubiquitous public spaces reveal about the economies and political structures in which they operate. He has also published widely on transnational connections and geopolitical alignments between China, Central Asia, and north Pakistan that register variously in local histories and affects, multilateral initiatives, and curated Silk Road imaginaries. Broadly, he is interested in development, governance, and securitization on state peripheries, as well as the deployment and representation of Chinese economic and strategic power, including how Chinese authority responds to—and is contoured by—ground realities in countries where China is pursuing partnership. He serves as the co-lead of the British Academy global convening programme Chinese Global Orders. His research on informal markets and trade in Central Asia and the Caucasus has received generous support from the Volkswagen Foundation. Additionally, he is a member of the editorial board of Asian Anthropology, the advisory board of the International Quarterly of Asian Studies, and the academic committee of the Asian Borderlands Research Network. In the past, he has served as department chair, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at LUMS, and has had visiting affiliations with institutions in Canada and China. His Google Scholar page can be found here. For his writings, many of them can be found on his page, but he encourages sending a request email if something specific is not uploaded.

Hasan H. Karrar

Hasan Karrar received his PhD in East Asian Studies from McGill University, where he trained as a specialist of China and Central Asia. His current writing focuses on bazaars and markets in Central Asia and China’s border regions, inquiring what these ubiquitous public spaces reveal about the economies and political structures in which they operate. He has also published widely on transnational connections and geopolitical alignments between China, Central Asia, and north Pakistan that register variously in local histories and affects, multilateral initiatives, and curated Silk Road imaginaries. Broadly, he is interested in development, governance, and securitization on state peripheries, as well as the deployment and representation of Chinese economic and strategic power, including how Chinese authority responds to—and is contoured by—ground realities in countries where China is pursuing partnership. He serves as the co-lead of the British Academy global convening programme Chinese Global Orders. His research on informal markets and trade in Central Asia and the Caucasus has received generous support from the Volkswagen Foundation. Additionally, he is a member of the editorial board of Asian Anthropology, the advisory board of the International Quarterly of Asian Studies, and the academic committee of the Asian Borderlands Research Network. In the past, he has served as department chair, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at LUMS, and has had visiting affiliations with institutions in Canada and China. His Google Scholar page can be found here. For his writings, many of them can be found on his page, but he encourages sending a request email if something specific is not uploaded.

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Hasan H. Karrar

Hasan Karrar received his PhD in East Asian Studies from McGill University, where he trained as a specialist of China and Central Asia. His current writing focuses on bazaars and markets in Central Asia and China’s border regions, inquiring what these ubiquitous public spaces reveal about the economies and political structures in which they operate. He has also published widely on transnational connections and geopolitical alignments between China, Central Asia, and north Pakistan that register variously in local histories and affects, multilateral initiatives, and curated Silk Road imaginaries. Broadly, he is interested in development, governance, and securitization on state peripheries, as well as the deployment and representation of Chinese economic and strategic power, including how Chinese authority responds to—and is contoured by—ground realities in countries where China is pursuing partnership. He serves as the co-lead of the British Academy global convening programme Chinese Global Orders. His research on informal markets and trade in Central Asia and the Caucasus has received generous support from the Volkswagen Foundation. Additionally, he is a member of the editorial board of Asian Anthropology, the advisory board of the International Quarterly of Asian Studies, and the academic committee of the Asian Borderlands Research Network. In the past, he has served as department chair, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at LUMS, and has had visiting affiliations with institutions in Canada and China. His Google Scholar page can be found here. For his writings, many of them can be found on his page, but he encourages sending a request email if something specific is not uploaded.