Student Profile

Mr Muhammad Aurang Zeb Mughal, BA, MSc

Member of the Department of Anthropology

Biography

Aurang Zeb obtained MSc in anthropology from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad in 2006. His master dissertation focused on the changing perception of time in rural areas of Dera Ghazi Khan District, Pakistan. He then worked at the World Bank on impact evaluation of a large microfinance program in Pakistan. He also worked with Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund on capacity building programs for the communities and staff of local microfinance institutions.

PhD Research

His PhD research started in January 2009 as Durham Doctoral Fellowship. The research focuses on the cultural perception of time and space in relation to social change in rural areas of Lodhran District, Pakistan. Fieldwork for this study was carried out in 2010. The study contributes some theoretical and methodological insights to the anthropology of time and space. It analyses some socially embedded concepts of time and space in the rural context, and how these concepts are reflected in everyday life. While investigating various temporal markers and spatial proximities, it explains the social organisation of time and space taking into account a gradual shift from seasonal agricultural to market economy. This study highlights some theoretical and practical insights into the rural social organisation and the community's response to social change.

Indicators of Esteem

Durham Doctoral Fellowship 2009-2011: University of Durham
Best Study Design for Poster Presentation: Anthropology Postgraduate Conference, 16 March 2011, University of Durham
Outstanding Performance Award (Anthropology Postgraduate): Faculty of Social Sciences and Health, University of Durham
RAI/Sutasoma Award: Radcliffe-Brown and Firth Trust Funds for Social Anthropological Research, Royal Anthropological Institute
Convener: Development, Socio-cultural and Political Change in South Asia, 17th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), Manchester, UK (Forthcoming 5-10 August 2013 )
Co-organizer: The Pakistan Workshop 2013: Nation, Region, & Province, 10-12 May 2013. Lake District, UK.
Chair of the Organizing Committee: Royal Anthropological Institute's 1st Annual Postgraduate Conference, 20 September 2011, Department of Anthropology, University of Durham

Editorial Works

Associate Editor: Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability, Vols. 7-9/10. Ray Anderson (ed.), 2012, Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing
Guest Editor: Special Edition on Royal Anthropological Institute's 1st Annual Postgraduate Conference 2011. Durham Anthropology Journal, Vol. 18, Issue 2, 2012, University of Durham
Editorial Board Member: RASAALA: Recreation and Society in Africa, Asia & Latin America, SPREAD Corporation, Canada and University of Guelph (Guest Editor: Special Issue on 'Time and Sports')
Section Editor: New Economies. Imponderabilia, Vol. 4, 2012, University of Cambridge
Editorial Board Member: Journal of Rural Community Psychology, Marshall University
Guest Editor: Special Issue on 'Time and Change'. Omertaa, Vol. 2008, Expeditions: Research in Applied Anthropology

Research Groups

Anthropology in Development
Public Culture in Theory and Practice Research Group

Research Interests

Anthropology of Time and Space: Sociospatial and Sociotemporal Relationships
Anthropology of Pakistan: Religion, Politics, History, Social Change, Climate Change
Development Anthropology: Poverty Alleviation, Sensitivies towards Social Change, and Globalization
Indo-European Languages: Urdu, Saraiki, Punjabi, Sindhi, Persian, Pashto and Balochi
Anthropology of Sports: Temporalities, Spaces and Economies of Sports

Selected Publications

Books: reviews

Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2012). Review of Language, space, and social relationships. eLanguage (27 February).
Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2010). Book Review: The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan, London: Yale University Press, 2007. Political Studies Review 8(1): 143.
Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2010). Reviews of Books/Comptes Rendus: Extraordinary Anthropology: Transformations in the Field, Jean-Guy A. Goulet and Bruce Granville Miller, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 39(2): 310-311.
Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2009). Book Review: India: The Ancient Past: A History of Indian Sub-continent from c. 7000 BC to AD 1200, by Burjor Avari, London, Routledge, 2007. Contemporary South Asia 17(1): 93-94.
Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2009). Book Review: Pakistan: Social and Cultural Transformations in a Muslim Nation. By Mohammad A. Qadeer. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. Pakistan Vision 9(2): 146-148.
Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2008). Comptes rendus/Reviews of books: Opening the Doors of Wonder: Reflections on Religious Rites of Passage, Arthur J. Magida. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2006. 294 p. Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 37(2): 264-265.

Conference papers

Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2012), Temporal rhythm of change in Village Jhokwala, Pakistan: Ethnographic insights from calendars, in Giovanni Bennardo eds, Institute for the Study of the Environment, Sustainability, and Energy, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL., ESE Working Paper No. 1, pp. 61-65.

Essays in edited volumes

Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2013). Bloch, Maurice. In Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia. Reece Jon McGee & Richard L. Warms (eds). New York: Sage Publications.
Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2013). Caspian Sea. In Biomes and Ecosystems: An Encyclopedia. Robert Warren Howarth (ed.). Pasadena, CA: Salem Press. 431-433.
Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2013). Pamir alpine desert and tundra. In Biomes and Ecosystems: An Encyclopedia. Robert Warren Howarth (ed.). Pasadena, CA: Salem Press. 978-980.
Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2013). Persian Gulf desert and semi-desert. In Biomes and Ecosystems: An Encyclopedia. Robert Warren Howarth (ed.). Pasadena, CA: Salem Press. 1000-1002.
Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2012). Brazil. In Native Peoples of the World: An Encyclopedia of Groups, Cultures, and Contemporary Issues. Steven L. Danver (ed.). New York: M. E. Sharpe.
Weiss, Anita M. & Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2012). Pakistan. In Berkshire encyclopedia of sustainability. Kotzé, Louis & Morse, Stephen Great Barrington, Mass.: Berkshire. 9, Afro-Eurasia: Assessing Sustainability: 236-240.
Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2012). Spain. In Native Peoples of the World: An Encyclopedia of Groups, Cultures, and Contemporary Issues. Steven L. Danver (ed.). New York: M. E. Sharpe.
Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2012). Tunisia. In Native Peoples of the World: An Encyclopedia of Groups, Cultures, and Contemporary Issues. Steven L. Danver (ed.). New York: M. E. Sharpe.
Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2011). Harappan Seals. In World History Encyclopedia. Kevin Murray McGeough (ed.). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. 4: 706-707.
Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2011). Mohenjo-daro’s sewers. In World History Encyclopedia. McGeough, Kevin Murray Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. 3: 121-122.
Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2009). Time, absolute. In Encyclopedia of time science, philosophy, theology, and culture. Birx, H. James Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage. 3: 1254-1255.

Journal papers: academic

Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2012). Guest Editorial: RAI's First Annual Postgraduate Conference 2011. Durham Anthropology Journal 18(2): 7-11.
Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2012). Postgraduate Conference 2011: Posters and Presentations. Durham Anthropology Journal 18(1): 7-14.
Handley, Carla S., McClure, Erika & Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2012). RAI’s First Annual Postgraduate Conference. Anthropology Today 28(3): 28-29.
Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2011). Margins and Marginality, Pakistani State and Societies: Pakistan Workshop 2010. Anthropology Today 27(2): 28-29.
Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2008). It will take time for time to change a temporal documentary of change in Sarwar Aali. Omertaa journal for applied anthropology 342-349.

Presentation

Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2013), Saraiki in Punjab and Punjab of Saraikis: Ethnicity, Economics, and Cultural Dynamism in Pakistan, The Pakistan Workshop: Nation, Province and Region, 10–12 May 2013. Pakistan Studies Group, Cumbria, UK.
Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb (2012), Contextualising Conflict: Ties That Bind: Marital Networks and Politics In Punjab, Pakistan, The Ustinov Seminar: Marriage, 09 December 2012. Ustinov College, University of Durham.
Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2012), Cultural Perspectives on Women’s Education in Rural South Punjab, Punjab Research Group, 30 June 2012. Coventry University.
Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2012), Fridays and Sundays: Two weekends in rural Pakistan, One day workshop: It’s the Weekend…, 01 November 2012. University of Manchester.
Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb (2012), From Sickle to Pen: Mobility, Morality, and Rural Women in Pakistan, The Pakistan Workshop: Secularity, Globalisation and Power, 11-13 May 2012. Pakistan Studies Group, The Lake District, UK.
Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2011), Changing Landscapes: Household Space and Sociospatial Relationships in Village Jhokwala, Politics of Space: The Pakistan Workshop, 06-08 May 2011. Pakistan Studies Group, Lake District, UK.
Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2011), Day that Matters: Friday as a Weekday and Weekend in Pakistan, Royal Anthropological Institute's 1st Annual Postgraduate Conference, 20 September 2011. Department of Anthropology, University of Durham.
Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2011), Socioeconomic Development in Time(s): Heading towards Future, Community Connectivities/Temporal Belongings: An Interdisciplinary Residential Workshop, 20-21 June 2011. Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change, University of Manchester.
Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2011), Vision(s) for Development: Journey through Times and Spaces of Jhokwala, Moving Forward: 8th Annual College of Arts and Social Sciences Postgraduate Conference, 20-22 July 2011. University of Aberdeen.
Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2009), Poverty Alleviation: Learning from Time, 5th Session of the ISSC/UNESCO International Summer School, 03-09 September 2009. International Social Science Council/UNESCO, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2009), Time, Space and Socioeconomic Change in Punjab, Dreams, Visions and Nightmares: Between the Imagined and the Real, The Pakistan Workshop, 08-10 May 2009. Pakistan Studies Group, Lake District, UK.
Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2007), Time and Change: A Case Study of Pakistani Village, 4th National Research Conference on Emerging Sciences, 01 January 2007. Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology, Islamabad.

Theses: masters

Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb. (2006). Perception of Time: A Challenge for Change. Department of Anthropology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. Masters.

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