Environmental Justice: Perspectives from Pakistan

Ahmad Rafay Alam (Yale World Fellow 2014) is an environment lawyer and partner at Saleem, Alam & Co., a law firm specialization in the water, energy, natural resources and urban infrastructure sectors. Mr. Alam lectures business and environmental law at the Lahore University of Management Sciences and modules on water, environment and climate change at the National Institute of Management and Lahore School of Economics. He is the Lead Course Instructor on Water Law at the Punjwani Hisaar Water Institute at the NED University and serves as an Advisor to Air Quality Asia, as a Member of the Hisaar Foundation Think Tank on the Rational Use of Water.

Mubbashir Rizvi is an Assistant Professor in Cultural Anthropology at Georgetown University. He holds a Ph.D. in Social-Cultural Anthropology from the University of Texas-Austin. His research and teaching interests span social movements, environmental justice, indigenous and peasant land rights, postcolonial militarization, race and empire. His publications include The Ethics of Staying: Social Movements and Land Rights in Pakistan (Stanford University Press May 2019) and a research essay, "Soul to Soul: Black Expressive Cultures in the Fight Against the Muslim Ban." He also has a forthcoming publication, "Decolonizing Georgetown through Memory Walks."

Maira Hayat works at the intersection of bureaucracy, law and environment. She is currently a Lecturer at Stanford Global Studies, teaching classes on environmental anthropology and climate change, and working on her first book manuscript. This fall she will join the University of Notre Dame as an Assistant Professor of Environment and Peace Studies.

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