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Huda Javaid

Room: 130.03.14
Telephone: +49 (0)6221 54-15248
E-Mail: huda.javaid@uni-heidelberg.de
Office hours: upon appointment

Research focus

Political ecology
Human Geography
Development
Community change/ Social change
Environmental impact assessment
Peripheral urbanization

Regional Focus: Pakistan

Workshops/Seminars/Conferences

  • 2nd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (SMUS Conference), Brazil, September 8-10, 2022. 'Ethnographic account of winners and losers of land commodification in peri urban Lahore, Pakistan'.
  • International Conference: 12th Annual Meeting of the AK Südasien in Bonn, January 21, 2022. Can money compensate? Land commodification, urbnanization and social change in peri-urban villages, Lahore.
  • International Conference on Transforming Peri-urban Futures by University of Bonn, January 18-19, 2022: Can money compensate? Land commodification, urbnanization and social change in peri-urban villages, Lahore.
  • Selected as a writer for the Vasl Social Science writing mentorship program: In the time of pandemic/ Waba kay daur main (WKDM).
  • International Conference on The Environmental History of Lahore, conducted by the University of Southampton, December 15, 2020. Can Money Compensate: gain and loss accounts from villages of the urbanizing area southeast Lahore.
  • Second International Conference on Production of Nature, at Lahore School of Economics, December 2016. Selected for paper presentation on socio-ecological change in peri-urban villages of Lahore due to suburban sprawl with the title: 'Can money compensate: stories from suburban frontier'.
  • International Conference on Urbanism, Exclusion and Change in South Asia, at LUMS. Nominated panel discussant, March 2016. 'Can money compensate: stories from suburban frontier'
  • International Conference on Small Cities, at Lahore School of Economics, April 2015.
  • Climate Crisis in Pakistan – A Behavioral Approach, Punjab University Lahore, 2011.
  • Workshop on GIS, Punjab University Lahore, 2010: The Environment and our Ecological Footprint.

    • Publications

  • "Why are villages the Covid-free zones? A study of the relation between health and environment from peri-urban villages, Lahore". In: (2023) Essays on Governance, Identity and Marginalisation' edited by Saba Gul Khattak.

    • Teaching

    Winter term 2022/2023: Political Ecology of Urbanization (Hauptseminar)