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Hassan Javid is an Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of Culture and Media Studies at UFV.

Prior to joining UFV, Hassan held academic positions at the Lahore University of Management Sciences and at the London School of Economics.

His work focuses on the legacies of colonialism in South Asia, focusing on processes of democratization and the mechanisms through which elite power is reproduced.

PhD Sociology - London School of Economics

MSc Political Sociology -  London School of Economics

Bsc Hons. in Social Sciences - Lahore University of Management Sciences

SOC 101                Introductory Sociology
SOC 201                Key ideas in Sociology
SOC 205                Comparative Societies
SOC 247                Culture of Capitalism
SOC 250                Sociology of Development: The Global South
SOC 313                Agriculture and Rural Life
SOC 350                Classical Sociological Thought
SOC 399K              Special Topics in SOC II: Work and Occupations
SOC 430                Knowledge, Power, Science, and Society
SOC/ANTH 470G   Race & Racism: Colonialism's Accumulated Effects

Dr. Javid's work focuses on the legacies of colonialism in South Asia, focusing on processes of democratization and the mechanisms through which elite power is reproduced.

Colonialism
Democratization
Pakistan
Punjab
Elections

Javid, H., and Malik, A., 2023, “South Asia’s Partitions and the Limiting of Progressive Possibilities in Pakistan”, in Asad Ahmed and Kamran A. Ali (eds.) Towards People’s Histories in Pakistan, London: Bloomsbury.

Javid, H., 2021, “The Limits of Possibilities of Religious Politics: The Case of the Tehreek-i-Labbaik in Pakistani Punjab”, in Sociological Bulletin, Vol. 70, No. 4, pp. 502-521.

Javid, H., and Martin, N., 2020, “Democracy and Discrimination: Comparing Caste-Based Politics in Indian and Pakistani Punjab”. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 43(1), pp.136-151.

Javid, H., and Mufti, M., 2020, “Candidate-Party Linkages: Why Do Candidates Stick with Losing Parties?”, in Mariam Mufti, Nilofer Siddiqui, and Sahar Shafqat (eds.), Pakistan’s Political Parties: Against All Odds, Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, pp. 144-161.

Javid, H., and Mufti, M., 2020, “Electoral Manipulation or Astute Electoral Strategy? Explaining the Results of Pakistan’s 2018 Election”, in Asian Affairs: An American Review, Vol. 47, No. 4.

Javid, H., 2020, “Winning ‘Friends’ and ‘Influencing’ People: Democratic Consolidation and Authoritarianism in Punjab”, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 58(1), pp. 139-159.

Javid, H., 2019, “Democracy and Patronage in Pakistan”, in Matthew McCartney and S. Akbar Zaidi (eds.) New Perspectives on Pakistan’s Political Economy: State, Class and Social Change, New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, pp. 217-240.

Javid, H., 2019, “Patronage, Populism, and Protest: Student Politics in Pakistani Punjab”, in SAMAJ: South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, Vol. 22, pp. 1-19.

Javid, H., 2017, “The Politics of Space in Punjab’s Canal Colonies”, International Journal of South Asian Studies, 9, pp. 9-36.

Javid, H., 2015, “Elections, Bureaucracy and the Law: The Reproduction of Landed Power in Post-Colonial Punjab ”, in Roger Long, Ian Talbot, Gurharpal Singh, and Yunus Samad (eds.)Beyond Islam and Security: State and Nation-Building in Pakistan, London: Routledge, pp. 35-59

Javid, H., 2011, “Class, Power, and Patronage: Landowners and Politics in Punjab”, History and Anthropology, 22(3), pp. 337-369.