Dr Fatima Tassadiq

Fatima Tassadiq is a Post-Doctoral Research associate at the Urban Institute. She joined the institute to work with Dr Jonathan Silver on his GlobalCORRIDOR project that investigates the role of infrastructure corridors in shaping the urbanisation process and inequality in a series of global regions.

Her research interests center on the political ecology of cities and infrastructures. Her doctoral research took the case of the Orange Line Metro Train in Lahore, Pakistan to examine the ways in which construction of large infrastructural projects (un)make the postcolonial city and its citizens. 

Fatima has a doctorate in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania (2022), a Masters from Columbia University (2015), and a bachelor’s degree from the Lahore University of Management Sciences (2011).

Publications

Tassadiq, F. (2024). Colonial laws, Postcolonial Infrastructures: Land Acquisition, Urban Informality, and Politics of Infrastructural Development in Pakistan. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 42(3), 401-421.

Tassadiq, F. (2022). Producing Dispossessed and Humanitarian Subjects: Land Acquisition and Compensation Policies in Lahore, Pakistan. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 45(2), 240-256.