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<p><i>Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere</i> by Omar Kasmani is a significant and welcome contribution to queer studies, South Asian studies and interdisciplinary scholarship on affect, religion, art, history and political belonging. Rather than treating Pakistan as a peripheral case to be slotted into pre-existing frameworks of queer theory, the volume asks what happens when Pakistan—or, more precisely, Pak*<i>stan</i>—itself becomes a site from which the terms of queer enquiry are reconsidered. Across an introduction, fourteen chapters, and an afterword, the collection brings together memoir, ethnography, literary criticism, visual art, poetry, film analysis, archival work, and political reflection. Its central ideas of desire and <i>mehfil</i> structure the volume as a plural, relational, formally heterogeneous assembly rather than a linear or doctrinal argument. The essays show how sacred intimacy, multilingual illegibility, khwajasara temporalities, diasporic belonging, digital sociability, women’s fantasy, and Kashmir politics unsettle dominant assumptions about sexuality, visibility, history, and liberation. Simultaneously, the formal richness of the collection produces a degree of unevenness, and its conceptual threads are sometimes more suggestive than fully developed. Pakistan Desires is a substantial and intellectually generative work that extends the ways queer thought can be located, translated, and imagined in the Global South.</p>

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Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere, Edited by Omar Kasmani

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    2026年7月20日

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  • Zubair Hussain

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Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere by Omar Kasmani is a significant and welcome contribution to queer studies, South Asian studies and interdisciplinary scholarship on affect, religion, art, history and political belonging. Rather than treating Pakistan as a peripheral case to be slotted into pre-existing frameworks of queer theory, the volume asks what happens when Pakistan—or, more precisely, Pak*stan—itself becomes a site from which the terms of queer enquiry are reconsidered. Across an introduction, fourteen chapters, and an afterword, the collection brings together memoir, ethnography, literary criticism, visual art, poetry, film analysis, archival work, and political reflection. Its central ideas of desire and mehfil structure the volume as a plural, relational, formally heterogeneous assembly rather than a linear or doctrinal argument. The essays show how sacred intimacy, multilingual illegibility, khwajasara temporalities, diasporic belonging, digital sociability, women’s fantasy, and Kashmir politics unsettle dominant assumptions about sexuality, visibility, history, and liberation. Simultaneously, the formal richness of the collection produces a degree of unevenness, and its conceptual threads are sometimes more suggestive than fully developed. Pakistan Desires is a substantial and intellectually generative work that extends the ways queer thought can be located, translated, and imagined in the Global South.